<![CDATA[Jezebel: sassy]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: sassy]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/sassy http://jezebel.com/tag/sassy <![CDATA[Britney's In Prison; Chelsea Clinton Is Engaged]]>

  • Today trial to extend a restraining order against Sam Lutfi, a lawyer testified that he was once hired to free Britney Spears from her father's conservatorship because it's like living "in prison." [Yahoo]
  • Chelsea Clinton is engaged to boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky, according to The National Enquirer. They will marry this summer in a $1 million wedding. [Perez Hilton]
  • The legal battle over Project Runway has come to an end! Weinstein Company has agreed to pay Bravo and NBC an undisclosed amount to move Project Runway to Lifetime. There's still no word on when season 6 may air. [Perez Hilton]
  • The Simpsons will be featured on a new set of stamps. [Media Bistro]
  • In the new Glamour, cover girl Miley Cyrus calls 20-year-old boyfriend Justin Gaston "the best thing that's happened in to me in a long, long time," and adds, "I don't feel like there's anything to hide. And I love [Justin] so much I don't really care." [Perez Hilton]
  • The Obamas gave Queen Elizabeth an iPod loaded with show tunes and photos of her last visit to the U.S. She gave them a signed picture of herself and Prince Philip. [People]
  • Scott Wolf has made it a party of three. His wife gave birth to their son Jackson Kayse Wolf last week. [Star]
  • Someone smashed in the back window of Nadya Suleman's van. [TMZ]
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine has been leaked online a month before it's release. A representative from Fox says it's just a rough cut. [Variety]
  • Hugh Jackman may be coming to your town! The Wolverine premiere will take place at whatever U.S. city gets the most votes in an online contest. [Just Jared]
  • Here are some new promo shots for season 5 of The Hills. [Just Jared]
  • You can listen to Heidi Montag's new song "Look How I'm Doin" at the link, but why would you want to? [Pop Sugar]
  • Josh Duhamel filmed a public service announcement asking people to donate to the Red Cross to help victims of the recent flooding and severe weather conditions in his homestate of North Dakota and Minnesota. You can watch it here: [Entertainment Tonight]
  • TMZ would like you to know that Kevin Federline is still fat, but "Rumors that K-Fed is pregnant are false." [TMZ]
  • The radio audience of The Morning Invasion on Latino 96.3 freaked out this morning when a fake caller claiming to be Chris Brown's dad said Rihanna deserved the beating and was pregnant with Chris' child as an April Fool's joke. Dating violence: always hilarious! [TMZ]
  • Former Sassy editor Christina Kelly is talking about her old interview with Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love in honor of the 15th anniversary of Kurt's death. She says: "The thing that really sticks out about that interview was how he was wearing these little black Keds, like the kind that girls wear, and they had a hole in them. Courtney was like, "He has the number one record and he only has one pair of shoes." And that just sort of sums him up. He seemed happy, but he seemed overwhelmed." [I Heart Daily]
  • "Right now, my favorite thing to write about is love. And breakups. And boys. And feelings. Honesty is a big part of my writing, because when I was younger and fell in love with songs I'd hear, I would always wonder who that song was about. It would have totally broken my heart to know it wasn't about anyone and was just written so it could be on the radio." — Taylor Swift [Just Jared]
  • In her new book Debbie Phelps says she cried her eyes out when her son, Michael Phelps, was arrested for a DUI in 2004. She writes: "Nothing like this had ever happened with him. It was unreal — like something out of a horror movie — with TV clips of jail cell doors slamming ominously shut, dooming the life and career of one golden boy turned loser." [Star]
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<![CDATA[Indigo Magazine Reaches Out To "Real Girls"]]> At a time when magazines are struggling all over, a bit of good news comes to us from Australia, where a new teen magazine, Indigo has found an audience by focusing on real young women.

The magazine was founded by a group of women who were tired of seeing the sexed up, airbrushed covers that were being marketed to young girls: Indigo has a strict no-airbrushing policy and uses non-celebrity girls for its covers, celebrating the "everyday" girl who reads the magazine instead of some 25 year old actress who somehow ends up on the cover of a teen magazine because she plays a 15 year old on TV.

Several other teen magazines in Australia are following Indigo's lead: Sarah Cornish, editor of Girlfriend says that her magazine now documents fashion shoots in order to show all of the work that goes in to making one perfect picture. "We try to be explicit in every way we can now about what's behind a fashion shoot," Cornish admits, "Even one photograph on a cover can take an entire day and we don't want our readers to ever think they could just look like that any day." Of course, part of this movement is involuntary: Australia requires magazines to label airbrushing, a result of the "National Media and Industry Code of Conduct on Body Image, which demands labelling of airbrushed images in women's magazines and the diversification of models' size and shape."

