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The Best Lines from Long-Lost 1966 Book "The Promiscuous Breed"
To celebrate the release of our new Pulp issue, I dredged up a handful of pulpy 1960s bottom-of-the-barrel paperbacks from a Portland vintage store. I’ll be bringing three of these long-forgotten titles back to light this week.
Today... Read more »
RuPaul's Drag Race Comic Recap: The Six Best Moments from Episode Five
This season of RuPaul’s Drag Race soldiers on with episode five’s “Snatch Game.” The game promises to separate the Queens from the Jokers, as the witty and witless alike take center stage. It all happens on Drag Race! My illustrated recap of the show’s six best moments is below.
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Don’t Believe in Sex-Ed? Read the Terrifyingly Misinformed Questions Tweens ask Kotex.
Since it debuted in 2011, the U by Kotex brand of pads and tampons (aimed at pre-teens) has made its mark with funny commercials and frank talk about periods. But recently, Kotex has decided to launch a part of their site that addresses... Read more »
In Classic Western Films, Cowboys Wander While Women Stay at Home
The classic image of a cowboy is a wandering man. Symbolically, the American Cowboy has come to represent large, abstract values: freedom, honesty, bravery. In these stories, cowboys meander and conquer the open range alone with their trusty steeds.
But how do women fit into these pervasive stories... Read more »
Spy Show The Americans Takes on Real-Life Military Issue: Rape.
The Americans, a new FX Network spy show developed by ex-CIA agent Joe Weisberg and... Read more »
Four Reasons Gay Culture Loves Shows About Straight Older Women
On a chilled-out weeknight in a chilled-out gay bar, you wouldn’t be surprised to see clips of Designing Women or The Golden Girls playing on the big-screen TVs. That seems intuitive, right? Gay culture has long embraced these shows, to the point that seeing Rose and Blanche... Read more »
A Brief History of America's Obsession With Epic Slavery Films
Scarlett O’Hara and her mammy in Gone with the Wind.
With their Oscar wins last night, Django Unchained and Lincoln have taken their places in the top-tier pantheon of Hollywood’s... Read more »
Girls, Girls, Girls: Recap of Episode 7 “Video Games”
Throughout this season, the characters of Girls have been trying on different lives and personas. They try to be different people and better people, eventually defaulting back to the familiar and the easy.
In night’s episode, “Video Games”, a minor character says she... Read more »
Do We Still Need Women's Colleges? Yes and No.
Women’s colleges were born out of institutionalized sexism. So, do we still need women’s colleges?
In mid-December the Huffington Post published a guest editorial by Elizabeth Pfeiffer titled, “... Read more »
The Office and The Feminine Mystique
On the sitcom The Office, as in real life, middle class working mothers are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
They often face the choice of either compromising their career—working part-time or quitting altogether—or feeling like an absent mother. Men, on the other hand,... Read more »
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