The modeling industry sets up camp at the crossroads of youth & beauty and age & wealth — and moreover, it's an arena where those qualities cleave to the most predictable gender and power divide.
After the comment thread in last night's post about the f'idiotic things men do when attempting to get laid, I was unsurprised that the birth rate was declining in the Western world. But then I read Feministe Jill's epic bad dating stories and those of Salon's Kate Harding and I'm now surprised that we actually manage…
Click to viewPreviously, we challenged Street Carnage's Gavin McInnes to walk a mile in a pair of high heels. He quit after about a block. But later that day, we were able to convince him to meet us at a park in Brooklyn to see if he could do four laps-equaling one mile-around the track. And he did! (And he bitched…
To continue our series of "What it Feels Like for a Girl" - in which we make men do some of the more unpleasant accessories of "femininity" - we decided to challenge a man to walk a mile in our shoes... three-inch heels to be exact. We took Street Carnage's Gavin McInnes - a man known for his unyielding insistence on…
So! For Part 2 of our instructional makeup series, we show you how to take your face from a day look to a night look with help from our good-sport model, Street Carnage's Gavin McInnes. Gavin actually welcomed a baby boy into the world this morning (congrats!), and it warms our hearts that his son will grow up with…
Whenever I'm asked to give advice on applying makeup, it makes me a bit uncomfortable because 1) I'm not a makeup artist and therefore not necessarily qualified and 2) it just seems like something more appropriate had Condé Nast would've actually bought Jezebel. But we've finally worked out a way to create a series of…
Robert M. Baum of the University of Missouri has been conducting research on the Diola people of (what is now) Senegal for nearly 30 years. Despite his many visits and increasing status level within the Diola communities (and his access to male religious leaders and male religious shrines), he continued to be stymied…
Does the smiling bride in this photograph seem ever-so-slightly familiar? That's because this is Margaret Thatcher in 1951, 8 years before she won her first election. In fact, it's before she "prettied" herself up in order to win that election, if the new film Margaret Thatcher — The Long Walk To Finchley and her…
The National Alliance on Mental Illness has announced that while 18 million Americans experience depression every year, one in eight women get depressed, which is twice the rate of depression in men. Twice the rate. In addition, depression hits minorities the most: Middle-aged Hispanic women have the highest rate,…
