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Sometimes I find it difficult to keep up with my reading pile, especially now that I've inherited a coffee table so enormous it almost begs for piles and piles of magazines, books, and zines to be stacked atop it.
But I set aside some time this weekend to catch up. A few things I enjoyed. Maybe... Read more »
Read it and weep: Atlantic Monthly advises women to just settle, already — you're not getting any younger, right?
It's enirely too late on a Friday afternoon to get all riled up about this article, but shit, it really went there. In a nutshell: Lori Gottlieb believes that women should settle for men they don't really want to marry, because being married is better than not being married. The Atlantic Monthly,... Read more »
To all you folks in Atlanta....
Bitch is happy to be a co-sponsor of a show at MINT gallery in Atlanta on
Saturday, February 9th, 7 - 11 pm * www.mintgallery.org or http://www.myspace.com/mintshowroom, featuring the work of Jessica Gonacha, Sunni Johnson and Emily Maxwell.
Please go out and support these artists and MINT... Read more »
Oh, thank gawd
The best take I've seen on the feminist infighting on whom to support in the primaries (via Feministe, whose Jill also has some great stuff to say). (And cheers to Alternet for for inaugurating a Reproductive Justice and Gender section, but shouldn't there be something else for feminist coverage? '... Read more »
Really?
Apparently, this primary election is all about race and gender. So says the New York Times ("Polls of Democratic voters on Tuesday made it clear that the politics of identity—race, gender, class—was driving the contest between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton."), CNN, and, well,... Read more »
The Britney Advocate
I can't help myself from reading the latest installment in Britney's saga, which just gets increasingly depressing and weird. Overall, I feel a great sadness for one very lost woman and the fate of her children. The latest news about her "manager" stealing from her, controlling her with pills and... Read more »
Hello.
Once upon a time, I was knee-deep in earnest pitches from young writers, galleys of new books on every topic that could potentially be tagged as "women's issues," and piles of red-ink-stained page proofs. Then I had a baby girl and two weeks later my other girls up and moved shop to Portland,... Read more »
File Under: Oh My Freaking God
"Do you suffer from embarassing dark or discolored intimate areas"...reads South Beach Skin Solutions pitch for their "Lightening Gel For Sensitive Areas." Teeth whitening products seem positively provincial next to this product for...ahem...assholes (sorry, there's just no delicate way to put... Read more »
True Confessions: The Millionaire Matchmaker - WTF Am I Watching This?
On this Bravo reality show, Patti Stanger, the President and CEO of "The Millionaire's Club" finds and matches stereotypically attractive women to rich dudes who can't seem to find a "decent" woman to have a relationship with. Basically, she's a pimp. She has rules about the couple not having sex... Read more »
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