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Ten Things to Hate About <em>Jane</em>
When we heard that Jane Pratt, the former editor of Sassy—the sharp, celebrated teen mag that above all was absolutely unwilling to pull its readers into the spiral of insecurity and product consumption so endemic to all others in the genre—was launching a new grown-up glossy, we, along with other... Read more »
Editors' Letter: Puberty: Those Awkward Years
It's a refrain we're sick and tired of hearing: Feminism doesn't speak to young women. Girls just aren't interested in feminism. Self-proclaimed feminists lament it; non-feminists think it proves that feminism is not only unimportant, but outdated. This simplification of the concerns of girls may... Read more »
Bitch Reads #2
Reviewed in this issue: Defending Pornography, by Nadine Strossen; Gender Wars, by Brian Fawcett; Talk Dirty To Me, by Sallie Tisdale; Going All the Way: Teenage Girls’ Tales of Sex, Romance, and Pregnancy, by Sharon Thompson; and Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out... Read more »
Hail Harper's: An Ode
My arm fell asleep, I got so engrossed. This issue of Harper’s Bazaar is about as big as a bible—and just as full of prophecy.
I fall in love with the models, their blackened eyes and plaster pigment, all pinched and compressed into vinyl and leather, looking hot hot hot and totally unfazed... Read more »
Of Kegels, Kotex, and Kate Moss: A Look at February's Women's Glossies
Allure
Irony of the month: While the Editor’s Letter says, “Shut up and eat,” and bemoans the fact that women are always “self-surveilling” their caloric intake, the mag gives information about: “Aromatrim” products (you smell them and they make you eat less); a new diet pill; “liposhaving” (... Read more »
Looking for Girls in All the Boys' Places: An Unlikely Feminist Film Fest
Wish there were more kick-ass female characters in the movies? Enough with The Piano-esqe mute-is-powerful bullshit. Sometimes you can find feminism in the most unlikely places, like action movies and Freaky Friday-like comedies.
Batman II
Why isn’t this movie called Catwoman?In a classic... Read more »
Talkshows: TV's Culture of Categorization
Talk shows are the scariest thing on the planet today. You think I’m exaggerating, don’t you? Think about it: not only are they the lowest common denominator of American pop culture, but they’re also—because they’re in the form of “real” people talking about their “real”... Read more »
Sassy Responds: Not to Us, Of Course...
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but to other perceptive and right-on readers who are as upset as we are about the changes. And guess what?
The editors are defensive as hell.
Here’s what the readers are saying in their so-called “hate mail”: “I cannot tell you how much your changes SUCK!!” “I feel compelled to... Read more »
Mad As A Wet Hen #1: A Roundup of Media Affronts
How about that new Taco Bell ad featuring 11-year-old boys on the beach ogling a shapely lifeguard…
Guess what? According to Cosmopolitan you’ll never get a date without duct tape and a “No Trespassing” sign…
When Camille Paglia addresses the defunct pedophilic Calvin... Read more »
Whee! #1: Some Cockle-Warming Tidbits
We love Claire from 90210. She's so brainy; she's so hot. She never plays dumb for the boys and she gets to fuck them anyway...
Yay for the recent changes in Ms. Not that we didn't adore it before, but now we're foaming at the mouth with love...
Good for NBC for making visible the... Read more »
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