I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.
Angelina Jolie goes public about her double mastectomy, explaining how women’s health issues don’t affect womanhood. Read it.
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Met Ball. Jennifer Lawrence photobombs Sarah Jessica Parker.
Clearly, the Internet thinks this is amazingly cool. Here’s why.
Carly Rae Jepsen definitively tells the Boy Scouts not to call her because of their anti-gay policy.
They are the scraps of humor actual comics left on the table a decade earlier in their careers after they learned that playing to people’s dumbest, most stereotypical assumptions is not actually the same thing as joke-making. But the laziness of MacFarlane’s brand played particularly poorly at the Oscars given the movie industry’s very real problems with both women and derivativeness, in a celebration of what’s supposed to be Hollywood’s best, the things that the profits of things like The Avengers make it possible to keep in production.
Fox News wasted 4 and a half minutes today criticizing Adele’s and Kelly Clarkson’s weight. Prepare to be outraged.
I’ve always been disgusted by the way that performance, in which Justin Timberlake ripped off part of her costume, leaving her breast exposed, got reduced to a “wardrobe malfunction” and associated with Jackson, rather than with Timberlake’s actions. The image of her, shocked and covering herself up, with Timberlake beside her sporting a serious case of sexyface is upsetting and uncomfortable. In the years that followed, the Super Bowl defaulted to a heavy rotation of old, white dudes, though that didn’t exactly save the game from sexualized incidents like Bruce Springsteen’s camera crotch-bump […] Now, nine years later, Beyonce’s being allowed on the halftime stage, not as part of a band, not as backup to a white woman whose sexualized antics are so familiar and tired that they’re amusing, but as her own fantastic, pop-culture dominating self.
Alyssa Rosenberg on what Beyonce’s Super Bowl halftime performance in 2013 will mean.
