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intramural (bad) sports
NARAL's Endorsement Of Obama Is Neither Disrespectful Nor Disloyal
Here's a reminder of what the pro-choice movement is supposed to be fighting: the anti-choice movement. I put this picture up in case you, like a lot of women today, have forgotten that these people are the enemy, and John McCain is their candidate. Because from all the ugly backlash against NARAL Pro-Choice America's endorsement of Barack Obama yesterday, it seems like a lot of Clinton supporters have decided the enemy is Obama/NARAL and not people that are, you know, actually actively fighting to deny women the right to choose. But, hey, why bother tearing down the anti-choice movement, their leaders and the politicians that pander to them when we can just tear other pro-choice Democrats and organizations down? No one undermines women like other women, right? More »
you wanna be on top
Tyra: The First Annual Fiercee Awards
Yesterday, Tyra held the first annual Fiercee Awards, in which TyTy gave awards out to girls from past cycles of Top Model. The "awards" were actually more like backhanded compliments (Ugliest Cry, Biggest Makeover Meltdown, Worst Fall). Not all the girls turned up for it. Actually, it was kinda like the People's Choice Awards, where only presenters and winners showed up. (Except for Jade and Jael. They were nominated for several things, and it was a shutout.) Here are some highlights: Saleisha said she "never ever" got used to that horrible mushroom cap hairdo, Jade was salty, Jada cared way too much, Natasha is still awesome, Joanie maybe got fake tits, Joanie's teeth cost ANTM $30k, Jaslene seems to be struggling with literacy, and the clip of Shandi's BF screaming,"You had SEX!?" still makes us LOL. Clip above, and a list of the awards, nominees, and winners, as well as screen shots of all the girls who showed up, after the jump. More »
today in catalogs
5 Hideous Things Urban Outfitters Wants You To Wear This Summer
The Urban Outfitters Summer catalog has hit mailboxes and there's a world of ugly inside. Oh, not everything is hideous, but there are a few things — sure to be seen on your local hipster — that just seem cringe-inducing. High-waisted shorts, lacy underwear as outerwear, Soviet-era shoes? The offenders, after the jump. More »
you wanna be on top
Earlier: ANTM Finale Live Blog: Arrivederci Cycle 10
ANTM: And The Plus-Size Girl Takes The Cake!
Despite conspiracy theories, underminers, and the fact that some of us thought Anya was actually the better model, we're damned proud of Whitney Thompson and the fact that a plus-size girl finally took the title on ANTM. (Of course, the show is not even close to a true representation of the real modeling industry.) There was something really telling in Paulina's commentary during judging when she said, "Whitney is the one that a man would want in his bedroom, but Anya is the one that you would buy the dress from." The fashion industry is fucked up. Or maybe we're all fucked up. Or maybe we need to stop letting curve-hating gay men tell us how we should look!Earlier: ANTM Finale Live Blog: Arrivederci Cycle 10
you wanna be on top
ANTM Finale Live Blog: Arrivederci Cycle 10
ANTM finales are always bittersweet because we've been working up to this moment all cycle, but then that means that we won't have this ridiculousness that we love to laugh at next week. As far as winners go, I'm rooting for Anya, because the girl can't take a bad picture, and because she seems like a really genuinely nice person. But more than anything, I'd love to hear her try and talk her way through her visits to factories/Walmarts in the "My Life as a Cover Girl" spots. More »
unholy matrimony
Former FLDS Member Who Took Down Warren Jeffs Appears On Oprah
Elisa Wall's testimony — about how she was forced, at 14 years old, to marry her first cousin, and have nonconsensual sex with him — is what helped send Warren Jeffs, leader of the Mormon fundamentalist polygamist sect, to jail. Today she was on Oprah to talk about her experience. She described her upbringing and the lack of education she received, particularly about her own anatomy. Even though she begged to not marry her cousin at a young age, she was forced to go ahead with it, and was given no information about what would happen on her wedding night, explaining that she had thought beds were only used for sleeping, and that the entire experience of consummating her marriage was incredibly traumatic. Clip above.
