In which I indulge myself in brief admiration of Helen Mirren
I kind of love Helen Mirren. I just think that for the most part, she’s a classy dame. I like that she takes no shit. I like that it looks like she knows how to have fun. I like how outspoken she is about the dangers of gender stereotyping, and the importance of mentors and [...]
...read moreHoly roller
WHAS11 tells us that First Unitarian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, has its first-ever female minister. Yay! And stuff. But whatever. The real story is that minister Dawn Cooley is hiding a dark, fishnetted secret (although not the one I was expecting by the time the news story got around to the big reveal). ——— ——— [...]
...read moreWhat romantic comedies can teach us about ourselves
God, I hate romantic comedies with a fiery passion. It’s a cliche, I know–look, the bitter, humorless feminist hates love and laughter–but they make my teeth itch. I don’t fault anyone else for enjoying them, if that’s their thing, but I can’t get over the repeated implication in every single movie that I’m supposed to [...]
...read moreYour startup is inferior to that guy with the mobile app for golfers
In case you needed a reminder that ventures traditionally associated with women are inherently inferior to things that are manly and such, tech reporter Jolie O’Dell is happy to remind you via Twitter. Women: Stop making startups about fashion, shopping, & babies. At least for the next few years. You’re embarrassing me. After a few [...]
...read moreCupcake redux
A post a few weeks ago about girliness, gardening, cupcakes, and Sigourney Weaver was the focus of some amount of passion from women who happen to love cupcakes, gardening, and/or Sigourney Weaver in equal parts. One member of those ranks is, apparently, original post author Peg Aloi, who had the following to say in our [...]
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It’s fun for a girl or a boy.
Now on sale at Bass Pro Shop: Just can’t get Sally interested in firearms? Wondering why little Lisa doesn’t seem to want to go out and plink cans with Daddy? Put down that drab airgun–hers isn’t pink enough! In case you were concerned, like I was, that a boy might pick up the pink gun [...]
...read moreWatch how you watch yourself.
Swedish photojournalist Moa Karlberg says her “Watching You Watch Me” project is “an effort to create debate laws and ethics within the photographer’s role.” She shoots unsuspecting subjects through a one-way mirror, catching their expressions as they think they’re looking only at themselves. What gets me about the photos isn’t the ethical question of shooting [...]
...read moreWe have a winner!
And the winner is… everybody, kind of. The final count for Slave Leia Watch 2011 is in, and it’s a simultaneously disappointing and heartening six Slave Leias. It’s disappointing because at $5US per Slave Leia (and no Rebels or Dudes), that’s a mere $30 to our winning charity. It’s heartening, though, that so many women [...]
...read moreThe meaning of intersectionality
Update, bright and early 9/6: So, you know when you pull out a concept the implications of which you think you understand, but you really don’t, and people keep trying to tell you you don’t, but you don’t understand the concept enough to see what you don’t understand, and then someone says one sentence that [...]
...read moreI’m too pretty to come up with a title for this post. I wonder if my brother’s busy.
Unimportant update: Turns out my brother was actually busy recovering from back surgery, which slipped my mind only for a second, I swear. Regardless, he was game to do my homework for me, thank God. I believe the children are our future, let them blah blah whatever Screw some homework, amiright? (Actually, yeah, screw some [...]
...read moreBronze Bikinis for Beneficence
Well, Labor Day weekend is coming up, and if you live in Atlanta and don’t have room to fart in Midtown with the addition of 40,000 tourists dressed like stormtroopers, you know what that means: DragonCon. And if you’ve ever been one of those 40,000 tourists, pressed tit-to-bare-back with a chick in a bronze bikini [...]
...read moreWhat if Michael Vick sold beemers, and other stupid questions
Toure wrote an article titled “What if Michael Vick were white,” and he seems to think the Photoshopped White Michael Vick illustration was the worst part. Toure found himself in a position of having to defend his original piece because… well, because he wrote it. He spun a tale of an alternate-reality Vick who grew [...]
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