The XX Factor : Gloria Steinem

It’s a Baby Woman

Bonnie Goldstein — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:20:00 GMT

If you're reading this you already know that Double X , the new magazine from Slate Group , about "what women really think" launched today. Double X inherits a legacy of women's content that spanned decades of comfort food factories such as Ladies' Home...(read more)

Gloria Steinem to Get Tramp Stamp?

Susannah Breslin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:06:00 GMT

This from an interview by Joni Evans on wowowow.com with Gloria Steinem, 75: wOw: In your wonderful book, Outrageous Acts , you advocate that we should do something outrageous every day. Your quote: "Once I began to listen to my own authentic voice—or...(read more)

Cable's Loveliest Lesbians Say Goodbye

Jessica Grose — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:47:00 GMT

A guest post from intern Margaret Johnson: Sam , I was psyched to watch Being Erica Thursday night after your glowing recommendation, but I was on a plane at the time, and JetBlue's 36 channels of Direct TV apparently do not include the Soap Network....(read more)

Palin's Inflation Problem

Dahlia Lithwick — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:57:00 GMT

Susannah, thanks for the great posts and welcome! Please forgive me if I suggest this Flight of the Conchords song as background music for this post, just because reading your post about the Sarah Palin blow-up doll made me think of their genius lyric:...(read more)

My Own Private Sarah Palin Love Doll

Susannah Breslin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:55:00 GMT

Today, I received my Sarah Palin inflatable love doll in the mail. I'd heard about the " This Is Not Sarah Palin Inflatable Love Dol l" a few weeks ago, and when Topco Sales marketing director Desiree Duffie offered to send me one, who was I to say no?...(read more)

Macaca Pancakes, Yum!

Melinda Henneberger — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:41:00 GMT

Granted, Tim , the timing is convenient for Patti Solis Doyle's mommy crisis. But couldn't both versions of events be true for Hillary's former campaign manager? Say your life's work is going down in flames—to the point that One Life to Live seems more...(read more)

But how DID Hillary become a US Senator?

Anne Applebaum — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:34:00 GMT

Meghan, Chris Matthews was more interested in being nasty than being right. But isn't there something to the fact that the reason Hillary's a US Senator, the reason she's a candidate for president...is the fact that her husband was president at all? Reverse...(read more)

Gloria, Hillary, and Feminism Revisited

Meghan O'Rourke — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:14:00 GMT

Dahlia (and others): I don't think your point and mine are mutually exclusive. I certainly agree that sexism/the death of feminism is not why Hillary lost Iowa; she lost Iowa, and Obama won, for the very reasons you point out: Obama represents the possiblitiy...(read more)