Tina Fey is a feminist. That much becomes almost immediately evident after picking up Bossypants. As I had always hoped she would be, Fey is all about the sisterhood. Her autobiography tells us never to be tricked into believing women are in competition with each other or to buy into the idea that there’s a ...
Many of you have wracked your brains (and Wikipedia) searching for the identities of the amazing women pictured in our photo album. By now the obvious ones have been named, but the contest is far from over. Remember that you get points for comments containing new biographical information, and every person who adds something will ...
Why do people keep insisting women can’t be funny? It’s getting to be beyond a joke. “Very few female comedians can pull off funny funny,” muses a ridiculous article in the Herald Sun, Melbourne’s highest circulating newspaper. The article, a review of Jen Brister’s stand-up comedy, continues by informing us the show is “surprisingly, quite ...
Tina Fey has announced that she’s five months pregnant with her second child. She apparently struggled with the idea of a second child but eventually decided to do it because a bigger family is a good idea. She didn’t want her 5-year-old daughter to be the only only child in Manhattan. And she wanted someone ...
So chicks dig scars. That’s what I was told growing up, and I assumed that meant scars on guys, usually in football movies. But who are really famous for their scars? Women.
The Other Man
She’s one of America’s Most Beautiful, one of the Most Powerful Women, A Real American, Changing the World and a Cultural Necessity. She’s in charge of the best show on television and is racking up awards faster than Blerg can assemble the trophy cases. In fact, hardly a month goes by anymore that you don’t ...
A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
Mack // I am so happy for Tina Fey, a famous comedian from Saturday Night Live, who has just won an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Sarah Palin, the American Republican Vice Presidential candidate from the 2008 election.
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