Sheesh, There's a Reason Women Are 'Totally Crushing It' at the Confessional Essay
It’s not a good reason, either!
When Everything Is Bullying, Nothing Is Bullying
Two weekends ago, after Beyoncé released a mythologically forceful visual album that attached the most significant art of her career to the narrative of her husband Jay Z cheating on her with a woman she called “Becky with the good hair,” the fashion designer Rachel Roy—presumably operating of her own…
The Outrage Over People Potentially Being Mean on News Genius Isn't News
In 2013, the lyric-explanation website Rap Genius rebranded simply as “Genius,” and announced that it would try to annotate not only songs, but poems, essays, and news articles. Three years later, the startup has become a flash point in the panicked and disingenuous hustle to scrub the internet of unkindness, which…
Genius Annotates a Pitchfork Review and Every Music Critic Bursts Into Flames
Welcome to hell: today Pitchfork ran a review about the debut major label album by Wet, a Brooklyn band that some of us at Jezebel like and some of us don’t, which is all very fine by the standards of human agency. Because music critics are called “music critics,” the review, by Katherine St. Asaph, was somewhat…
Sorry, Dolphins Are Not Geniuses
Forget what you were taught about their big brains and those clicky noises they make: dolphins may be smart, and they certainly greatly inspired Lisa Frank, but they're not brilliant-smart.
Blonde, Self-Tanning Essex Teen Girl Has Higher IQ Than Einstein And Everyone's Annoyingly Surprised
16-year-old Essex student Lauren Marbe, who took the MENSA test for fun with other students from Roding Valley High School in Loughton, scored a 161: one point higher than the MENSA scores of Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Albert Einstein. In the UK, the average score is around 100. Awesome. I live for this shit.…
McQueen's New Designer: "I Can't Try And Pretend To Be Him"
"His ideas came from everywhere. It was never about, ‘Oh let's look at the Seventies,'" says Sarah Burton. (Why, whoever could she mean?) "Lee was about feeling, and he was a storyteller. It has to come from within you."
Cleavage Caddy Keeps Those Old Lipsticks Snug Between Your Boobs
File under things you never knew you needed: The Cleavage Caddy is an insert for your bra which helps secure all the crap you obviously shove down there. With so many colors and styles, it renders the Purseket obsolete. [MixedTape]
New Reality Show Features Genius Kids — Minus The Tears
Next Wednesday, a game show featuring gifted children competing for cash will premiere on Fox. But Our Little Genius leaves some wondering whether the pressure is too much for a kid to handle.
The April Elle: To Be A Genius Is To Be Privileged, Expensive
The "Genius Issue" of Elle has hit newsstands—-and no, it's not full of Mensa members in Missoni—-just strange fashion, insecurity increasing beauty and of course, cover lies!
Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
Do society's expectations destroy geniuses? So says the ubiquitous Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love (which we promise not to bash at all in this post).
Well, Is There A Scientific Link Between "Genius" And "Shithead"?
We are all suckers for learning that something going on in our brains is linked to something else going on in our brains — the brain is sorta navelgazing that way — so when a new much-emailed New York Times story said a rare form of dementia had been credited as the source of late-onset waves of sudden creativity, we…
