Jezebel: Chitchat

On Mother's Day, Tell Mom You're Sorry For Hurting Her Vagina

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:30:00 EDT

Vaginal surgery consultant Vanessa Scott's declared today the First Annual Vaginal Rejuvenation Awareness Day! She purposely picked a date near Mother's Day, so bring it up at brunch next week and give mom the gift of absurd body insecurities. [SFWeekly] More »

What Did You Think Of Good Hair?

LatoyaPeterson — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:20:00 EDT

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Well, we know what we think. With friends, family, and boyfriends in tow, Anna, Dodai, and I hit the theaters this weekend to check out Chris Rock's comedic documentary Good Hair. And most of us liked it. More »

A Silly Conversation From Jezebel Virtual HQ

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:45:00 EDT

In which I am the only one who thinks Sasha Obama looks like an adorable little fox. Discussion after the jump. More »

The Purity Myth's Jessica Valenti Talks Virginity, Weddings & Miss California

Anna Holmes — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:00:00 EDT

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Jessica Valenti's newest book, The Purity Myth, was released last month. Unfortunately, it took us until this week to get around to giving it the attention it deserves. More »

Last Night Liz Phair Descended On The Pampered Aging Nineties Theme Park That Is New York And Today We IM-ed About It

Moe — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:20:00 EDT

Yesterday Jessica and I went to see the musician Liz Phair play an intimate concert in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the highly underappreciated cult album Exile In Guyville. The crowd was somewhat disappointingly subdued, chiefly because they couldn't really sing along word-for-word as one usually does in such situations because Liz Phair has a very, very, very low voice. (Occasionally you'd hear little yelps from fangirls, desperately singing along in the next octave up like Liz Phair as told to Juliana Hatfield karaoke.) (And yes some of those yelps came from us!) Anyway, we attempted to Liveblog the excitement via Twitter, but the subterranean venue had no cell phone reception. How nineties! So we've attempted to recreate the experience in all its shimmeringly, sensually poignant totality the only way we know how anymore: IM exchange! In short: don't believe the haters! It was fun. Well, in that "despite the fact we are really fucking old" way! More »

Yeah, People Wore Condoms…When The Naked Gun Was In Theaters!

Moe — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:30:00 EDT

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Remember how, like, back in the day people were so super vigilant about wearing condoms? I grew up in the eighties and think I learned about condoms before I learned about sex. But anyhow, times change and a new survey out says 40% of New Yorkers did not use condoms during their last sexual encounter. This shocked my friend Jessica, who immediately IMed me to get my theories. It turned out that I was quite the expert in this sort of…stuff? She posted the IM on her website, and I encourage you to read it, because it is at least as funny as the Herman's Hermits human condom love scene montage from The Naked Gun, which I found for you just in time for the TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY of that movie. Watch it after the jump. [NY Mag] More »

Race Relations: What's So Wrong About A Rich White Woman Interested In "Africa"?

Anna Holmes — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:20:00 EDT

A few weeks ago, Latoya Peterson, editor of the blog Racialicious, emailed me to proffer compliments over the success of the site and talk about Jezebel's coverage of racial issues, which, she explained, she wasn't particularly thrilled with. After a few email exchanges, I called her, and we talked for what seemed like hours. We did the same the following day. And, (if I remember correctly) a few days later. Although I didn't always agree with her assessment of our content and the intentions behind it, I found her and her commentary to be intelligent, charming, sensitive and, of course enlightening... so much so that I decided to recreate part of our conversation over email so that commenters could weigh in. After the jump, Latoya and I discuss reader complaints, accusations of colonialism, coverage of Third World countries, and how to deal with issues of "the patriarchy" abroad without being patronizing. More »

Chit Chat

Anna Holmes — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:20:00 EDT

Tracie to Anna, 4:04pm: "The stupid Pope is pre-empting Judge Judy." More »

Are Humans Built For Monogamy?

Moe — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:00:00 EST

Are single women who take birth control when they fall in love CHEATING MEN WITH THEIR DECEPTIVE PHEROMONES??? That's the rather radical spin on what seemed to me to be a relatively rational chat between a psychology blogger and the editor of a big cover story about the chemistry of love in TIME, sent to me late last night with a rather enraged rant by a certain bisexual polyamorous friend of the blog. Now: my inclination is to think women who take birth control before they're even in a relationship are cheating themselves, because while condoms do indeed suck why would you want to fuck without the pheromonal connection? Only to, once again, risk the possibility of falling in love with someone who's probably, once again, not right for you? The answer, my bipoly friend explained to me, is simple: there's a flaw in my logic. I was operating under the assumption that humans were built for monogamy. And that's not true! "All the science" says so. My IM reeducation after the jump. More »

