Blake Lively's Preserve Is Gone With the Wind, Y'all
Sorry, gals, but soon you’ll have one less place to shop for very expensive “bohemian” skirts to wear to Coachella. Preserve is done—for now, anyway.
The "Southern Belle" Is a Racist Fiction
Sometime between Reconstruction, this episode of MTV: True Life, and the hundred-thousandth wedding held on a plantation in South Carolina, the term Southern Belle became just another friendly identifier to put in your Twitter bio, a throwaway regional label no weightier than Cali Surfer Dude. But the difference…
Anthropologie, Translated As A Southern Gothic Novella
The June Anthropologie catalog looks like a Southern Gothic novel come to life, compete with dilapidated porches, lonesome shores and shoes fit for hardscrabble dusty roads. All that's missing is the story… So we wrote one.
Dine N' De-Crown
Lindsay Evans was
stripped of her Miss Louisiana Teen USA tiara yesterday after she and three friends were arrested for running out on a $46.07 restaurant bill in Bossier City, Louisiana over the weekend. Cops caught up with Evans and her pals after Evans mistakenly left behind her purse and a bag of pot at the…
This Week We Hung Out With A Lot Of Child Molesters
- We were so into the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints and their Yearning For Zion Ranch, where girls in their early teens get married off to gross molesty old men with multiple other wives, none of whom are allowed to wear red because that's Jesus' color.
- Are those teens better, or worse off than the brave …
Hell's Belles: MTV Looks At The Lives Of Young Southern Women
This weekend, MTV aired a documentary about "Southern belles" that kind of freaked out this Northeastern Jezebel. It's shocking that, in 2008, educated women feel like old maids at 24 years old, yet refuse to ask men out on dates. Such is the case with Leigh Ann, who says her greatest fear in life is becoming a crazy…
Princeton Professor: Hillary Clinton Is A Racist Scarlett O'Hara
Melissa Harris-Lacewell's essay about Hillary Clinton on the new WaPo site "The Root" claims that many black women did not vote for Hillary in the primaries because of what she deems Hillary's "Scarlett O'Hara Act." Harris-Lacewell, an associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton, goes…
