According to internet prophecies (on this site and others), we're on the brink of a national Jennifer Lawrence backlash. She's too charming. She's trying too hard. She's annoying. She's so likeable that we're just fucking sick of liking her. She's problematic. She dressed up like a "fat witch" once, which was kind of…
You know that saying about how if you want something to happen, then put it out into the universe? I'm here to plead to the universe—or the pop culture blogosphere—to quit actively wondering when the Jennifer Lawrence backlash will start, because if you discuss the possibility out loud, you basically guarantee that…
So that Jenny McCarthy "39 and SHE'S STILL GOT IT!!!11" Playboy spread released this month has been getting a lot of play since the new issue hit the stands. On the cover, she wears fingerless black fishnet gloves and little else. To the lower left hand corner, incongruously, is the smaller story "A Night In Paris…
The 60 Minutes interview in which Senator Scott Brown revealed he was abused as a child aired in full tonight, and he's already experiencing a backlash. While many praised Brown for sharing his story, some are calling him a hypocrite for refusing to prosecute his attacker and supporting a politician accused of turning…
Georgina Bloomberg's Olympic speed skater boyfriend dumped her days after she was thrown from her horse during an equestrian competition. What's the classy way to respond? Complain to the media! Backfire-proof.
These days every publication and its dad are asking, "What's the matter with men?" Something might actually be changing in America, but the media doesn't really know how to talk about it.
"To laud Warhol as a prophet of the saturated media culture we inhabit today is to apportion praise according to the perverse logic of our own era, by which we lionize the first person to do anything." [Newsweek]
Apparently we weren't the only one appalled by the Daily Mail's latest exercise in sensitivity: since their inflammatory piece on the late pop star Stephen Gately, the UK's press watchdog has received "a record 21,000 complaints." [AP]
"For the record, I really was roofied, ma'am. [...] P.S. The day I rely more on a boyfriend than on a best girlfriend is the day I lose hope for womankind." — Friend Or Foe letter-writer [Double X]
