How Self-Help Books Hurt Women

As The New Yorker Book Bench wryly points out, Kiri Blakeley's Forbes article on why women buy self-help books contains some annoying stereotypes. But it also offers depressing insight into why so many women think they need help. More »

We've Got Mixed Feelings About The Valentine's Day Script

Not long after we posted about the cringe-inducing concept of releasing a movie for women called Valentine's Day on Valentine's day, a tipster sent the entire script to us via email. More »

Valentine's Day: What He's Just Not That Into You Hath Wrought

In February, thanks to a star-studded cast and aggressive marketing, He's Just Not That Into You made $94 million, despite being a gay minstrel show with "desperately needy" heroines and black people punchlines. Guess what? More »

Liveblogging He's Just Not That Into You

"How can you trash a movie you haven't even seen?" someone asked. I explained that I was insulted by the premise, and the trailer. More »

We're Into The Fashions At He's Just Not That Into You

A thousand clichés bloomed last night at the Los Angeles premiere of He's Just Not That Into You at Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The good news? Drew, Ginnifer, Jen and more brought it. More »

Cliché-Laden Chick Flick Tries To Convince You It's Not Full Of Clichés

In a trailer for He's Just Not That Into You, the camera cuts to two black women. One says: “Girl, you better get yourself some ribs and some ice cream because you’ve been dumped!” More »

Why He Stopped Calling: The Definitive Guide, Brought To You By Ex Hillary Supporters

Someone recently directed our attention to a service called "Why Was I Dissed", which claims to help achieve relationship closure by email-harassing "that guy who disappeared" into confessing the reason for his disappearance. But why torture ourselves (and "that guy") when we can learn the truth from the missives of all the Democratic voters currently clamoring for the opportunity to achieve closure from Hillary Clinton? That's right, friends, Web 2.0 has also spawned Nice Try, Give Up, a series of breakup letters by supposed ex-supporters of the junior New York senator that, taken together, provide a comprehensive list of the reasons girls get dissed, a list that any reasonably self-aware woman can probably apply to her own trampled unions and save herself the humiliation of actually having to ask. More »