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When we heard that Jane Pratt, the former editor of Sassy—the sharp, celebrated teen mag that above all was absolutely unwilling to pull its readers into the spiral of insecurity and product consumption so endemic to all others in the genre—was launching a new grown-up glossy, we, along with other feminist pop culture junkies nationwide, squealed with excitement. Then Jane launched. And we...

we've taken a lot of shit from people who don't like our name: readers who wonder why we've chosen an epithet to grace our covers, friends and family who took a year or two to be able to say it out loud (although they're all incredibly supportive now, thank you very much), well-meaning folks who suggest that a simple name change might allow us to rake in the clams, people we meet at cocktail...

When I told people that this issue of Bitch was going to be devoted entirely to sex, the most common response was a sarcastic, "Oh, you mean as opposed to what all the other ones were about?" It's true that we tend to spill a lot of ink about sex—and so I started to think about why. 


Sex is a favorite topic almost everywhere—but within the feminist movement, we don't seem to...

“So now you can eat like one of the boys, but still look like one of the girls,” says the male voice-over touting Baked Lays potato chips while supermodels stuff their faces on screen… Oh, boys, did you know—Twix bars are the new way to get rid of those pesky, materialistic, shallow, shopping-obsessed females in your life… Eating is a masculine activity, part two: Wendy’s Big...