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If admitted misanthrope Liz Jones can overcome her aversion to the homeless to learn the true spirit of Christmas, can't we do the same? More »
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Quentin Tarantino's long awaited so-called "masterpiece" Inglourious Basterds opened today at Cannes, and although reviews of the film are varied, most seem to agree that it isn't his best work. More »
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Over at the Guardian, Annalisa Barbieri addresses a reader question: "what should we call our daughter's genitals?" More »
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Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert recently gave the Guardian the kind of interview that is a lesson in the dangers of, well, interviews... coming off as entitled, ditsy, and bizarrely lacking in self-awareness. More »
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Kira Cochrane of the Guardian is a rare breed of diet blogger: she pretty much thinks she looks fine, so she doesn't really feel like dieting. In previous columns, she's eaten muffins and "graciously refused" to work out with a medicine ball. This week, she planned to diet, but didn't. Kind of sounds like our lives. [Guardian] More »
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The Guardian's Sunday magazine, the Observer, devoted almost every article this past weekend to the state of feminism in Britain, and the picture they paint is pretty bleak. The lead essay, by 39-year-old Rachel Cooke, claims that the gains made by earlier feminists are quickly losing ground. "Are we going backwards? Are we not waving but drowning? Yes, in a word," Cooke writes. More »
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In the Guardian today, a prostitute named "Lara" wrote an essay about why Johns should not be prosecuted. The argument boils down to narcissism, as Lara says that she and her family benefit vastly from her sex work, and that's why her customers should not be prosecuted. Lara rails against a survey of the "off-street sex industry" called Big Brothel, which found that many of the women had been raped or abused while on the job, and that many had also were addicted to drugs and alcohol. Lara's entire problem with the piece is that she's not like those prostitutes — she's never been raped! — so why should her livelihood be hurt by going after Johns? "I do not have a pimp, and nor do I feel the need for 'coping strategies'. I am not au fait with drugs and drink only on social occasions," Lara writes. Well isn't that nice for her! Next, she tries to rebut the statistics in the Big Brothel study with purely anecdotal evidence. More »
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For decades, a secret stash of Victorian books languished in the Cambridge University library tower, and naturally, students thought they were filled with high-grade bonnet-wearing scat porn. Well, librarians, bolstered by a million-dollar grant, finally sorted through those dusty tomes, and though the books were from the Victorian era, unfortunately they weren't very sexy. The books were, in fact, self-help manuals, advising polite English ladies and gentlemen on how to conduct romantic relationships, and today, the Guardian summarizes several of the books, all of which have the most fantastic titles, like Hints on Matrimony by a Practical Man, Flirting Made Easy and The New Letter Writer for Lovers, which provided templates for letters specific to certain romantic entanglements. What should a man do if he only met a woman once, but felt it was love at first sight? Check out the steamy suggestions, after the jump. More »
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Responding to yesterday's article about The British Fashion Council's creation of a "Model Health Inquiry", writer Zoe Williams weighs in with some choice thoughts of her own, namely, that models are already amply protected by law and that any attempt to regulate their treatment at the hands of evil-minded fashion editors is totally sexist: More »
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Poor models! In response to the uproar over their alarmingly emaciated physiques, the catwalkers are about to have working regulations imposed on them (and their employers) by the British Fashion Council. Lady Kingsmill, chairwoman of the Council's Model Health Inquiry, had some interesting things to say to today's Guardian, namely, that in the future, models may be able to sue fashion designers and magazine editors if they feel their health has been endangered. (!) In addition, says the paper: More »
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England is so full of frigid, uptight, misinformed men and women that London has had to open an "academy for sex and relationships". Called Amora, the museum-cum-exhibit-cum-sex school (Hee! We said "cum"!) is said to offer Britons everything from a resident sex therapist to crash-courses on lovemaking techniques, including really kinky things like, you know, spanking and shit. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=253363&view=rss&microfeed=true We're not really into the whole aggressive self-acceptance thing, which is why we are much abashed to declare that we effing adore talk-show host Tyra Banks, who was profiled in yesterday's Guardian: More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=252590&view=rss&microfeed=true According to The Guardian hips may be hip again this spring when tulip shaped skirts show up in stores. Not likely this trend will take off since women have been taming their curves for generations, but if you're tempted, proceed with caution. Tulip skirts, like last season's balloon skirts, are not for everyone. They work for those who are lean above and below the skirt leaving one to imagine that there's a shapely little bum hiding underneath. http://www.guardian.co.uk/style/story/0,,1964133,00.html More »
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