baba wawa
Barbara Walters Brags About Notches On Her Bedpost On Ellen
Barbara Walters' book tour for her memoir Audition is chugging along quite nicely and today it made a stop on Ellen. Babs joked about the number of sex partners she's had — the subject of which has been one of the most talked about features of her book — and told Ellen that the hundreds of names printed inside the front and back of the book is actually a list of all the people she's banged. (It's really a list of all the people she's interviewed in her career.) Ellen then points to her own name and says, "It was gonna be in my book, but alright." Clip above.
sad young literary baristas
Are Women Better Writers Than Men? (One Hack's Opinion: No, We Are All Hacks.)
Disclaimer: I have no business opining on literary criticism. Namely because this job has rendered me barely literate. Also because the piece I'm about to address with you is written by an old colleague — Choire Sicha — discussing the book of someone I also know — Keith Gessen — and the distinctly New York phenomenon dredged up by his book All The Sad Young Literary Men, which is to say, Dudes Who Write: Why Do They Irritate Us So? Today in the Observer Choire wonders why they all suck so much compared to Joan Didion and Marilyn Robinson. He blames their (small) penises; in a response Choire's old subordinate (and my friend; and Keith Gessen's ... oh Jesus, as she says, "Google it") Emily Gould argues that they are simply too attractive; subjected as they are for the first time to the shallow standards and expectations of what I call the American Titocracy. Like Choire and Emily, and the other Observer writer who also today bemoaned — or celebrated; I don't know — our generation's acceptance of its own "cuteness" as manifested in the way we've taken to short skirts and supporting Barack Obama with our wholest of half-formed hearts — I have complicated thoughts. More »
cover lies
Marie Claire's 'Body Issue' Is All About Making You Feel Bad About Yours
It's officially Summer in the world of women's magazines! Are you as excited as we are for the massive amount of "expert" advice on slimming down and toning up so that you can fit into the perfect $300 swimsuit for your body type? The June Marie Claire "Body Issue" helps us kick off the season with a feature on picking the perfect bathing suit — not by trying it on, mind you, but by forcing us to liken our bodies to those of three female celebrities. (Not surprisingly, those "diverse-bodied" celebs probably all have BMIs less than or equal to that of cover model, Heidi Klum, who, by the way, is wearing Brooks Brothers suspenders and not a rock-climbing harness.) After the jump, find out about hump-hungry female bosses and how to cheap-out (metaphorically and financially) on your friends' weddings. More »
midweek madness
This Week In Tabloids: Jessica Is Dumped; Nicole's In Tears & It's Lindsay's Fault
Welcome back to Midweek Madness, in which we search for actual news amongst the blaring headlines of the weekly celebrity magazines. Today Jessica Simpson has earned herself two covers for being (maybe) dumped by Tony Romo and (maybe) jealous that John Mayer is with Jennifer Aniston. Reese Witherspoon gets a cover because she might marry Jake Gyllenhaal. Nicole Richie gets a cover because her baby daddy Joel Madden was seen sitting next to Lindsay Lohan. And Brad Pitt gets a cover and the headline "Brad Walks Away," because he is pictured, um, walking away. Intern Sharon assists in our thirsty quest for the quench of juicy gossip in In Touch, Life & Style, Star, OK! and Us. More »
clips
Alexandra Michael Is About 28 Pounds Too Fat For Modeling
We used to play a little game called "Arm or Leg?" with the limbs of some of the models in Teen Vogue. (Such as this one.) But today on the Today show, Teen Vogue editor-in-chief Amy Astley announced the magazine's pro-ana days are over. Astley was moved by the story of 17-year-old model Alexandra Michael, who joined her this morning to talk about how she was sent home from Paris for being too fat, but she's okay with that since her hair is no longer falling out after she packed on 30 pounds in eating disorder rehab. And who does Amy Astley blame for the industry's deleterious emaciation obsession? "I think it's cyclical," she says. Ha ha ha, tell that to the kid who didn't get her period for a year!
