This Election Isn’t About Me, It’s About…Hillary?”

Get off your knees Joe Scarborough. Barack Obama straight up stole the line – “This election isn’t about me, it’s about YOU” – in his keynote DNC speech from Hillary Clinton’s rhetorical arsenal. This is what she has been saying all freaking year, people! Verbatim. I just may vote for John McCain, especially if his [...]

Mad Women

O my, why are we obsessed with Mad Men?! 
Thursday’s Child and I were recently having a lively discussion about Betty Draper and why she’s such an evil bitch on the show. We ask, why do the writers portray her as an entitled spoiled wife who resents her children, as opposed to a sympathetic woman whose [...]

Women & Diminishing Returns

Last year, an enterprising, twenty-something female advertised herself on Craigslist as a potential wife for a wealthy (500k+/year) New Yorker. The ad was quickly re-posted on Dealbreaker, and attacked by self-righteous financiers. While her ad (re-posted below) was a total joke, the men’s responses were far more outrageous.
A male friend recently confessed to me that, [...]

Major Article on the “Powerful” Women of F.L.D.S

Got to check out an article on F.L.D.S in the New York Times Sunday Mag preview, the slide show is great too. Consider whether these women are powerful or not in the eyes of the state, U.S. citizens and the men of their community.

As if the thought of graduating wasn’t scary enough….

Poor Economy Slams Brakes on Women in Workplace, published in today’s Times, provides twenty-somethings reason enough to go straight to grad school and skip that whole ‘real world’ thing. Then upon graduating, maybe getting a Ph. D, marrying and quickly having children?
Is this recession big enough to displace women from the workplace, and get them [...]

Shake Your Money Maker?

So, I must admit, after reading Judy Blume’s Forever and after watching the classic 90s hit Little Giants, I’m feeling a little nostalgic.  

Coining the Phrase

 
This week I chose to read the essay “Who’s Laughing Now? A Short History of Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre” by Cris Mazza from Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young’s compilation.  In it, Mazza talks about the origin of the phrase Chick Lit with reference to its ever changing (and in her mind, [...]

Response to NY Mag Post-Fem Article

“The past few months have been like an extended consciousness-raising session” – Amanda Fortini
This quote from this week’s New York Magazine’s article titled “The Feminist Reawakening: Hillary Clinton and the fourth wave” iterated a feeling that I have been having since my friends burst into my room and asked me to do this chick lit [...]

What the heck IS a Lipstick Jungle?

OK, so I have figured it out – I think. The book ends with the sentence “It’s a jungle out there…No…It’s a Lipstick Jungle” (435). We were all kind of wondering what this term actually means and to me, this sentence tells all. The book keeps talking about how NYC is the only place where [...]