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Hello, fellow Bitch readers! I’m a freelance journalist, editor, writer, and blogger, and I warmly welcome you to the first post of my guest blog series, Bringing Up Baby, which will explore pregnancy, childbirth, and infant care as represented on television (and, occasionally, in film and the mainstream media). My goal is to introduce babies as an important...

I try not to read magazines like People and US Weekly too often; I don't want my money, attention, or time supporting the creeps that hang out in Angelina Jolie's bushes. But there is, pretty undeniably, a facet to human nature that likes to gossip, likes to know secrets, and likes to read between the lines. Instead of threatening the safety of overpaid,...

• Anita Sarkeesian and Feminist Frequency were featured on a French blog this week (translated version sans video ici)! 
• Miss “Grey’s Rounds”? Everett Maroon is recapping Grey’s Anatomy at his site, Trans/plant/portation. 
• I’m planning on taking the weekend off reading stories from Mindy...

Talk to a group of teen boys, and they’ll probably tell you that, sure, they’d like to have the swoon-inducing sex appeal of Justin Bieber, Taylor Lautner, or whomever is playing the newest iteration of the Degrassi High heartthrob. But do they want to look like them, immaculately styled and toned to the max? No way, bro.