By noauthor • 17 years ago

Because you can’t have one with the other.


According to Sharon Stone, you can’t be sexy and strong and smart simultaneously. At least, that’s what she’s saying when it comes to a potential presidential run by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Strangely enough, following Stone’s line of logic (or lack thereof), we needn’t take her comments very seriously since she herself is considered sexually attractive.
Thank goodness not everyone has Stone’s sense. Props to Daniel Edwards for making a bust of Hillary for the New York Museum of Sex and for preserving the “wrinkles and wattles” that make HRC the fabulous woman she is.
Read the article here, and chuckle at the Ann Coulter aside.


According to Sharon Stone, you can’t be sexy and strong and smart simultaneously. At least, that’s what she’s saying when it comes to a potential presidential run by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Strangely enough, following Stone’s line ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

Gettin bloggy at YO!


So last week my lovely best friend Neela had me come into her job to do a little presentation for the youth summer journalism internship program she coordinated at the magazine she co-edits, Youth Outlook (she is the shit!).
It was most fun and I was so impressed by the young folks that have chosen to give up a few weeks of their summer break to participate in this awesome opportunity. Neela had me come in to emphasize the power of blogging. How if you are a writer today, there are alternatives to getting your word out there and expressing yourself then the traditional ways of the past. There are no more excuses, you got something to ...


So last week my lovely best friend Neela had me come into her job to do a little presentation for the youth summer journalism internship program she coordinated at the magazine she co-edits, Youth ...
By Ann • 17 years ago

The Mother Hips


Check out The Shape of a Mother, a blog/forum where women discuss and post photos of how pregnancy has changed their bodies. Because the vast majority of pregnant (and recently-pregnant) women we see are celebrities, it’s so refreshing to see real women grappling– in a constructive, non-diet-book way– with how motherhood has changed them physically.
Via BitchPhD. (Also check out Broadsheet‘s post from earlier this week.)


Check out The Shape of a Mother, a blog/forum where women discuss and post photos of how pregnancy has changed their bodies. Because the vast majority of pregnant (and recently-pregnant) ...
By noauthor • 17 years ago

S-K on NPR

Hey everyone,
For those of us who can’t make it to any of S-K’s last live shows, they will have a live-online concert through NPR’s Music concert series on Tuesday, August 1 at 10 p.m. ET. That’s 9 for us CST folk.
It’s being streamed from DC’s 9:30 Club and found at www.NPR.org/music. You can download it the next day for free on the site or in the weekly NPR All Songs Considered podcast.
Any speculation on who the media will covet as the next “accessible” feminist rockstars?

Hey everyone,
For those of us who can’t make it to any of S-K’s last live shows, they will have a live-online concert through NPR’s Music concert series on Tuesday, August 1 at 10 p.m. ET. That’s ...
By Ann • 17 years ago

Strong enough for a girly-girl


Just in case any manly-men out there were feeling threatened by racecar driver Danica Patrick’s Rookie of the Year status and admirable fourth-place finish at the Indy 500… Not to worry! Deep down, she’s a girly-girl.
That’s right. Patrick is the spokeswoman for Secret deodorant, which is apparently now strong enough for a woman who allows herself to be packaged and sold as a nonthreatening feminine ideal who happens to drive real fast. Proctor and Gamble must have offered her an amazing amount of money, because prior to inking her deal to represent Secret, Patrick made a point of not endorsing beauty products, choosing instead to lend her name to ads for antifreeze, ...

Just in case any manly-men out there were feeling threatened by racecar driver Danica Patrick’s Rookie of the Year status and admirable fourth-place finish at the Indy 500… Not to worry! Deep down, she’s ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

Body image and race.

Are they related to each other? In my experience, very much so. A study found that white women and women of color both are unhappy with their bodies. Lovely.

Contrary to popular belief, white and non-white women are about equally unhappy with their looks, according to an analysis of 98 studies published in the July issue of Psychological Bulletin. It is the largest U.S. research ever done on feminine body dissatisfaction.
“A lot of theorizing and myths,” along with small studies, have emphasized white women’s poor body images, says psychologist Shelly Grabe of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Minority women, it has been thought, enjoy more sensible, forgiving expectations for body shape. But Grabe and co-author Janet Shibley Hyde find little evidence ...

Are they related to each other? In my experience, very much so. A study found that white women and women of color both are unhappy with their bodies. Lovely.

Contrary to popular belief, white and non-white women are ...

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