Philip Seymour Hoffman's death has been on our collective minds. His tragic passing has drawn both compassion and ire from all sides; it has also inspired a spate of personal essays that focus on the difficulty of addiction and relapse as well as unfounded speculation about Hoffman's mental state and reasons for why he …
This morning, Slate ran a rape prevention piece by Emily Yoffe with the aggressive headline: COLLEGE WOMEN: STOP GETTING DRUNK. Subhed: "It's closely associated with sexual assault. And yet we're reluctant to tell women to stop doing it." The URL of the piece advertises telling silly women to stop drinking is "the best…
Our very own wealthy, psuedo-intellectual Brooklyn-brownstone-dwelling polemic feminist (although, who knows, she might rankle at the label of "feminist") Katie Roiphe's latest piece on Slate, primarily addresses this much passed-around NYT article and the nuances of Facebook flirtations. See, KT thinks it's worse than…
Fewer than 10% of Dutch women work full-time, and face one of the highest wage gaps in Europe—"and they like it this way," says Slate writer Jessica Olien. American women, put down those Blackberries and take note.
Someone writes into XX's "Friend or Foe" column with a question: why does her friend insist on bringing her "bratty and obnoxious" kids — and hubby! — everywhere? After all, "If I enjoyed having kids around, I'd have some myself:"
In a post titled "The depravity of Major League Eating," William Saletan makes the argument that competitive eating - cramming 68 hot dogs down one's throat in a matter of minutes - is somehow like porn. But it's not.
A troubled wife consults Slate's peerless "Dear Prudence." Prudie takes care of sensible advice, so we went ahead and asked a bunch of dead people!
Get your mind out of the pond — we're just talking about The Green Lantern's claim that birth control pills may be harming fish. Want to be ichthyoid-friendly? Use condoms. [Slate]
Last night Matt Dillon was arrested traveling 106 mph in Vermont, and this morning Charles Barkley was arrested on suspicion of DUI. Yesterday, Slate asked the inevitable question: why are so many celebrities bad drivers?
Torie Bosch has a piece on Slate about the joys of celebrating a godless Christmas, something many of us are probably very familiar with.
Slate got a philosophy major named Mark Gimein to apply Game Theory to the problem of Women My Age And Older Who Can't Find Husbands. (What an unusual move, couching Tyra-grade subject matter in grandiose academic terminology!) I read it because I never really understood "game theory" and I still don't, but here's the…
Over on Slate yesterday, Anne Applebaum decided to pose the question, "Where Did All Those Gorgeous Russians Come From?" and then offer an answer: The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered in an era of makeup and Vogue, and, consequently, attractive Russian women! This is a notion of course, that is completely…
Sure, Norah Vincent already did it for her book Self-Made Man, but that didn't stop Slate's Emily Yoffe (left) from trying her hand at living as a dude. Today, the writer relates the story of her time as a drag king. (While drag queens are men who dress flamboyantly as women, drag kings are women who dress as men.)…
The great irony of Katherine Heigl getting quoted saying she was annoyed that all the women in Knocked Up were portrayed as "humorless and uptight" is that she did it in the magazine that last year gave Chris Hitchens a platform for arguing that all women were humorless and uptight. (Hey females, you know what's funny??…
Transcript from a Washington Post website live chat with Slate XX Factor lady politics bloggers Emily Bazelon and Melinda Henneberger: Dupont Circle:"Is this particular chat supposed to be about breastfeeding, or politics?" Emily Bazelon:"Politics, really, but hey, breastfeeding can have its moment." Um, THIS IS WHY PEOPLE …
All those fans of teen abstinence education can suck it. New research shows that "adolescents who had sex at younger ages were less likely to end up delinquent than those who lost their virginity later." The study also showed that identical twins tend to lose their virginity at the same age, proving that there might be…
