October 2010
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If you read one thing this weekend, make it Phoebe Maltz’s explanation of what the Tea Party calls “the new elite”:
But wait! Something has changed, but I can’t quite put my finger on it… Oh oh, I know! The merging of impressive resumes is only possible when there are women with impressive resumes. (Unless the three examples Murray cites are of gay male couples, in...
“I’m NSFW. You’re NSFW. Our innermost thoughts and feelings are certainly NSFW....”
– Ideaschema: NSFW (via tiaramerchgirl)
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"I kissed a boy and I liked it": the rise of...
Earlier this week, I interviewed Bath University Eric Anderson for a story I’ve got in development. Anderson has been pretty prolific lately on the subject of young men and masculinity, but there was one statistic in particular he was eager to share with me.
His most recent study, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior for those of you with academic journal access, found that 89%*...
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“In the group of women I work with – spanning the decades from late twenties to...”
– Real Life is Just Too Damn Lifelike « The Naked Truth (via sexisnottheenemy)
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Ask Rachel: Should I give up on writing?
Leanne writes: Ever since I was young, I knew I wanted to write. Throughout college I basically “packaged” myself so I could go into journalism: I majored in English at an Ivy League college. I wrote at campus publications, I built up clips, I edited, I founded my own publication. I interned at magazines and did relevant work when I could (copywriting, proofreading, being a writing...
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If you read one thing this weekend, make it Eryn Loeb’s ‘My Former Best Friend’s Wedding’:
The distance between our campuses was hardly insurmountable, but it was just enough to be a reasonable excuse. It wasn’t just about the miles that stretched between us; those just made literal the clichéd divergence of our paths, which seemed to me even then like the plot of some...
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Welcome to the Institute for Sweet Valley...
Back when I was doing my undergrad, I wrote an article titled ‘How Sweet Valley Ruined My Life’. It wasn’t very good - all flowery cliches compensating for poorly articulated ideas - but basically, the gist of it was that I felt like I’d been jipped on two fronts.
Firstly, by the promises of what my life as a young woman would look like - hot boyfriends, cool parties,...
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Yet another way in which Gossip Girl is kind of...
Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when doves cry - Prince
One of the nicest things about being an established writer-for-hire is that occasionally editors will come to you asking you to write an article on the very topic you’ve been wanting to pitch for ages, but haven’t found the right angle/venue/news hook for.
And one of the strangest things is when,...
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Ask Rachel: How do I turn work experience into a...
Erin writes: “Hi Rachel, I read your blog often and I really like it. It gives me a good insight into the world of journalism and especially freelancing, which I’m quite interested in.
I was wondering if you could give me some advice - I have been offered work experience at a major women’s magazine. It’s only for a week and it’ll be next year.
I was wondering if...
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If you read one thing this weekend, make it Patrick Brown’s essay on who we’re writing for and who’s listening when we publish our thoughts on the internet:
This is the pleasure of online life, it seems to me. It’s the reason, more than any fancy coding or user interface, that Facebook is so successful. We want to know each other, to see what’s happening in other people’s...
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To speak or not to speak, that is the question:...
I’ve already drawn attention to Beppie’s post on intersectionality and privilege in last week’s “Best of the rest of the internet”, but I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about in more detail here.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term, “intersectionality” is a way of talking about power and privilege that recognises that these...
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Check out my cover story in today's Sunday Life
As a full-time freelance writer, I’m pretty much grateful for any work that’s thrown my way (another month not on the breadline, woo!), but suffice to say there are some stories I’m more fond of than others.
My very favourites possess that winning trifecta of: a) being about a topic I’m very interested in, b) giving me the space to explore it in-depth and hopefully...
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This week’s installment is a bit of a gender-fest, with sprinklings of fashion, creativity and popular culture for good measure.
If you read one thing this weekend, make it Ruth Fowler’s essay on LA’s body dysmorphia:
The saddest thing about living in LA is how quickly you become immune to the freakshow parading around Robertson, encapsulated on The Hills, immortalized in...
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The best of the rest of the internet
This week’s installment is a bit of a gender-fest, with sprinklings of fashion, creativity and popular culture for good measure.
If you read one thing this weekend, make it Ruth Fowler’s essay on LA’s body dysmorphia:
The saddest thing about living in LA is how quickly you become immune to the freakshow parading around Robertson, encapsulated on The Hills, immortalized in...
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The best of the rest of the internet
This week’s installment is a bit of a gender-fest, with sprinklings of fashion, creativity and popular culture for good measure.
If you read one thing this weekend, make it Ruth Fowler’s essay on LA’s body dysmorphia:
The saddest thing about living in LA is how quickly you become immune to the freakshow parading around Robertson, encapsulated on The Hills, immortalized in...
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2928 days later, the kids are alright: a follow up...
A few months ago, at a friend of a friend’s birthday drinks, I had the interesting fortune of running into a bunch of guys I used to know in my teens and very early twenties.
One of them was a friend of a guy I very briefly dated, who circulated at the same parties and the same group of friends I did for a few years. The second was one of the guys I referred to in my post on sexual...
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“[M]y secret theory is that this isn’t the patriarchal possessiveness thing...”
– Interesting thoughts on The Slutadox from Holly @ The Pervocracy.
The same could be said of women when they talk about “man-sluts”, non?
Related: Slut-shaming: it’s not about how much sex you have
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Weekend reads on gender, politics, race, class, science, fashion and pop culture. As you do.
If you read one thing this weekend, make it Phoebe Maltz’s “For all the accusations of narcissism with which fashion gets pelted, the industry has remarkably little interest in making people look attractive”:
But mostly, they miss that the way runway models are made up at a fashion...
