“I want to do to you what spring does to the cherry trees.”
-Pablo Neruda Thank goodness it’s spring.
...read moreAnorexia Before Spring Break
On a Xanga blog ring called the Bikini Coming Soon Challenge, one 19-year-old related the anxieties she was experiencing only days after returning from a week on the beach with friends: “Tonight I was looking on Facebook at people’s albums from spring break. I saw the guy’s album that I kind of was starting to [...]
...read moreFeminists Are Wrong Because They’re Ugly
And they’re totally not funny, too!
...read moreDita von Teese, No Less
Dita von Teese, fetish model and wife of Marilyn Manson, has something to say about Hollywood standards of beauty: Rocker MARILYN MANSON’s wife DITA VON TEESE has hit out at Hollywood standards of beauty, branding them unrealistic and unoriginal. The curvy burlesque dancer, who has dark hair and pale skin, is frustrated with the pressure [...]
...read moreFat-phobes go after Redbook
Apparently “women’s lifestyle” magazines are damned if they do, and damned if they don’t. Women like me complain that their covers are constantly adorned with stick-thin sexbots. When they respond by putting pictures of normal-sized women in their pages, and with their editor saying that she’s a pretty average American woman at a size 12, [...]
...read moreNYC Museum Recommendation: Munch at the MoMA
If you haven’t gone yet, go. I went two weekends ago, and it’s amazing. I love the MoMA anyway because I have a modern art obsession (I would marry Mark Rothko possibly before Anderson Cooper), but the Munch exhibit is worth a visit in itself. My favorite piece of his, which is part of the [...]
...read moreBeauty Call
I need some help here. If you’ve ever spent a winter in New York, you know that many older buildings like mine have eyeball-shriveling levels of heat. Then there’s the general dryness in the air, and the cold. As a result, my face is a flaking, crusty mess, but even worse, my scalp is itching [...]
...read moreBe Ashamed.
There’s so much going on here that I don’t even know where to start: From a website called “Modesty Zone,” which is targeted entirely at women (their other products include a t-shirt which reads “Girls Gone Mild” on the front, and “Be Daring. Keep Your Shirt On” on the back). Because remember, kids, the female [...]
...read moreSick
Have you heard of Jocelyn Wildenstein? She’s had a lot of work done. (Note: the links are frightening, and maybe not work safe.) Flea had a mocking entry on her blog about la Wildenstein, with lots of ridicule and disgust from commenters, and it got me thinking. At first I couldn’t come up with anything [...]
...read moreHot Geezers in Magazines
Well, they aren’t exactly elderly, but you’d think so by the way the Times writes about them. Brace yourself. Very soon in beauty and fashion ads you will be seeing faces of women who are actually in their 40′s – or even older. If you look closely, you may even see a wrinkle or a [...]
...read moreA Follow-Up
to yesterday’s very short post on the discussion board about how I’m hideous and a fat ugly pig. And it’s a long one, and I’m on a lot of painkillers, so please excuse typos or anything that just doesn’t make sense. I was a little bit in shock, and a little bit upset, when I [...]
...read moreOur Vaginas, Ourselves
The NYTimes addresses designer vaginas in this snarky piece: Indeed, it has always seemed to me that one of the singular advantages of being a woman lies precisely in the “dark continent” quality of our genital cartography. If we women don’t get to stalk around flaunting our virile equipment the way men do, we also [...]
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