The latest Teen Vogue with Pretty Little Liars star Lucy Hale on the cover worryingly espouses using dieting to achieve “Your Best Body”.
Minnie Mouse meets beatnik meets Gala Darling is the latest “blog girl” trend.
A superb 2004 Andrew Denton interview with media darling/mogul Ita Buttrose.
Charlie Glickman on the perils of alternative male and female sexuality.
Pop music=guilty pleasure no more. (However, stay tuned next week for an alternative view on this subject.)
Girl with a Satchel laments the unattractive “View from the Glossip Stand” in Zoo’s UnAustralians of the Year feature.
“Stereotyping is a fun and useful tool… to categorise interests and make harmful blanket statements” about your favourite magazines. For example, Lula is for those who “never spend money on U.S. fashion magazines because they just don’t ‘get it’; they’re so dull”, while Details has “a strong Patrick Bateman vibe”.
More on Gwyneth Paltrow’s unlikability, this time from New York Magazine:
“Gwyneth is also kind of a jerk. Her perfection is judgment on the rest of us, and she makes this known in interviews and on her lifestyle website, Goop, the tone of which suggests a domestic personality just one degree shy of Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest.”
The Freudian nature of the vampire.
How women are reclaiming “bitch” as their own.
New research indicates that women’s bodies may protect themselves from rape. And so opens a whole other can of consent worms…
“Are Music Video Girls Exploited?”
This article puts to the rest the “you can’t be both beautiful and smart” way of thinking.