The fact that magazines like Indigo are realizing that young girls don't necessarily want to read about Britney's exploits or Paris' makeup habits is encouraging, and filling a void that has been left open for years. Those of us who grew up in the Sassy era still cling to memories of that magazine with a fierce fondness: it was the only magazine that really captured the teenage voice of the time, unlike its competitors, who insisted upon printing such things as "So like, I totally dropped trou in front of the rents! I was so totally bugged out! I could have died like for sure!" which they seemingly pulled from a book entitled How No Teenage Girl In The World Has Ever Talked, EVER or some such.

And so, by focusing more on everyday life and less on "OMG What Does V. Hudg Have In Her Closet?!," Indigo has found a dedicated audience of young readers, who are drawn to the magazines messages of self-respect, personal beauty, and positive body image. The magazine has also been endorsed by the Butterfly Foundation, an eating disorders awareness group. "When girls flick through the pages of the mag, they can see themselves," Indigo editor Freya Holland says. And what a beautiful thing that is: flaws and all.

Teens Turn A New Page [TheAge]

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<![CDATA[ Do we smell a little competition? Word on...]]> Do we smell a little competition? Word on the street is that AOL is creating a new "lifestyle site" for women in their 20s and 30s and they're looking for an editor "with a broad range of interests, strong writing voice, at least five years of editing experience and an old box of Sassy mags in her mom's attic," according to a listing in JournalismJobs.com, reports Alley Insider. AOL is looking for "someone who doesn't need an extra blue book to tactfully explain why Renee Zellweger is endearing yet freaky, and Amy Sedaris is freaky yet brilliant." Fingers crossed it will be less dull than Yahoo's luster-free Shine! (Click on the picture for the full job listing.) [Alley Insider]

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<![CDATA[Former Sassy Scribe Margie Ingall Loves Dudes With "A Butt Rug"]]> Got a hairy man fetish? You're not alone! Sassy vet Marjorie Ingall goes on for almost 1,300 words about her love for "men with hair. And not just a tasteful little patch, dead-center, either: I like a full-on chestal pelt, hirsute arms, be-furred legs, even a butt rug." (Butt rug is officially my new favorite phrase!) She describes the straight bear type as "primal, manly, sexual," and wonders what other women see in virtually hairless teenyboppers. That chest waxing scene in the 40-Year-Old Virgin must have been traumatizing for Marge. Later on, she wonders, "why do so many grown women skeeve at the sight of male fuzz? Is it because they see hairless men as gentler, more likely to respect a woman's equality? Is a womanly preference for dainty smoothness a statement about our growing economic power and the mainstreaming of feminism? Or does it show our own ambivalence about gender roles?" I can only speak to my personal preference, but I think my distaste for back hair has nothing to do with the mainstreaming of feminism. That shit is just nasty.

But I enjoyed Margie's willingness to cop to an obsession with a way of looking that is outside the alleged ideal. While I am grossed out by aggressive hairiness, I've always had a fondness for the chunk. One of my best friends is exclusively into super scrawny dudes whom everyone else thinks are gay. True story! Essays like Ingall's make me feel fuzzy inside because different perceptions of attractiveness are what makes the world go 'round.

I Heart Hairy Men [Jewcy]

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<![CDATA[The Defendant Will Plead Not Guilty To Negligent Homicide Of 'Jane']]> The esteemed writers of the Sassy book have finally eulogized, all gravitas-y and "dying publications are like leaking balloons" and shit, the magazine we once called Jane. Marisa Meltzer and Kara Jesella subscribe, as a lot of Janeeologists have, to the notion that Jane was the casualty of readers' love-hate relationship with it, which we don't really get because, duh, love-hate relationships are sort of the engine of late capitalism. (Or wait, are we the only ones conflicted about refreshing TMZ 69 times a day?) Anyhow, then we came upon this.

The sassy youthful readers Jane meant to address are still out there. Some have gravitated to blogs like Feministing and Jezebel...
Wait, Jezebel=us, right? Are we even six weeks old yet? We are so flattered! But we totes do not deserve credit for putting Jane out of its er, sorta fun brand of misery! The credit is allllllll Conde Nast's.

A Woman's Magazine That Tried To Be Otherwise
[New York Times]
Related: Jane Bites Dust [Girl With A Satchel]]]>
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