Tag Archives: Jezebel
In Defense of Hugo
To the average person, the recent blow-up about Hugo Schwyzer’s feminist involvement has registered on the pop culture spectrum somewhere below what I had for breakfast. But, if you run in the Facebook and Twitter circles I run in, the … Continue reading
Sunday Scraps 44
1. POLITICS: Presidential candidacies meet the logic of online dating at USA Today. Choose your issues, rank their importance, see who your dream date to the White House is. 2. TWEEN: Who doesn’t love a precocious kid spouting eloquent, passionate, … Continue reading
Filed under Advertising, Body Image, Books, Gender, Hollywood, Media, Politics, Really Good Writing by Other People, Sex
What Andrej Pejic and a little girl in Maine have in common
Two excellent examples today to remind us that our notions of gender are not nearly as fixed as many people would like to pretend. The first is an amazing profile of a Maine family in the Boston Globe, “Led by … Continue reading
Filed under Body Image, Gender
Sunday Scraps 36
1. HAIR: I love this essay on Jezebel by Autumn Whitefield about the social and personal implications of short hair on women. Maybe, as she suggests, the expressed male preference for long hair comes from conditioning, not from some sort … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Body Image, Gender, Hollywood, Media, Politics, Really Good Writing by Other People
The Unexpected Sexualization of Halloween
I know what you’re thinking. At this point there’s nothing unexpected about the sexualization of Halloween. Every year, parents pen the requisite outraged editorials about slutty nurse costumes for 8-year-olds and Jezebel publishes their favorite sexy costumes (this year’s winner? … Continue reading
Filed under Sex
Padlocks and Keys as Analogies for Sex. Ick.
Super cool news to be filed under dreams-do-come-true: My GMP piece Monday, the letter to my brother about hook-up culture was reposted on Jezebel yesterday. To top it all off, it was the featured story in Jezebel’s daily email. The … Continue reading
Filed under Gender, Republished!, Sex
Guest Post: Jezebel’s (Unscientific) Science Writing
You know how sometimes I rant about the conflation of correlation and causation? Sara is responsible for that. My reading-heavy, numbers-light education was a little lax on all that science-y stuff. Hers was not. She pointed out something really fascinating … Continue reading
Filed under Food, Guest Posts, Media
We’re on Jezebel today!
Check it out! Best comment thus far, from DarlingGirl: “I suspect all of these people are just a bunch of never-nudes” Related Post: The first Jezebel post (“The Helen Mirren Hypothesis), courtesy of Smart Girls, Stupid Things. Related Post: Buying … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Politics, Republished!, Sex
Backing Off the Biebz
Last week, I took the cue of the feminist literati (ahem, Jezebel) and jumped on the Justin Bieber hate-wagon after a quote from his Rolling Stone interview was released: “I really don’t believe in abortion,” Bieber says. “It’s like killing … Continue reading
