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TelevIsm: Pambition! The Office's Abandoned Artist

by Rachel McCarthy-James
May 28, 2010 at 7:30am

Image: Pam Halpert from The Office, in front of her watercolors

The Office is a show that focuses on men–four out the five stars are male. Nonetheless, it's one of my very favorite shows, and I think it has strong, likable, interesting female characters. It's launched the career of Mindy Kaling, who writes for the show and plays the totally hilarious Kelly Kapoor. And it's got Pam...

Douchebag Decree: Bring out your douche!

by Kelsey Wallace
May 27, 2010 at 1:16pm

This week, like most weeks, brought with it a parade of douche. However, I’ve been scouring the world wide web–OK, googling stuff for the past few hours–and no one d-bag is standing out head and shoulders above the rest. It’s been a week of tiny douches (hold me closer, tiny douchebag!) and that calls for a douchebag roundup. Sarah Palin, Bret Easton Ellis, Michael Pollan, MIA/...

The Lady is a Tramp: Kim Cattrall Isn't A Cougar...and Neither is Samantha

by Andrea Plaid
May 27, 2010 at 11:45am

Yes, I said Samantha from Sex and the City is a Size Queen. But I’d never call Samantha a cougar.

Neither would Kim Cattrall–and she refuses the label for herself. To the point she refused to pose with an actual cougar on a highly popular magazine aimed at women over 40. (Just watch the first 40 seconds. The rest of the interview is standard feature-writing 101,...

Sm{art}: Embodiment, a queer multimedia project

by Kjerstin Johnson
May 26, 2010 at 7:15pm

“It’s time that we’re represented. Each layer of us is represented.”

The Lady Is A Tramp: Aiyana Stanley-Jones at the Altar of the Media

by Andrea Plaid
May 26, 2010 at 3:55pm

I'm taking a moment from my usual sexing-it-up posts because of the little girl pictured above.

For those who don't know, her name is Aiyana Stanley Jones. And she's dead. Her family just buried her this week.

She didn't die from leukemia or in a drunk-driving accident or at the hands of an abusive or negligent parent or guardian.

She died for the sake of...

TelevIsm: Spoiler Alert! Lost is Heteronormative!

by Rachel McCarthy-James
May 26, 2010 at 11:46am

Lost: not so fond of non-heterosexual people, as the finale on Sunday showed!

Spoilers ahoy!

Tuning In: Glee's “Theatricality”

by Alyx Vesey
May 26, 2010 at 11:23am

Glee gets theatrical with the help of Lady Gaga and Kiss.

The Young and The Feckless: Bursting Bubbles

by J. Maureen Henderson
May 26, 2010 at 10:05am

It was oddly apropos to be mulling over the idea of social bubbles over bubble tea. Totally unplanned, though (as was the choking on a tapioca pearl). A friend and I were discussing the need to stop accepting online culture as the status quo. It's exclusive and exclusionary, with its own language, its own jargon and touchstones and for all of its ubiquity, the culture of the internet isn't...

B-Sides: Sabrina Chap's Oompa!

by Kjerstin Johnson
May 25, 2010 at 8:43pm

Don’t let the picture fool you–Sabrina Chap’s forlorn album cover of Oompa! doesn’t reflect what inside: bouncing rhythms, complex instrumentation, and intelligent lyrics covering everything from heartache to performing femininity.

Mad World: No Cougars Please, We're Family-Friendly.

by Kelsey Wallace
May 25, 2010 at 12:03pm

For the record, I’m not a huge fan of the term “cougar.” It demonizes older women by framing them as dangerous predators who prey on younger men, and it has inspired far too many terrible jokes. However, I am also not a fan of Google AdSense’s recent decision to refuse service to ads for cougar dating sites. Their reasoning? The concept of an older woman looking to date a...

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