Jezebel: Pink Ladies

Movie Night: Grease Is The Word

Hortense Smith — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EDT

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Hey dudes! Welcome to our first Jezebel Movie Night. Tonight's film: Grease, currently playing on ABC Family in the U.S. (but feel free to pop in a DVD if you're watching from outside the country!). More »

Sail Away

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:40:00 EST

"Lonely is the word for a Friday night with nowhere to go, sitting at home feeling sorry for yourself...I feel like the luckiest girl in the world," wrote 16-year-old sailor Jessica Watson, now two months into her record-breaking journey. [SydneyMorningHerald] More »

The Fun/Smart Divide: Why Books Are Candy-Coated

Sadie Stein — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EDT

It has been suggested that females prefer pink because of an evolutionary preference for reddish things like ripe fruits and healthy faces. We also prefer pink books. Or at least the publishing industry is so convinced of this that to cover their asses they're wantonly packaging any book written by a woman with a chick-litish cover in the desperate hopes that we'll buy it. Says The Guardian's Diane Shipley, "Having cottoned on to the fact that chick lit books sell like cupcakes, publishers are now adding chick lit-style covers to any book written by a woman whether it fits the genre definition or not." More »

Amy Winehouse & Pink Jacket Go Together Like Rama Lama Lama Ka Dinga Da Dinga Dong

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:15:00 EDT

The Mary Kay Way To World Domination

Sadie Stein — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:20:00 EDT

For those who think of Mary Kay cosmetics as nothing more than a pink Cadillac full of mauve lipsticks, think again: when the company's handbook, The Mary Kay Way, came out 20 years ago, Mary Kay Ash's culty brand of get-rich-kinda-quick consumer marketing made it a bestseller. Or, as the blurb would have it, "it was Mary Kay’s goal in 1963 to build an organization that was guided by the Golden Rule and dedicated to giving women unlimited opportunities for success. She considered caring and kindness to be the building blocks of a highly motivated workforce—and the forty-five year success story that is Mary Kay Inc. has proven her right." More »

Pink Lady Scientists Full Of Crap

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:30:00 EDT

Scientists at The University of Newcastle claim there may be an evolutionary reason why women "prefer" red and pink — while boys prefer blue, reports the Times of London. "The explanation might date back to humans' hunter-gatherer days, when women were the primary gatherers and would have benefited from an ability to home in on ripe, red fruits," said a researcher.

While blue was liked universally, this preference stood out among men, the study found. This, too, could have deep-seated natural roots: water that appears blue is more likely to be clean and the colour is also an indicator of fine weather.

We're not scientists, but we'd like to call bullshit on this "study." First: Only men are into good weather and clean drinking water? Second: The participants in this study were British students and Chinese students studying in Britain... students who were clearly socialized and steered toward liking certain colors from an early age. More »

Pink Is The New Flog

Anna Holmes — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:27:30 EDT

Make it stop!!! The trend of marketers thinking that anything remotely 'masculine' — cars, airplanes, pro-baseball caps, guns — has to be pink in order to be attractive to female consumers, continues apace. Today's NY Times "Thursday Styles" reports that Taser International will be offering a more compact, female-friendly (women have such small hands!) version of its self-defense device later this month, which the company has named "C2". And, of course, it's colored pink!

The new C2, as the weapon is called, looks more like a large disposable razor than a gun, comes in a variety of colors and is $350, all of which Taser executives believe will persuade women to add the weapon to their checklist for the evening: lipstick, wallet, keys, Taser.

Sounds perfect for those roving gangs of killer lesbians!!! More »