Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - Posts
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It's been a little over three months since Rihanna missed the Grammys after being allegedly assaulted by her boyfriend Chris Brown. As she more or less announced last week, when she appeared at the Costume Institute Gala in a feisty tux, she's back—and now she has the single to prove it. "Silly Boy," her new song, is a... (To read the rest of this post, please visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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A guest post from Double X writer Vanessa M. Gezari:
I get what you say,
Meghan, about the benefits of broadening the range of publicly-noted
female roles beyond those old standbys, “nurturer” and “supporter.” But
I can’t share your pleasure in the finding that... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at doublex.com!)
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This week, is there a tabloid that doesn't feature Jon and Kate Gosselin of TLC's mega-spawn reality show "Jon & Kate Plus 8" fame? Today, Kate vomited her guts to People, revealing that her marriage to the man with whom she fathered a pair of twins and a set of sextuplets may be deeply...(To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Forget your budding little artists’ portraits of Obama, and check out Michelangelo’s “Torment of St. Anthony.” There’s a fascinating—and somewhat frustrating—article in the New York Times today
about the debate over whether he did, as a 12- or 13-year-old, in fact
paint the portrait, based on an engraving. The controversy has been
raging for 400 years or so, so I was expecting some decisive new
evidence... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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A guest post from Double X writer Latoya Peterson:
You know, screeds like Linda Hirshman's in Double X are why I waffle so much about identifying with the feminist label.
It isn't even that Linda Hirshman is using every ounce of her online persona to... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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The Real Housewives of New Jersey premiered last night on Bravo and it was just as gaudy, Mystic-tanned, and big "bubbied" as any trash-television lover could have hoped. The series, part of a growing Housewives
franchise that also includes New York, Atlanta, and the original Orange
County branches, depicts "real-life versions of Carmela Soprano, loud,
nasal, nouveau-riche wives who raise spoiled children and spend their
husbands’ money in vast marble and onyx starter palaces in Franklin
Lakes, N.J.," according to Alessandra Stanley at the New York Times.
Though Slate television critic Troy Patterson finds RHNJ
the most "synthetic" of the franchise because "the drama queening in
these parts is much too blatantly contrived," Stanley thinks that this
is... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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Though I was not qualified to be a secretary when I was 25 (nor am I
now, 35 years later, based on the super organized executive assistants
I've run into since then), I would certainly have been affronted to be
mistaken for one as Katherine Mangu-Ward wrote she was when she shared an elevator with a veteran newswoman at the New York Times three years ago. The younger woman was quitting a great job, with nothing lined up, to move to Boston with her fiancé... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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A few days late to this one, but author Jennifer Finney Boylan had a great essay in Monday's New York Times about how complex the gay marriage issue becomes one when of the partners is transgender. Because different states have different regulations as to who "counts" as male or female... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at doublex.com!)
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"The World of Womenomics has arrived," announce Claire Shipman and Katy Kay in a breathless piece over at the Huffington Post.
Shipman and Kay insist that as the recession tips the gender
composition of the workforce in favor of women, companies will be
forced to accommodate womanly demands. What follows is some extremely
promiscuous... (To read the rest of this post, please visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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Over at The Root, Lisa Crooms has penned something of a takedown of the recent, very Lysistratan Kenyan sex strike, wherein women, organized by the Nairobi-based Women’s Development Organization, went on an, ahem, handshake-only basis for one week. Their aim, as yet unresolved, was to... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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Politico just ran a pretty intriguing story speculating on why there are so few women in the Republican party, and it definitely rang true for me. A few weeks ago, I went to a GOP lunch at the National Press Club sponsored by the RNC.
The main speaker? A fiftysomething white guy in a suit. Who proceeded to talk nonstop for the next 30 minutes about his impressive political connections (yawn—does he think we know who these people are?), the dire need for volunteers that weekend for a tight race in Pennsylvania (dude, we live in D.C.), and the strange predicament of...(To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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There’s an interesting Gallup poll out today
about whether Americans feel the next Supreme Court nominee should be a
woman. The media has reported on expectations that Obama will nominate
a woman to fill Souter’s seat; but according to Gallup, 64 percent of
Americans “say it doesn't matter to them whether Obama appoints a
woman”... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website, DoubleX.com!)
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