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Should you meet your demise in Taiwan, a funerary option open to you is the Electric Flower Car (EFC), a wheeled, neon-lit platform upon which pulchritudinous women strip down to their skivvies for the benefit of audiences...both living and deceased. [io9] More »
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Meredith Woerner - After the success of Bridesmaids, we're stoked for the next big female-centric comedy. Could Clueless creator's Amy Heckerling's rom-com Vamps be the supernatural answer to The Hangover? We spoke with the producer to get the bloodthirsty details. More »
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While the rest of the world dons their fancy hats for the Royal Wedding, we wanted to pay tribute to the great amazing science fiction and fantasy-themed weddings that have rocked our universe. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5797050&view=rss&microfeed=true In a recent issue of Superman, it's revealed that Lex Luthor was reprimanded as a child for stealing 40 cakes. What you may not know is that the supervillain has had a long, terrible history of pastry larceny.… [io9] More »
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While other scientists have been wasting their time trying to cure diseases, one Harvard researcher has invented a device that lets you inhale food vapors. Finally, we're free from the burden of shoving delicious food in our faces! More »
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This year, for the first time, any woman of childbearing age looking to work for the U.S. Antarctic Program has to take a pregnancy test. Testing positive means you won't get hired or will get sent home. Is that legal? More »
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Welcome to part two of my 20 favorite female comics creators of 2010! I've had a lot of great material brought to my attention this year, and there's no shortage of fantastic comics by female creators. More »
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Inspired by an Inception map, Vanity Fair produced this chart detailing SATC 2. Apparently the cultural insensitivity, disgusting consumerism, and offensive lady clichés were just a group hallucination, so feel free to keep liking the early seasons of the show. More »
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This year, the first in which I've done a full year of writing about comics for CSBG, I thought hard about what I'd loved and hated over the year, particularly in regard to the issue of "women in comics".  More »
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For the first time ever, a woman gave birth inside an MRI scanner, allowing doctors to watch the movement through the birth canal from beginning to end. Here's a video with images throughout the process. More »
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You probably heard that NASA announced a groundbreaking discovery that expands the definition of life as we know it. Did you know the lead scientist is a woman named Felisa Wolfe-Simon — and she's young? Prepare to feel inadequate. More »
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Yesterday, it was announced that a new Buffy The Vampire Slayer movie is in the works. Good news! Oh, wait: Bad news. Buffy creator Joss Whedon is not involved. More »
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"Not every fight can get resolved by punching someone in the face…but Spider-Girl's gonna punch somebody anyway, just to make sure." A new Spider-Girl hits stores next week. Here, advance images and a Marvel writer on writing multidimensional female characters. More »
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Disney has created a 3D reboot of Tron called Tron: Legacy. which looks okay. Not okay? The aggressive marketing, especially when it comes to crappy, bizarre fashion-y tie-ins meant for women. Like the Tron shoe. More »
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This incredible flowchart from Overthinking It breaks down the many clichés female characters fall into. Note to writers: The "Mama Bear" and "Vanilla Action Girl" do not count as "strong female characters." More »
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In our Daddy Issues series, a father of a young daughter seeks guidance, hoping to raise a strong woman. He looks to feminism—and readers—for help. More »
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Katniss Everdeen is not here to make friends — she's here to win. In fact, her livelihood depends on it. More »
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When we were eleven, my summer-camp crush and I nerd-flirted by attempting a Vulcan mind-meld. As it turns out, this may be (sort of) possible — and all you need is love. More »
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So, what will happen on tonight's finale? And what happened on the series thus far? Confused? Don't worry—so is every single character on the show. Here's a compilation of what happened and what was asked over six seasons. More »
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In 2008, I was seeing a seductive, thrilling lover who often mysteriously disappeared, leaving me with hundreds of unanswered questions. In other words, I was watching Lost. We broke up; I vowed never to watch again. Now the show's ending. More »
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In February, at a panel about "embarrassing" products and women, someone mentioned that menstrual blood is rich with stem cells. Comedian Sarah Haskins quipped, "one day we'll all be living on period farms." Good news: That day is almost here. More »
