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Soiled Forever: Kissing Boys Is Like Sex Before Marriage

Anna North — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:20:00 EDT

According to this video, girls who refrain from kissing before marriage will be rewarded with bland Ken-doll husbands and the beaming approval of their incredibly creepy dads. But for slutty kissers, there are only tears. [Feministing] More »

Gossip Girl Goes 2-D

LatoyaPeterson — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:20:00 EST

Yen Press, which publishes a monthly manga magazine, will start serializing a Gossip Girl send up "described as 'an original re-imagination' of the girls' senior year at an elite private school on New York City's Upper East Side." [CBR, WFGA] More »

Whitney Disses Lauren; Maria Sharapova Wants A Clothing Line

Jenna Sauers — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:30:00 EST

Whitney Port isn't in Kell On Earth. And on Lauren Conrad: "We still keep in touch on a friendship level. But in terms of fashion we don't really talk about it anymore because we're not in the same arena." [PopEater]

Do You Judge People By Their Public Displays Of Affection?

Hortense Smith — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:00:00 EDT

The Daily Mail is currently running photographs of Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, who shared a painfully awkward kiss on Oprah last week. I think we're supposed to see these pictures and think, "Their marriage is a sham!" But why? More »

The Ups And Downs Of Having A John Hughes Boyfriend

Hortense Smith — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:30:00 EDT

With teen comedy I Love You, Beth Cooper hitting theaters this weekend (and getting trashed by the critics), I began thinking of teen comedy dreamboats of the past, and decided to break them down, one by one. More »

Is There Any Way To Write A Love Letter Without Sounding Ridiculous?

Hortense Smith — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:30:00 EDT

When Governor Mark Sanford's love letters were released earlier this week (remember that story?) the internet was quick to tear his letters apart, often with hilarious results. But honestly, can anyone write a love letter without sounding really, really silly? More »

Science Says: It's In His Kiss, That's Where It Is

Hortense Smith — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:30:00 EST

According to a study done by Lafayette College researchers, there really is such a thing as chemistry with certain kissing partners. And not just because your partner tastes like your favorite kind of Doritos. More »

In The Gossip Girl Universe, Beauty Is The Local Currency

Jessica G. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:00:00 EDT

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In today's Observer there is a profile of Gossip Girl ingenue Taylor Momsen, aka Jenny Humphries. The profile is like most other profiles of the Gossip Girl cast members: it describes their gilded beauty, their "it" status, their youth. But one part stuck out to me. It's when Gossip Girl executive producer Stephanie Savage says, "With Jenny, there’s that sense of a very intelligent, observant young girl looking around and going, ‘You know, I’m not as rich as these girls, and I don’t have that leg up because of my family, but I’m just as pretty and I think that I’m smarter, so if I play my cards right, I can win this game." I mean, I live in the real world. I know that if you're very pretty, you are more powerful in high school and often, later on in life. But what irked me about Savage's statement is that in the Gossip Girl books, Jenny's not like that at all. More »