Victoria's Secret and the Slow Death of Retail's Male Gaze
Last week, Victoria’s Secret CMO Ed Razek casually told Vogue that the chain lingerie store doesn’t market to plus-size…
Fifteen Years Later, Still Lost in Translation
Lost in Translation, reads the opening title, as if translation were a place, a city with streets to wander and…
Harassed Out of Hollywood: A Veteran Stuntwoman Reflects on Life in the Movies and on the Blacklist
Throughout the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, Jean Coulter was a leading stuntwoman in Hollywood, racking up hundreds of credits…
Michael K and the Disappearing Celebrity Blogger
You know when you really like someone, a lot, to the point where it becomes your life’s work to make them notice you,…
Meet the Woman Who 'Went Viral' for Supposedly Breaking the NBA’s Locker-Room Reporting Barrier
When Jane Gross became the first woman reporter to enter an NBA locker room in February of 1975, it merited a mere…
'The Nihilistic Horniness of a Good Gothic Read': Ranking the Genre's Sexiest and Scariest Secrets
Like many American girls, I was still in elementary school the first time I pilfered a copy of Flowers in the Attic and…
Something Is Wrong in This House: How Bluebeard Became the Definitive Fairy Tale of Our Era
A door that locks without anyone touching it, rendering escape impossible. A large man who overpowers, beast-like. A…
Mourning for the Void
Last December, a former Def Jam music executive named Drew Dixon told The New York Times that Russell Simmons raped her…
A Decades-Long History of Hollywood Getting Away With It
Hollywood is built on a graveyard of indiscretions that either went unreported or ignored. This was never more clear to…
Life Before Roe: The Story of a 'Back-Alley Abortionist'
Last summer, I received the first of a string of emails from Joseph Blaine, a man who wanted to share his story with…
The Story of Peggy Claude-Pierre, the Eating Disorder Healer Who Promised Everything
In 1994, Margaret Bruce, the mother of David Bruce, a toddler who wasn’t eating, caught an episode of 20/20 about Peggy…
A Murky Scandal Involving a Powerful Punk Rock Dharma Teacher Is Dividing a Major Buddhist Community
On July 16, in the middle of a dharma talk in Venice, California—the kind of talk he’s been giving for decades, first…
The Nipped, Tucked, and Photoshopped Revelations of Instagram's Celebface
In 2006 Dove was on a mission to show the world “real beauty.” As part of an ongoing campaign to make women feel…
The Dead Girl Killed the Rom-Com
In Alice Bolin’s book Dead Girls, she describes going to a karaoke bar by herself, soon after moving to Los Angeles.…
Stronger Than Yesterday: The History of the Women-Only Gym
“IF you are a size 14 YOU CAN be a size 10
The Making and Unmaking of Iggy Azalea
During the summer of 2010, Iggy Azalea lived free of charge in a guest house in Los Angeles, courtesy of Polow Da Don.…
The Rising Gore Girls of Instagram
Like most makeup bloggers with hundreds of thousands of followers, Kiana Jones gets stressed out over the never-ending…
A Fictional Guide to Surviving the End of the World
Here’s the thing about the apocalypse: You don’t know when it’s coming. It’s an obvious truth, yet it’s what grants the…