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The Marriage Ref: Not worth fighting for.

by Kelsey Wallace
March 1, 2010 at 7:00am

After viewing roughly 1.2 million promos for it during the Winter Olympics, I decided to give NBC’s new prime time show The Marriage Ref a chance during last night’s “special sneak preview.” Sure, the promos made it look like a boring, offensive excuse to parade NBC celebrities in front of the cameras and portray marriage as a hilarious prison, but Jerry Seinfeld created it and he...

On the Map: Now I Will Swoon

by Mandy Van Deven
February 27, 2010 at 12:50pm

French-American couple Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp make their on-screen debut as French-American lovers Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren in My American Lover. How do you say "awesome" in French?

Bitchtapes: Sweet Harmony

by Kjerstin Johnson
February 27, 2010 at 12:24pm

While snow is coming down all over the country, spring is poking its head out of the rain clouds in Portland, and I find that nothing suits the tease of spring better than cutesy female harmonizing. This mix features women from the 1920s to the 2010s bringing in the spring with vocal precision and fun tunes.

I Can Has Feminizm?

by Kelsey Wallace
February 27, 2010 at 9:00am

OK, so a few of us at the Bitch office might be just a little obsessed with Bravo’s Kell on Earth, the reality show based on Kelly Cutrone and her fashion PR company People’s Revolution. What can we say? It’s really good. If you watch the show as well, you know that someone got fired on this week’s episode for inappropriate tweeting (video here). Hey, NOBODY TWEETS...

Need another reason to love Johnny Weir?

by Kjerstin Johnson
February 26, 2010 at 5:38pm

A recent PR scuffle proved that ice-skating champ Johnny Weir is the bigger man when it comes to commentary…not that he gives a sh** what a man should or shouldn’t be.

In response to two Quebecois commentators who spoke derogatorily of Weir and said he should take a gender test, Weir responded by issuing an awesome statement that touched on identity, free speech,...

Sapphic Salon: “Law & Order: SVU” to feature Kathy Griffin as a lesbian

by Natalie Stein
February 26, 2010 at 2:07pm

Next week's episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit will feature Kathy Griffin playing a lesbian activist named Babs Duffy. The comedian and self-professed friend of the gays has been talking up the episode, "P.C.," with several press outlets in the past few months. She spoke highly of working with Christopher Meloni and ...

The Biotic Woman: The Goode Family makes for good TV

by Brittany Shoot
February 26, 2010 at 1:33pm

Because I currently have to rely on the internets for my American TV shows (save the ridiculous smattering of FBI/cop shows they export to Danish television), I'm only now catching the recently-canceled reruns of the short-lived animated sitcom by Office Space/Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judge, The Goode Family. The Goodes are the epitome of clueless liberals—painfully white, completely...

Reproductive Writes: GaGa for Condoms

by Holly Grigg-Spall
February 26, 2010 at 10:51am

'It's not complicated, just a fashion statement,' said pop star Lady GaGa of the range of condoms she's designed with Jeremy Scott for the contraception brand Proper Attire. Well, the thing is, condoms are complicated, there's no getting away from it - perhaps particularly ones that come in bright orange, green and pink animal prints - either ribbed, studded or sheer - and are promoted as '...

Is it just us, or does advertising really blow lately?

by Kelsey Wallace
February 24, 2010 at 12:21pm

So you thought the advertising industry had reached its lowest low with last month’s Super Bowl Misogynfest? Yeah, us too, but it turns out it’s not over yet. Advertising’s latest trend? Blow jobs.

More ads after the jump, but be forewarned: They suck.

Bibliobitch: The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

by Kjerstin Johnson
February 24, 2010 at 12:09pm

“I learn that black people don’t have blue eyes. I learn that I am black. I have blue eyes. I put all these new facts into the new girl.”

Even though the tone of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky reads like a young adult novel, told simply from the point of view of the characters–a young boy fascinated by birds, an immigrant mother, Rachel, the young...

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