Reasons To Love Animal Planet: Hot Guys, Badass Broads, Cute Creatures

Anna — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:30:00 EST

Was holiday travel a bitch for you this year? It was for me. In fact, the only thing (besides a stiff drink) that helped me endure my joke of a JetBlue flight out of JFK was the on-board entertainment system. Specifically: Animal Planet. I bring this up for two reasons. The first: 2 hours into my six-hour marathon watching the network, I noticed that many other females on the flight were tuned to the same channel. The second (smaller) reason: Some confusion in the comments of yesterday's post about zoos with regards to my stance on the channel. (For the record, I also like polar bear pajamas; I was just making a point about the dual fetishization of/cruelty to animals in America.) Anyway, last night, Wonkette waterboarder Megan Carpentier and I spent an hour IM'ing about our addiction to the cable channel's hunky heroes (Jeff Corwin, specifically), animal abuser revenge fantasies, and the now-legendary Puppy Bowl. Our conversation, after the jump. More »

Legendary Watergate Reporter Wonders: Is Britney Spears Taking The Nation's IQ Down With Her?

Moe — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:00:09 EDT

OMG the news is awesome today! It started when Carl Bernstein of Woodward & Bernstein i.e. Dustin Hoffman from that movie with Robert Redford, said something like celebrity culture had made everyone in America totally braindead (and also stupid!) and well, it carried on from there. We've got pothead CEOs, crackhead Chuck Krauthammer, drug laws, English teachers in Japan, Spanish speakers in America; LOADS of fun folks. Without further adozzle, y'all!

How To Heal "One Nation Under Dog"??

Moe — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:40:08 EDT

The morning time is when you can read the headlines and ask yourself the obvious, but earnest questions you'd never think to address later on in the day because they sorta spoil the joke: is the middle class really disappearing in this country? Is the ever-widening income gap contributing to the rise in hate speech lately? Was that bounty hunter show as good as it sounded? We comb through the major papers (i.e. Drudge) and ask the dumb questions so you don't have to —and today we even tried to make it concise and reader-friendly so you can actually follow!

We Read The Morning Papers, So You Can Continue To Feel Good About Not Doing It Yourselves

Moe — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:30:12 EDT

This morning, the Anonymous Lobbyist and I decided to have a very serious discussion about the serious news we'd read over the weekend and I decided to paste its contents here because I'm lazy and almost pathologically indecisive. Click the jump to watch us feebly discuss the upcoming US American election, that epic story about Evangelical Christians in the New York Times Magazine, Britney Spears and some sport that had some big game over the weekend.

It's Official: Feminists As Good In The Bedroom As The Boardroom

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:30:00 EDT

A new study has us simultaneously thinking "Yay!" and "Duh." Research conducted by Laurie Rudman and Julie Phelan from Rutgers University finds that feminism may actually improve heterosexual sex and relationships and that there isn't much truth to stereotypes of feminists being unattractive and sexually unappealing. By surveying over 500 men and women about their relationship histories and perceptions of their own feminism they found that "having a feminist partner was linked to healthier heterosexual relationships for women. Men with feminist partners also reported both more stable relationships and greater sexual satisfaction. According to these results, feminism does not predict poor romantic relationships, in fact quite the opposite." In fact, they found that feminist women are more likely to be in relationships with guys than non-feminist women. After the jump, one self-described feminist (Tracie) and one self-described not-feminist (Moe) compare their sex lives/relationship history. More »

Bill Maher Agrees With 'Facebook': Breasts Are For Fondling, Not Feeding

Anna Holmes — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:00:00 EDT

Our "Barbie Electric Chair" Is A Bust; We Interview The Inventor

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:00:00 EDT

Remember how we promised to construct our own Barbie electric chair this weekend? Well, we failed miserably. The epoxy was hard to work with and we were sawing away for like three hours trying to cut up pieces of wood (and slicing open some flesh in the process), but we weren't able to fry Barbie in the manner we wanted. We haven't given up though! Trial and error is all part of the scientific process... or so we hear. We contacted Jessy Ellenberger—the 22-year-old college student who conceived of the project for a science fair when she was in middle-school—and we asked for tips and some help. Suffice it to say: Jessy rules. When we asked her if she'd done anything else weird with Barbie dolls as a child she said:

[My sister and I] made Amazonian Barbie once. We took the clothes off of one of those with the really long hair, and we put her in my mom's giant ivy plant. Then we took the head off of another Barbie, and put her head on the other Barbie's hand. My dad thought it was so awesome that he took a picture.

