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Jamilah Lemieux (aka Sister Toldja) speaks about the power language has to cast fucking as a power struggle rather than a mutual experience. [The Beautiful Struggler, Image via Carlo In The Round Peg on Flickr] More »
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It's surprising that it took more than 12 hours for these emails to arrive regarding the PowerPoint Fuck List out of Duke — but arrived they have. The first one is courtesy of the Ari Golds at William Morris Endeavor: More »
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People of Earth, I'm a grenade. While Vinny, The Situation and Pauly D haven't formally appointed me to grenade status, I'm sure they would if we ever happened to cross paths. More »
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A woman was recently arrested for having sex in a park — she was charged with "public lewdness," but really, haven't we all been there? More »
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• Anne Frank's last surviving "helper," Miep Gies, turns 100 this Sunday. She humbly claims that she has received far more attention than she deserves, and "so many others have done the same." • More »
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This morning, the Today show investigated this confusing new trend in dating on the "Yenta Hour." More »
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Lost in the coverage of Ashley Dupré's interviews with Diane Sawyer and People magazine are a couple of small, likely hard-won tidbits of personal insight that Dupré probably gained from the therapy she is now in. First, that she ran away from home at 17 in mass of anger, confusion and self-destructiveness that included drugs and alcohol, which eventually led her to Florida and her stint with Girls Gone Wild and then to her sexual assault. She says, according to the New York Post, "It caused me to disconnect — with sex, with real relationships." More »
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"Love: Really Now, There Is No Topic More Depressing" is generally the theme of the Sunday New York Times feature "Modern Love," whose most famous installment chronicled the author's efforts to train her husband as she might any other mammal of above-average intelligence. (Other columns have grappled with how hard it is to get into sex when you're a stripper, the profound sense of alienation that follows an unwanted divorce, how dudes today are irredeemably awful and women could potentially be worse, etc.) Yesterday's installment, the winner of a college essay contest, did not diverge from this theme. The author, a woman born in the late eighties, reflects on a few brief years spent dating noncommittal dudes in New York. "Over the summer there was the Jesuit taking a break from the seminary," she writes. He stopped calling after she refused to sleep with him on their third date. Now, clearly, she probably should have known better, since a dude just out of the seminary is not going to want to fuck around on second base (or whatever) but the overall message was kind of creepy-familiar, reminding me of this one time a friend and sometime fuck-buddy asked of me, "Who made you so cold?" More »
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