In a hilarious essay for The Daily Beast, Sex Rehab With Dr. Drew alumnus Duncan Roy alleges that Drew's a fraud, the show was artificially packed with porn stars, and — most shocking — the experience actually helped him.
Carrie Prejean may have called her sex tape "the biggest mistake of my life," but according to Salon, we are totally over watching celebrities bone.
The New York Observer's Irina Aleksander coins a meme: the Cautionary Matron - basically a generation of women disappointed in their lives and passing on their tales of woe to impressionable youth. But can we handle the truth?
CNN's Ruben Navarrette Jr. says Joe Wilson, Kanye West, and Serena Williams are examples of "a rise in self-centeredness." But maybe the real problem is our desire to lump totally different types of bad behavior into an epidemic.
According to the Daily Mail, women's waists — and feet — have gotten significantly bigger since the 1950s. (Cue regular joke comments on 50's sizing.) So why are we so pleased with ourselves?
The other day, I saw a toddler on the subway sporting a rhinestone-bedecked t-shirt bearing the words "Baby Bitch. Bow Down." I declined her kind offer. But not because, like some people, I think she's ruining society.
If Narcissus were real, he'd be even more full of himself than usual right now — his disorder is plastered all over the media this week.
Have you heard? People are too full of themselves these days! T, The New York Times Style Magazine, has the scoop.
The recession has not hurt Hollywood's booming terrible-portrait business, although the stars make a big show of finding the likenesses embarrassing. They should.
For that Valentine who has everything: customized erotic novels. "If the user prefers to leave their spouse out of the book and replace him/her with a celebrity, it's completely up to them." Thanks. [NYT]
"I still would love to experience life as a pampered princess, at least once." Alas, for "the accidental breadwinner," it's not to be!
Very few people wonder these days why J.P. Weichel and his ex-wife are divorced, ever since Weichel was charged with criminal libel for posts he put on Craigslist accusing his ex of sleeping with her divorce lawyer and beating their child. In fact, sometimes, talking shit about your ex says a lot more about you (and…
"People do not pay attention to me the way they should," says "Cynthia," one subject of "The New Narcissist," Judith Newman's psych-trend piece in December Allure. "I know I deserve to be heard, and when I'm not, I get very angry," she continues. "I think people are frightened of me." Cynthia is an attractive,…
At left, the cover of this week's New Yorker, which features writer Ryan Lizza's take on Barack Obama's early years in Chicago, an article that is somehow totally related to this supposedly satirical illustration portraying Michelle and Barack as Muslim/Black Power extremists who worship Osama bin Laden and burn…
Last night VH1 aired Dr. Drew's Celebrity Addiction Special, and while the show's title would suggest a slapped together rundown of the problems of young women like Lindsay, Britney and Amy, the special was actually a lot more. Dr. Drew looked deeply at how the same narcissism that drives people to celebrity also…
Is the younger generation more narcissistic than we are? Well YEAHDUH, but here's something kind of interesting! See, two scholars are engaged in a hot dispute as to whether all the MySpace/Flickr/tumblr/silvr/U.S.AmericanTopModelChefFifthGrader shit actually causes people to be more self-obsessed. The champion of the…
In two unrelated developments today, scientists have found that women not only eschew men with "macho" features, they gravitate towards men with similar allotments of body fat, which we believe is a clunky and excessively-scholarly way of arriving at the observation that women these days date men who look exactly like…