Check out our interview with the mad scientist after the jump. More »

Jezebel's Barack Obamagasm

Anna Holmes — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:00:08 EDT

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is on the cover of the upcoming issue of Vibe magazine, a fact that has sent at least one Jezebel into a fit of orgasmic bliss. (Hey, did you know it's National Orgasm Week?) The embarrassing truth — complete with misspellings and unnecessary all-caps — after the jump. More »

When We Grow Up We Want To Be Jackie Collins

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:30:27 EDT

Jackie Collins has a new book, Drop Dead Gorgeous. We might read it! See, we thought we hated her. But we realized that we can't! She's Joan Collins' sister, one of the richest living authors and is always dripping with diamonds. She writes the kind of smut that we secretly adore, and may be queen of the quip! Over at Vanity Fair George Wayne asked questions of the writer, and we've picked out our favorite answers: More »

Don't Knock It 'Til You've Tried It

Jennifer — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:50:27 EDT

We drink, you drink, we all drink together! Well, that is except when we drink alone. Which is a way under-valued, over-stigmatized activity if you ask us. Moe and Jennifer's deep thoughts on the topic — in one provocative, heart-warming IM conversation — after the jump. More »

Why We Hate 'Making Love'

Anna Holmes — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:51:41 EDT

There's almost nothing more unimaginative or wince-inducing than euphemisms for sex. Some are too impersonal; some are too raunchy; but one is just plain wrong in every way. Yes, we're talking about "making love" (often transposed as "lovemaking", which is almost worse!) and although we hate it — and the Bad Company song that inevitably pops up in our heads when we hear the term — we don't really know why. Earlier this afternoon, Anna and a special Friend-Of-Jezebel got together to try to figure it all out. We aren't saying the two succeeded, but you can applaud or mock their efforts, after the jump. More »

Why Men Pee In The Shower — The IM Investigation

Jennifer — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:31:16 EDT

When (well, if) America chooses a woman president next November, few traditionally male experiences will be unfamiliar to the fairer sex. We fight wars. We ejaculate. We even, on occasion, send emails regarding our emotional unavailability after a night of passion that involved a little too much cuddling. But no girl we have ever known pisses in the shower. Welcome to our very first installment of 'Inside the Minds Of Men,' wherein we send our youngest and, uh, fairest Jezebel editor, Jen, who doesn't so much as brush her teeth in the shower, to investigate the few remaining mysteries of manhood. She'll go to strip clubs and listen to Stern and hang out at the New York Stock Exchange and do all sorts of other crap that dudes do to retain their senses of whatever the fuck "manhood" is these days.

The Men — And Manboobs — Of Our Dreams

Anna Holmes — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:26:58 EDT

A study undertaken by sleep researchers has found that women dream about sex just as often as men do. These findings, apparently, are different than those from a similar study conducted 40 years ago in which "women reported way fewer sexy dreams than men did," More »

The Paris Hilton Press Conference

Anna Holmes — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:57:38 EDT

This morning's "biggest" news: After only five days in jail, Paris Hilton has been released and sent to her two-story West Hollywood home where she will be under electronically-monitored house arrest for the next 5 weeks or so. The reason given by the L.A. County Sheriff's office is that, after extensive consultation among medical personnel, it was decided that Paris should be freed. What this means — did she really lose it? Did she suffer an awful herpes outbreak? — we do not know, but we did learn a number of other irrelevant things while watching the press conference, namely, that the heiress did not contract a staph infection in jail, got "some mail" and "was not released" but "reassigned". Anna and Moe discuss the press conference and Paris' release, after the jump. More »

In Favor Of The Homelier Man

Anna Holmes — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:14:39 EDT

Okay, so a few days ago we came across this article in The Sun about women who prefer to date "ugly" men because they treat you better. Said one lady: "I can't imagine anything more boring than classic handsome looks. I prefer no teeth, baldness and piercings to model looks." And, you know, we could totally relate! (Except for the "no teeth" part.) For some reason, around the time we graduated from college [Or, in the case of one of us, dropped out! -Ed.] the whole pretty-boy thing just didn't do it for us anymore. Maybe it was all the self-involved, Johnny Depp-idolizing drama students we came across. Or maybe we just got a clue. After the jump, Anna and Moe discuss the pros of partnering with "less-alluring" men. More »

Boys Who Use The Word Drama: An Investigation

Anna Holmes — Mon, 21 May 2007 06:00:00 EDT

We're sick, quite frankly, of hearing guys who use the phrase "I don't want any drama" to back out of situations in which a female is angry or upset. For some at Jezebel [That would be Anna. -Ed.], use of the word "drama" to describe an argument, confrontation or discussion is enough to create, well, major drama. Why? Cause it's a convenient, cowardly way of rejecting equal responsibility in a conflict. It's also sexist and patronizing. Basically, we don't much like it. More »