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We've heard that "dead is dead," but in the land of Lost—with ghosts, alternate timelines, reincarnation, etc.—that's not literal. Still, that hasn't stopped the show from killing off hundreds in its six seasons. Here, a complete roundup. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5540925&view=rss&microfeed=true With three episodes—and candidates—left, Hurley has turned out to be central to Lost's story and much-needed comic relief, breaking up the tension with a well-timed "dude." Actually, he's said "dude" a lot in the past six seasons. More »
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Watching this reel is like having a series of quick-hit emogasms. Granted, true Lost freaks should know what the number-one moment is, seeing as it's the greatest love story of our time and all. Nerdswoon. More »
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The Pyramid Collection catalog promises "myth, magick, fantasy and romance." And it delivers: Vampires, faeries, Regency-era heroines — the gang's all here! More »
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The final Lost cast photo has been released, and supposedly contains a clue to the finale. Titled "Final Flight," the picture features someone who's died and is missing one very important character. What does it mean!? We have a theory! More »
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In addition to "live together, die alone," Sawyer's "son of a bitch" has become a Lost catchphrase, employed when he's angry, happy, confused, injured, and as a greeting—it's like his "aloha." All of them, after the jump. More »
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Ever since crashing on the Island in 2004, Claire has obsessed over two things: "Chahlie" and her "baybee." Alas, "Chahlie" is dead and her "baybee" is always missing — and that's all she's been talking about for six seasons. More »
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1:16pm, EST. MSNBC. More »
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A German company called First Androids [NSFW] has created a sex doll that breathes and has a pulse. It's just like a real woman, only with no brain or corresponding ability to reject douchebags. More »
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A UCLA Film & Television Archive series kicks off tonight, looking at prison flicks, biker pictures and slasher movies — made by women. It's called "No She Didn't!: Women Exploitation Auteurs," and features some hard-to-find titles with interesting themes: More »
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One of the best parts of working in a library is stumbling across weird items in the discard pile; occasionally, you come across a gem like this one: "A Study Of Women As Space Flight Candidates" from Space World magazine. More »
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Right around the time when I was sneaking into clubs to dance spasmodically to Binary Finary, back when Radiohead was releasing albums without any guitar, DJ Goldie was in that David Bowie movie, and everybody was wearing really absurd pants, I would have totally seen a market for light-up clothes. More »
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Lovable Jorge Garcia — Hurley on Lost — was on the Bonnie Hunt show today. Jorge started out discussing how hard it is not to laugh when shooting intense scenes, saying: More »
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Meet HRP-4C, a model who will be walking the runway in a Tokyo fashion show on March 23. Unlike most fashion models, she's only five foot two. And her body is made of metal. More »
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I promised you all some more Lara Stone, and I haven't delivered. But read on for a spot of mid-afternoon nudity, S&M, red-lit bedrooms, a boy in a cage, and the ethereal, horrifying Lara. More »
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As is her wont, the Atlantic's lightning rod cultural critic Caitlin Flanagan has weighed in on womenfolk: in this case, Twilight, the teen vampire phenomenon that's sold millions of books and, according to the Associated Press, is redefining the chick flick. In an expansive essay on girlhood, innocence, imperiled innocence, sexuality, her dislike of YA books, her love of YA books, and the power of fiction, Flanagan examines "What A Girl Wants". What does she want? Well, it's simple. More »
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Did you see Twilight this weekend? You must have: The vampire flick raked in $70 bloody million at the box office, the top debut ever for a film directed by one woman. And it's official: Women love vampires. The folks at iVillage interviewed a professor who claims it has to do with "the erotics of anticipation," controlled passion and the "deferral of any type of sexual consummation." Sure, sure. But also: Something about blood and danger taps into the primal part of us and whispers, "sexy." Or at least: "Cool." But Edward from Twilight isn't the only undead game in town: After the jump, find seven bloodsuckers that make him look like a mosquito. More »
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A piece in yesterday's Times described the frenzy surrounding the appearance Robert Pattison, the star of Twilight, at a mall in Pennsylvania last Thursday. Squealed one tearful girl, "He was this close...Close enough to bite my neck." I guess this was fresh on my mind the other day when I met up with a young teen whom I've known since she was born - a smart, independent 15-year-old. I asked her if she was a fan of the Twilight phenomenon, and her face grew stormy. "I've never read them," she said. "I can't stand these stupid girls who just follow the trends." And I knew exactly how she felt: because for every group of girls screaming at a mall appearance, there's an equally fierce group of deliberate trend-buckers, defining themselves by their scorn for what's popular. More »
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