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The Cosmos
"10 Questions You Can't Ask Anyone" was the tantalizing Cosmo Girl!cover line that won our hard-earned $3.49 this month. The touted story is a Nancy Redd advice column that addresses the usual array of teen "ick!" topics — stretch marks, itchy asses, third nipples. (One in 20 women have one!) But then there was this one, uh, unexpected question that for some reason doesn't seem made up. (Click the pic to see.)
This month's CosmoGirl! coverline: Maybe Pete Wentz was not exactly the right celeb to call for an empowering quote re: rejecting the media's unattainable beauty standards? (Click on image to enlarge.)
conversational jewelry
Atoosa Rubenstein: Don't You Just Hang On Her Every Word?
Atoosa Rubenstein. Have you been DYING to know what's going on with everyone's fave "Alpha Kitty" her since she broke free from the confines of her job editing Seventeen and went feral?? Well, surely you know some disenfranchised teen with a big dream who has been DYING to know what she's got up her poufy sleeve. Right? She's big with the teens! Right? She had that whole MTV show , yes? "I left [Seventeen] because I realized that I was stepping farther and farther away from the journey that was meaningful to me," she says. Well, um, the New York Times exposes her New Media plan for conquering the girliverse and it... involves drag queens! Drag queens are hot right now, right? More »
the prom-industrial complex
Creative Writing Contest: How I Went To Prom And Soiled The Pretty Pretty Dress I Found In The 2007 'Cosmo Girl Prom'
We here at Jezebel spend a lot of time longing for a time when we weren't so goddamn bitter and sardonic, and from your heartfelt comments and feedback we think you readers can help. Flipping through the latest issue of Cosmo Girl PROM, we had an idea along those very lines: a themed creative writing contest! Specifically, a creative writing contest about how you lost your virginity at prom, in the voice of one of the nubile maidens in the prom dress advertisements we have posted after the jump. Think of it as a chance to restore our philosophical virginity...or better yet, think of it as joke porn! Send to tips@jezebel.com before this time next Friday to win...prizes we will determine at some point next week. Here's our (idiotic) sample entry, from the morning BEFORE prom, to get your creative juices shoo-, uh, flowing:Soooo tonight is the most important night of my life... junior prom.... I was going to wait until senior prom but my feelings for brian have reached such a smolder that to not consumate our feelings on this balmy night would be like i was cowering before my true identity...never in my life have i felt so feircely ME as i did when I first slipped on this ravishing coral gown which is NOTHING like the skanky short dress i wore for homecoming because it shows just a sliver of leg which is symbalic for how i have evolved as a woman...More »
