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Reality Bites: In Which The Girl Never Has To Play Dumb

Irin Carmon — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:30:00 EDT

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It was remarked recently that you know when you're a grown up when you no longer find Ethan Hawke's scruffy, smart-ass character in Reality Bites charming, but see him as the dirty hipster he is. I don't wanna grow up. More »

What's In A Zine: New Book Explores DIY Feminist Roots

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST

Since the 1990s, zines have played a crucial role in bringing awareness of feminism to young women. But with the publication of a new book devoted to Zine culture, one has to wonder, are zines obsolete? More »

Marc Jacobs Isn't Crazy — He Just Has Issues

Jennifer — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EDT

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"Why is there this division all of a sudden between people in support of me and people against me? How did this happen? I haven't done anything to anybody! I look at Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano—everybody has their shtick. And just because this wasn't my shtick two years ago, it's a problem."

Marc Jacobs is upset. He is also really buff, debatably character-disordered, and, at present, unusually sober. He's practically a psychological case study: A lost little boy with an aching, damaged soul, living in the public eye. (With diamond studs in his ears, to boot.) At least, that's the angle Marie Claire executive editor Lucy Kaylin takes, as she profiles America's Most Important Fashion Designer in this month's issue of GQ. More »

Marge Simpson's Brief Brush With Radical Feminism In The '90s

Slut Machine — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:00:00 EST

Last night's episode of The Simpsons was a flashback look at Marge and Homer's life in the early '90s before they were married, when Homer was in a grunge band called Sadgasm and Marge had a Melrose Place-y hairdo while attending college. The nearly didn't make it, since Marge briefly fell in love with her douche bag professor — a male feminist who tries to tell women how they should behave and who they should be. The Simpsons writers nailed his type perfectly. Clip above. More »

The Ol' Factor: CK Wants You Inside Him, Er... Fuck, He Texted Wrong, He Meant In 2 U

Moe — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:50:10 EST

Once in awhile, by which we mean every Thursday about midway through of the New York Times, a story comes along that is so reedick, on so many levels, its preposterousness reaches a realm of stupidity we'll call metatextual, which is a word we learned (and forgot) back when we were studying for the SATs, which was — yeah, wait for it — the last time we thought about CK One, the apparently revolutionary unisex perfume that captured the zeitgeist and the paradigm shift, the hope and the dreams of a Generation called X: More »