bad girls club
Earlier: Bad Girls "Boot" Tyra Banks Off Own Show
All Bad Things Must Come To An End
Last night saw the Bad Girls Club season finale, and though the episode started with a screaming match between Tanisha and Neveen, it ended in hugs and tears and words of love between all the girls. If their incessant screaming, fighting and mean girl behavior (not to mention peeing in the kitchen sink) didn't prove how insane they all are, their instant, unexpected turn as best friends sure did. And we're wondering what the hell happened between their group hug at LAX and their two appearances on Tyra, when they were at each other's throats again. We'll guess we'll have to wait for the reunion special (hosted by Star Jones!) next week to find out.Earlier: Bad Girls "Boot" Tyra Banks Off Own Show
crappy hour
Obama Is Winning Because Hipsters Stopped Hating Gwyneth Paltrow
I'm sick of fine presidents and good presidents and mediocre presidents. I'm sick of Rutherford B. Hayes and James Buchanan and Franklin Pierce and Millard Fillmore. We got Barack Obama! Barack Obama, for crying out loud!
That's Win Butler, lead singer of the Arcade Fire and a supporting character in a New York Observer piece predictably self-consciously devoid of the word "hipster." Which is to say, it's a story about my generation and how we hate ourselves but love Barack Obama despite our fears of being associated with the "naive moron vote," or something. The thing is long and reference-redolent but if you're feeling free-associative the tags are BARACK OBAMA and STYLE and BELLE AND SEBASTIAN and GWYNETH PALTROW and THE ARCADE FIRE and TWEE and I scrolled far enough to read "Keith Gessen" and "McSweeney's" when it occurred to me that if there is one thing I'm kind of over w/r/t my generation it's parsing trend stories uselessly analyzing its uselessness in the New York Observer. (Although: no I have never dropped in on a game of pickup basketball.) Look, Thomas Frank's Wall Street Journal column on income inequality is probably a more worthwhile read, because even though Thomas Frank was once associated with anachronistic typefaces I don't think he was ever called "twee," and neither has Megan, who talks sturm und earthquake and minimum wage labor with me ATJ. More »
baba wawa
Barbara Walters Has Been Getting Kinda Nutty On Audition Press Tour
Barbara Walters was on Larry King Live last night in support of her just-released memoir Audition (not that the book even needs much hyping; it sold an unprecedented a quarter-million copies in under a week). Perhaps it's the fatigue caused by the press tour, or maybe it's a newfound embrace of silliness now that she's spilled her guts into that memoir, but Babs is starting to act really strange. She pulled a gag last night by painting her fist to look like a face and talked to Larry in a weird voice. We're thinking that maybe this is an inside joke for the 75+ set. Clip above.
under the microscope
Why Are There So Few Female Scientists?
Sylvia Ann Hewlett is an economist and founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy in New York. She also heads the gender and policy program at Columbia University. On Sunday, a piece she penned was printed in the Financial Times; it concerned a study on which she is the co-author, and it deals with women in the science, engineering and technology fields. The study, which will be published next month by the Harvard Business Review , shows that 41% of highly qualified specialists on the lower rungs of corporate career ladders in these areas in the US are female. But! 52% of highly qualified women working for science, engineering and technology companies voluntarily leave their jobs, driven out by hostile work environments and extreme job pressures. A sexist culture drives more than half of qualified women away. More »
sexplanations
5 Mistakes That "Sexperts" Make When Giving Advice
We know that the only expectation we can count on Fox News to meet is one of disappointment — if not utter, hair-pulling frustration — but its reliable inanity doesn't mean that its immune to critique, particularly when doling out "fair and balanced" sex advice. Today, "sexpert" (if words could be killed off, that would be the first on our hit list) Yvonne K. Fulbright enumerated the "10 Sex Mistakes That Women Make." While Fulbright did provide two tips that we can get on-board with — "the occasional potty mouth can be a passion-inducer" and "don't use sex manipulatively" — the rest is really off the mark. So after the jump, we've compiled the 5 Mistakes That Sexperts Make When Giving Advice! More »
not about the show, sorry guys
