Activism
Of Kegels, Kotex, and Kate Moss: A Look at February's Women's Glossies
Allure
Irony of the month: While the Editor’s Letter says, “Shut up and eat,” and bemoans the fact that women are always “self-surveilling” their caloric intake, the mag gives information about: “Aromatrim” products (you smell them and they make you eat less); a new diet pill; “liposhaving” (... Read more »
Whee! #2: Some Cockle-Warming Tidbits
Here's to Roseanne's succinct feminist history lesson...
Seventeen is actually giving good advice these days. Question: "I masturbate often. Am I normal?" Answer: "Completely normal...
3rd Rock from the Sun may be a wholly silly show that underuses the comic talents of Jane Curtin... Read more »
Mad As A Wet Hen #1: A Roundup of Media Affronts
How about that new Taco Bell ad featuring 11-year-old boys on the beach ogling a shapely lifeguard…
Guess what? According to Cosmopolitan you’ll never get a date without duct tape and a “No Trespassing” sign…
When Camille Paglia addresses the defunct pedophilic Calvin... Read more »
Whee! #1: Some Cockle-Warming Tidbits
We love Claire from 90210. She's so brainy; she's so hot. She never plays dumb for the boys and she gets to fuck them anyway...
Yay for the recent changes in Ms. Not that we didn't adore it before, but now we're foaming at the mouth with love...
Good for NBC for making visible the... Read more »
Editors' Letter: Premiere: Introduction
This magazine is about speaking up.
I’ve always been a media junkie. Magazines, movies, television—I love them all and tend to consume them voraciously. But indiscriminate media consumption, maybe more than any other binge, can make you sick.
When I was twelve years old I was looking for... Read more »
Magazines We Hate
Esquire’s annual “Women We Love” feature gives with one hand and takes away with the other. Hidden behind the premise of honoring them, the article puts women firmly in their place by using the traditional patriarchal tool of male approval—rewarding certain traits in the female while disparaging... Read more »
Bitch Male Objectification Rave of the Month: John Travolta
We here at Bitch are in thorough approval of the post-Pulp Fiction Travolta renaissance that has awarded our favorite 1980s cinematic cheese-king some new credibility. Back in our prepubescent days, we wished we could be Olivia Newton-John in Grease, J.T.’s disco-dancing partner in Saturday Night... Read more »
Bait and Switch Sassy
Back in March a horrible thing happened. After a few months of checking the newsstands for my beloved Sassy, wondering what the hell was up and why I couldn’t find it anywhere, suddenly there it was—mutilated almost beyond recognition. Peterson Publishing (they also own Guns & Ammo)... Read more »
Why Don't We Do It on the Road?: Seven Weeks on Tour with Sister Spit
The traveling spoken-word gang Sister Spit started five years ago as a weekly open mike where grrrly-type poets and performers could ply their trade at San Francisco bars and coffeehouses. In 1997, co-ringleader Michelle Tea, author of the charming and intimate memoir The Passionate Mistakes and... Read more »
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