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The Young and The Feckless: Mo' Education, Mo' Problems?

April 14, 2010 at 10:20am

According to a study by the London School of Economics, British women with degrees are 86 percent more likely to drink frequently and to report having a drinking problem than those women without post-secondary education. The more education a woman has, the more likely she is to hit the bottle. As a graduate school educated young woman who had to do some quick mental math to remember when she...

Tuning In: Kiely Williams's (not at all) “Spectacular”

by Alyx Vesey

April 14, 2010 at 10:14am

On Friday, Kjerstin Johnson forwarded me Vulture's post on the music video for Kiely Williams's "Spectacular." Once a member of the girl group 3LW and The Cheetah Girls, Williams has been working on solo projects since 2008, and first tried to dispense with her Disney-friendly image with 2009's "Make Me a Drink." The instrumental version of "Spectacular" was released in October 2009...

CLEAN PURE SOFT FRESH: A Whole New World of Vagina Spray

by Sara Reihani

April 13, 2010 at 4:42pm

Ladies and... ladies, welcome to the wonderful, bewildering world of eco-chic vagina cleaner feminine care products. Canadian company I Love My Muff offers products that are good for the environment, possibly but probably not that bad for you, definitely unnecessary AND, as an added bonus, with a host of conflicting positive and negative messages about the acceptability of vaginas!

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Raising Trouble: Whoa, whoa, whoa!

by Liza Featherstone

April 13, 2010 at 12:43pm

Three-year-old Jim leaned over and gave his four-year-old neighbor, Ivan, a big smooch on the lips. "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" yelled Jim's dad, making no effort to hide his distress. The kids didn't seem to notice Dad's outburst, but it's a message that children, especially boys, hear a lot: "Don't be gay."

Mad World: We Got Game, But Our Ads Don't

by Kelsey Wallace

April 13, 2010 at 12:39pm

When it comes to women and sports, we’ve got a long way to go before we reach the promised land of gender equity. Still, when you consider that Title IX just passed in 1972 and that we’ve got some seriously kickass women athletes to look up to in the wide world of sports today, well, it could be worse. So how are we doing when it comes to women, sports, and advertising?...

Mary Anderson: Slingin' Off the Rain

by Sara Stroo

April 12, 2010 at 2:45pm

Trivia: Which came first: the Model T Ford or the windshield wiper?

Might seem counter-intuitive, but it was the wiper! Yep, the first successful windshield wiper was invented, and patented, by Mary Anderson in 1903.

Rape: Still not an “official crime,” still making us stabby

by Kelsey Wallace

April 12, 2010 at 11:48am

Last week, Amanda Hess wrote an excellent and completely infuriating piece for The Washington City Paper called, “Test Case: You’re Not a Rape Victim Unless Police Say So” about one woman’s unbelievably frustrating struggle to get a rape kit. (I definitely recommend reading the piece, but it could be triggering so keep that in mind.)

Anyway, as one astute Bitch reader...

The Young and The Feckless: Expiration Dated

by J. Maureen Henderson

April 12, 2010 at 11:21am

I hate to break it to you, but we have a sell-by date. We're perishable, dude. Highly perishable.

I spoke these words to a friend as we meandered down the street engaged in another one of our snarky, rapid-fire dialogues about how we ended up here. Here being the waning years of our twenties without being firmly established on solid career paths and without appropriate grown-up...

Tuning In: Liz Lemon's ringtone

by Alyx Vesey

April 12, 2010 at 11:06am

Last month, NBC aired 30 Rock’s “Future Husband” episode, wherein TGS creator/head writer Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) tracks down the man she labeled her spouse-to-be on her iPhone. It was a follow-up to the Valentine’s Day-themed “Anna Howard Shaw Day,” which found the show’s heroine spending the most romantic day of the year at the dentist, haunted by hallucinations of...