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The Dating Game: Coming Online

I know that there’s a book called The Rules, but the real truth about dating is that there aren’t any.

Political InQueery: The Annual Vote for Change

Maybe the summer only seems quiet, free from the stresses of the holiday season, the doldrums of mid-winter, and the frantic fervor of spring. Maybe this is when we're lulled into complicity and we acquiesce into a false sense of comfort. Because fall is just around the corner, and it's not just any fall this year: it's the 2010 Midterm Elections. The world is ending, and so far, nobody cares...

Snarky's Cinemachine: Andrew Garfield is the New Spiderman

While Wonder Woman’s Hot Topic makeover took center stage last week, another superhero fate was being revealed. This week it was announced that Andrew Garfield will assume the role of Spiderman in the upcoming reboot of the franchise. The sweet faced Garfield, despite being an accomplished actor, isn’t exactly a household name. His nascent acting résumé includes the films...

On Our Radar

We're rounding up some of the most interesting things we read this week in another installment of On Our Radar!

  • On Salon, Madeline Holler writes on the downsides of radical homemaking.
  • Amanda Hess of The Sexist breaks down the creepy manipulation of television personality Olivia Munn during her Playboy photo shoot. Munn writes in her memoir about the...

Political InQueery: Close Encounters of the First Lady Kind

The most boring exhibit I ever saw in any of the Washington, DC Smithsonian museums was, without a doubt, the gowns of the First Ladies. Oh, how I could not have cared less. But my mother preened over them like she'd just found some rare bird egg sitting under her window. Helen Taft? Grace Coolidge? Elizabeth Monroe? I didn't care about their dresses, and I certainly didn't know who they were...

Snarky's Cinemachine: Wonder Woman Puts on Pants!

To be fair, based on the above image alone, I did not fully appreciate the outrage. It appeared Wonder Woman’s ass kicking capabilities did not seem diminished despite the lack of star spangled panties and glamorous accessories. However, when I saw this picture of the new costume, then the ire made a lot more sense. The new Wonder Woman looks like an extra on the 90s version of ...

Declare Your Independence: Bitch, The Magazine

As many of you Internet fans know, I’m the web editor here at Bitch Media, which means I concern myself mainly with what goes on in this series of tubes we’re working in right now. However, today I’d like to talk about Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, the best print magazine in the whole world. (OK, I’m biased, but it is seriously awesome.) And now you...

Douchebag Decree: Dr. Maria New, In Utero Gender Norm Enforcer!

You know how in Gattaca doctors used hormones to control the personalities of fetuses, ensuring a creepily uniform generation of “perfect” people, like the guy who plays Ethan Hawke’s brother in the movie? Well, now there is a doctor who is attempting to do something similar by eradicating non-“feminine” traits in female fetuses—an “abnormal” disinterest in babies, not wanting to...

The Ghost Inside Christina Hendricks gets her to sell her limbs for tollbooth money.

OK, so this video may have come out last month, but I swear I just noticed it for the first time today (and a quick office poll confirmed that I am not alone). How did this slip under the radar? The first Broken Bells music video and it features Christina Hendricks in a “Ray Bradbury does The Valley of the Dolls” plot that has her selling her android body parts in the hopes of meeting a man on...

Political InQueery: She's Got to Be Something, Right?

Regardless of which person the President would have selected for Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, I would have been interested. I am curious to see what floats around in the ether (read: debate) around present-day nominees, and given the interest by many in the makeup of the court, I want to keep tabs on the rhetoric around this specific nominee. Especially since she's an...

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