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  • Why Oprah Is Giving Up the Mic

    Oprah Winfrey is going to announce today that she will be leaving her eponymous talk show in 2011. The New York Times believes Winfrey is resigning from network TV in order to focus on the cable network she's working on, called OWN, which will feature shows from all of her favorite cronies, like Dr. Oz, Rachael Ray, and Dr. Phil. While this might ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Jessica Grose on November 20, 2009

  • Famous Authors on Writer's Block: Junot Diaz's Sweet Spot is in the Bathroom

    A post from DoubleX writer Lauren Bans: Last week the Wall Street Journal interviewed basically every good living writer and asked them to share tips on sitting down and penning a book. The only clear lesson to emerge from the piece (titled ''How To Write A Great Book'') is that there is no set step-by-step instructional for writing a great book. ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Jessica Grose on November 18, 2009

  • Palin's "Going Rogue" and Bristol's Pregnancy

    Emily, I too have been reading the dribbles emerging from the soon-to-be-published Palin memoir. You're right that we mine her for insight on sexual politics, and I was particularly intrigued with the information that the AP published about Palin's reaction to Bristol's pregnancy and the McCain campaign's treatment of that pregnancy. According ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Jessica Grose on November 13, 2009

  • Stupak Amendment Reveals Fault Lines in Feminist Movement

    In reading all the accounts from fellow pro-choice women—like Emily's from earlier this week—bemoaning the Stupak abortion restrictions, I noticed that many of the women who were outraged by the concessions of the health care bill used the terms feminist and pro-choice almost interchangably. Over at Salon, Kate Harding writes, ''Feminists ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Jessica Grose on November 11, 2009

  • Childbirth Becomes an Interactive Experience

    Over the summer, Sara Morishige Williams, the wife of the CEO of Twitter, Tweeted while giving birth. A Minnesota woman named Lynsee has taken the natal overshare to the next level: she broadcast video of herself giving birth on a local social networking site called MomsLikeMe, and interacted with viwers while she was in labor. 23-year-old Lynsee, ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Jessica Grose on November 9, 2009

  • The Revival of the "Bunny Boiler"

    In the past week, the Today Show has done lengthy segments on two women scorned: Ali Wise, the former Dolce & Gabbana flack who hacked into her ex-boyfriend's voice mail account, and the even more psychotic former ESPN production assistant Brooke Hundley, who harrassed the wife and children of her ex-lover, ESPN analyst Steve Phillips. ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Jessica Grose on October 23, 2009

  • Nan Robertson, Feminist Hero

    Like the word genius, the word hero is overused. But I think the term is fitting for former New York Times reporter Nan Robertson, who died yesterday at the age of 83. Not only was she a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, she overcame alcoholism, the death of her second husband, and the loss of end joints of all her fingers (though not her thumbs) ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Jessica Grose on October 14, 2009

  • Polanski's Probation Officer's Disturbing Report

    The New York Times quotes extensively from the September 1977 probation officer's report about Roman Polanski. The report is appallingly sympathetic towards Polanski, describing his rape of Samantha Gailey as ''spontaneous and an exercise of poor judgment by the defendant'' and placing the some of the blame back on Gailey and her mom. But the ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Jessica Grose on October 12, 2009

  • "Couples Retreat" Peddles a Strange Vision of Fear-Induced Monogamy

    A post from DoubleX blogger Lauren Bans: I disregarded the bad reviews and saw Couples Retreat this weekend, mostly because I have a sort of inexplicable faith in the comedy prowess of Vince Vaughn. As expected, it didn’t offer much beyond the Hollywood-happy obvious for the coupled characters who take to a relationship-building resort for a ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Jessica Grose on October 12, 2009

  • Lowest Number of Reported Rapes Since 1989

    According to the FBI, reported rapes are at a 20-year low. 89,000 women reported being raped in 2008, down from a high of 109,062 in 1992. While the data is not available yet for 2009, this is a pretty hefty drop. The USA Today article about these new findings attributes the drop to the use of DNA to catch rapists, who are often repeat ...
    Posted to The XX Factor  by Jessica Grose on October 7, 2009
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