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TelevIsm: Pambition! The Office's Abandoned Artist
Image: Pam Halpert from The Office, in front of her watercolors
The Office is a show that focuses on men–four out the five stars are male. Nonetheless, it's one of my very favorite shows, and I think it has strong, likable, interesting female characters. It's launched the career of Mindy Kaling,... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Bring out your douche!
This week, like most weeks, brought with it a parade of douche. However, I’ve been scouring the world wide web–OK, googling stuff for the past few hours–and no one d-bag is standing out head and shoulders above the rest. It’s been a week of tiny douches (hold me closer, tiny douchebag... Read more »
The Lady is a Tramp: Kim Cattrall Isn't A Cougar...and Neither is Samantha
Yes, I said Samantha from Sex and the City is a Size Queen. But I’d never call Samantha a cougar.
Neither would Kim Cattrall–and she refuses the label for herself. To the point she refused to pose with an... Read more »
The Lady Is A Tramp: Aiyana Stanley-Jones at the Altar of the Media
I'm taking a moment from my usual sexing-it-up posts because of the little girl pictured above.
For those who don't know, her name is Aiyana Stanley Jones. And she's dead. Her family just buried her this week.
She didn't die from leukemia or in a drunk-driving accident or at the hands of an... Read more »
The Young and The Feckless: Bursting Bubbles
It was oddly apropos to be mulling over the idea of social bubbles over bubble tea. Totally unplanned, though (as was the choking on a tapioca pearl). A friend and I were discussing the need to stop accepting online culture as the status quo. It's exclusive and exclusionary, with its own language,... Read more »
Mad World: No Cougars Please, We're Family-Friendly.
For the record, I’m not a huge fan of the term “cougar.” It demonizes older women by framing them as dangerous predators who prey on younger men, and it has inspired far too many terrible jokes. However, I am also not a fan of Google AdSense’s... Read more »
The Young and The Feckless: Nothin' but Net(working)
It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been on the job search in the last two or three years that networking is now being held up as the be all and end all of job hunting strategies. Normally, I simply skim this ubiquitous and rather facile advice (it's on par with Cosmo beauty tips when it... Read more »
The Lady Is a Tramp: Death to the Size Queen Myth
I guess I should have seen it crouching in the corners of the workshop. It lurked in a chat I had with another woman about my recent post on Trojan Magnums and its trading on the Big Black Penis stereotype…
Then it sprang forth…
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The Young and The Feckless: An Interview with Refuse the Silence's Morgane Richardson
I stumbled across Morgane Richardson’s Refuse the Silence project via a link on Twitter. Immediately, it made me think of a discussion in the comments section of an earlier Y&F post about where the stories and conversations... Read more »
Sm{art}: Does it matter if your vibrator is sexy?
How many times have I heard people describe a new new laptop computer or i-Whatever as sexy? So much so that apple has built a brand on technology that people want to touch, hold, explore. Sleek, clean, shiny. High-touch and high-... Read more »
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