The New York Times has named the winter's hottest party wear trend: the LBJ ("little black jumpsuit" — not Lady Bird Johnson, unfortunately). After perusing the LBJ trend piece, the thinking woman has but one response: stylish, yes, but how do you pee?
Time has done their due diligence and, following the controversy over their very male-heavy Gods of Food issue
There's nothing like a list to get people angry. That much was clear last week, when Time Magazine put together their Gods of Food issue and featured almost no women, inflaming food lovers the world over, as these inadequate breakdowns of "The Best" tend to do. So why do them at all?
What are the United States' best regional foodstuffs? Its worst? These are the questions that bedevil the mind of man—but no longer! For here, we have ranked them. Rigorously scientific (not), ardently researched (nope), and scrupulously fair (not even a little bit): this is the Great American Menu!
First of all: there are men out there who will water down their urine in order to offer their wives "proof" they didn't give them chlamydia.
Of unknown provenance, this breakup list has been going viral, though the sheer quantity and absurdity of the listed offenses draws its legitimacy into question. That said, if this Dear John list is real, we're not quite sure how the now-defunct relationship ever got past the first sign of a non-ironic airbrushed…
The past few years have been good to a cappella. Or maybe a cappella has been good to the past few years. With the release of Pitch Perfect and its super fun soundtrack, the success of Glee's Warblers album and the viral hits of college a cappella groups like On the Rocks, a cappella has gone from Preferred Activity…
I love twee online boutique ModCloth as much as the next girl who loves adorable shit. If I could afford it, my entire closet would consist of various woodland animals printed on rompers and barrettes shaped like slices of pepperoni pizza. Actually, if I could afford it, I'd just have someone size up Zooey Deschanel's …
Fuck, you forgot that it’s Mother’s Day, didn’t you? And now you’re thinking of trying to play it off with a quick phone call and an impromptu recitation of a found poem you’ve cobbled together from an old modernism anthology that you only half-read. Your mom will see right through that, of course, and she’ll be…
Happy Monday. Last week sucked — fuck last week. THAT SAID, the world still has some stuff going for it, and because seeing the great things is not something that comes naturally to many of us, let's take a moment to reflect on how the world is rad and wonderful. Why not? The alternative is to down a bottle of Celexa…
Everyone's so damn afraid of carbs. Over ten years after Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution warned dieters worldwide about the fattening power of the potato, the low-carb revolution is still in full effect. This is insane, because carbs are delicious. Fuck a protein shake, am I right?
I always assume, when strangers ask me extremely basic questions about objectification and entitlement and power differentials, that they're just bozo trolls looking to get a rise out of me for sport and waste the grumpy feminist's time. I mean, it's 2013. Everyone knows by now why we don't have a White History Month,…
It's only been a few days since the controversial firing of developer evangelist Adria Richards
"I tried to match cute little symbols to each man on my list. For example, there was one guy who was an abysmal kisser, so I drew a St. Bernard next to his name." So writes Samantha, one of 109 respondents to my request for details about how people curate the details of their sexual pasts. While the discussion about "the…
Writer and internet fiend Greg Rutter has compiled a list of 66 webpages, sites, memes, and fascinations that you should enjoy before the clock strikes midnight on the 31st. So, you have about a week to truly live this year. ARE YOU WOMAN ENOUGH?
For the spring break of my sophomore year of high school, my father, in an attempt at parent-child bonding, offered to take me on a trip. "Madeleine," he said. "You are young and bright. The world is yours to discover. Tell me anywhere you'd like to go in the continental U.S. and we will go there. Want to go to Oxford and …
A Missouri mother is calling for an end to a really shitty tradition at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, whereby junior boys make a list crudely detailing the sexual proclivities, general hygiene and physical appearances of senior girls. School officials have insisted that they will try really super hard to get to do…
Forbes has released its list of world's 100 most powerful women, and, despite having a strong hand in what many Americans read over the summer, Oprah couldn't break into the top ten (she's glaring at those rarified ten from her perch at 11). Speaking of pop culture giants, J.K. Rowling is waaaay down the list at 78,…
It's surprisingly tough to keep track of all the stuff that can offend people. But we learn as we go — every day is a teachable moment. As such, we've been keeping a running list of all of the -snarking and -shaming we've been accused of over the past year; it is our hope that in sharing it, we can help make the world…
Every couple of years (every couple months, every couple weeks, every couple hours), a new article is released asking that same old post-feminist question: Can a woman truly have it all
Albert Einstein may have been a genius, but he certainly doesn't seem to have been the best estranged husband in the world. In 1914, his marriage to Mileva Marić was falling apart. He proposed they stay together for the good of their kids—but he had a few conditions if they were going to make it work. Letters of Note…
Hey, GQ has put out a new list of "The 50 Most Powerful People in Washington," and there's some good news: A lady is in the top ten. To absolutely no one's surprise, the woman is Hillary Clinton, bad-ass Secretary of State and all around powerful person extraordinaire. She landed the number five spot.
It's June and kids across America are heading off to life-guarding jobs, coal mines, or, if they're lucky, sleepaway camp. Not so fortunate? Here are some movies to watch that will make it feel almost like you're there. [Gawker
A male teenager has been charged with misdemeanor disorderly content for making a list ranking 50 female students, "using racial slurs and ratings of body parts."
"In 1976, I wondered why TIME didn't have a triumphant Patti Smith on its cover," writes Michael Stipe. He also suggests they put her on the cover now. For now, she'll have to settle for being one-hundredth of the annual Time 100 Most Influential People.
Yet another Facebook "hot list" recently made the rounds at a high school — and its author's scary rantings show the connection between such lists and outright woman-hating.
Mine, Citrus County by John Brandon, did not make the cut :( But the annual release of the year's "100 Notable Books" list remains a beloved Thanksgivingtime tradition. Which have you loved, and which should be avoided? [New York Times]
The bros over at Holy Taco ("a guy's bible —a guyble, if you will") compiled a list of 12 totally bizarro vibrators, some of which are downright scary. The angry-looking "talking vibrator" will definitely bite you, no joke.
The Daily Beast presents a list of the 40 most unhealthy of all chain desserts: whether you take this as a prohibition or a handy map is up to you! We'll just say: #27's N/A on grounds of grossness. [TheDailyBeast]
