There’s a lot to like about True Blood — its sense of humor, the best opening credits in TV history — but have you noticed how nearly all the powerful roles on the show belong to women? I don’t think any other show has ever been so consistent and unfailing in making women the drivers ...
I started this post wanting to trash Lady Gaga. I can’t understand all the unconditional love (especially the folks at Jezebel, for whom feminism is a job), the flattering comparisons to other musicians, the obvious fashion-marketing-ploy-turned-philosophy. In other words, it would be very easy for me to hate her. It would be even easier if ...
It’s a good thing that Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail, following the I’ve-lost-count violation of her DUI probation. I was beginning to lose faith even in the celebrity justice system.
I was going to write about the wonders of sport that so many women miss out on, but I was too distracted by the World Cup. Luckily, women are not as hypnotized by this event so journalist extraordinaire Claire Daly was able to take the reins this week to explain why it’s just a game. (I’m ...
The folks over at Jezebel, intrepidly patrolling the rumor mills and airwaves to protect us against the march of sexism, have weighed and measured The Daily Show – and woe to us, they found it lacking. Unfortunately, sexism is only one factor on a long list that will make Jon Stewart’s second decade in the ...
First of all, save your breath — I agree with you, Cougar Town isn’t a good show. It has its moments, but 30 Rock this ain’t. A teacher of mine once told me that you can’t judge anything properly without finding its saving grace. It took a little digging (“Scrubs is cancelled?”) but I think ...
Excellent news! Everyone’s favorite vampire-mythology show for adults comes back to TVs tomorrow night. There’s a lot to like about True Blood — its sense of humor, the best opening credits in TV history — but have you noticed how nearly all the powerful roles on the show belong to women? I don’t think any ...
So who would you rather have a long, honest conversation with: Megan Fox or Kristen Stewart? I already know whom 90% of teenage boys would choose. And I know where the girls would probably lean.
Except for the Thatcherian voice towards the end detachedly mentioning that “YOU could be pregnant, ‘late women’” (paraphrased), it’s really simple to misinterpret this ad. So don’t ever mute your TV again.
This morning, Jordan Romero must be the happiest 13-year-old boy on the face of the earth. Having become the youngest person ever to summit Mount Everest, by two whole years, he can certainly tell all of his middle-school friends how he cheated death while climbing the world’s tallest mountain. But why does he need to ...
Dear Madame X, I have just started seeing this girl. She seems great, but she recently told me she...
Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved arrived in my hands via a public library, when I was a broke teenager with...
My attention was drawn this week to an article about the reaction at a Canadian university to proposals to...
Airport security. Bloody nuisance. Also a conspiracy designed to subjugate women. Allow me to elaborate. Despite flying quite a...
The Cannes film festival has kicked off this week with controversy over the lack of films made by women...
Dear Madame X, I seem to be only attracted to men who are macho assholes. I like them at...
When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, the term sexualized violence wasn’t in use. The distinction between sexualized...
Skincare. Not so very long ago, a man would have been mocked mercilessly for using just the word, never...
