The Original Rudeboys want nothing to do with Chris Brown
The Original Rudeboys could have opened for Chris Brown in front of 14,000 screaming fans in Dublin’s O2 Arena. But they didn’t, because, well, Chris Brown.
...read moreCostume Calculus: Baby costume – sleeves + fishnets = Halloween
As evil fizz struggles to find a non-sexualized Halloween costume for her daughter, the dearth of age-appropriate, non-naked costumes for kids becomes striking. Hypervocal has tracked the evolution of girls’ and women’s Halloween costumes as they progress through various levels of nudity.
...read moreHalloween Isn’t Supposed to Be Scary Like This
Halloween is a holiday that I enjoy a lot more in the abstract (costumes, silliness, chocolate!) than the specific (lack of sewing skills/glue gun, complete lack of imagination as to what to be, candy of dubious quality and people who give you raisins). Aside from my one true costume victory (when I went as the [...]
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Fangirls, mean girls – and that grand pastime of calling each other “ugly sluts”
“Everyone knows that bitch got knocked up by someone else and TRICKED him into marriage! Ugly slut! I hope they divorce!” It sounds like a comment you would find on a Daily Mail article about some celebrity drama. But the poor man allegedly “TRICKED” into marriage is meant to be my husband. And the “ugly [...]
...read moreRescued from Caperton’s Recycling Bin: “You’re kidding me! I’ve never been asked that question before.”
Periodically, I get around to clearing off my desk and flattening out crumpled magazine clippings and saying, “Huh. Look at that.” Today: Marie Claire‘s Carrick Mollenkamp interviews Sallie Krawcheck, “[o]ne of Wall Street’s most powerful women” who “was ousted from her job running Bank of America’s wealth management division last fall.”
...read moreWin Tickets to Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell
Want two VIP tickets to the final taping of Totally Biased? They could be yours! The first Feministe reader to email feministe@gmail.com with your three favorite feminist moments from this season of Totally Biased will win two VIP tickets for the season finale taping on Thursday Sept. 20th. So hit us up! And if you don’t win the VIP tickets, you can still request tickets here.
...read moreFlorida high school varsity quarterback throws like a girl
South Plantation High School in Plantation, Florida, has the state’s only varsity quarterback who also quarterbacks the girls’ flag-football team and is a star point guard on the girls’ basketball team.
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...read moreScience Fiction: Saving Me, Saving the World
Story Collider is a podcast and magazine collecting “true stories about how science has affected people’s lives.” Aaron Wolfe’s story, “Saving Hubble, Saving Aaron,” is about how science fiction makes a life of science possible — by sparking wonder, sure, but also by allowing us an escape from the brutality of scientific reality and offering [...]
...read moreA Simple Saturday Post: Leave Me Out of Your “Everyone,” Mr. Apatow.
I just wanted to quickly mention the trailer for the new Judd Apatow movie, “This is 40.” Of course, we all know that Hollywood is guilty of all sorts of offenses all of the time, but it seems rare even today to find one that is quite so up front with its surface-level exclusion. The [...]
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