Woe Be The Lady Role Models

…For they shall be ripped apart. And no one, it seems, is immune. Not even Tina Fey. The very first piece of commentary I read about Tina Fey’s new book, Bossypants, which Barbara wrote about last week, was in Newsweek. And, written by Jezebel founder Anna Holmes, it was fairly critical. Check it: Edging up [...]

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Cranky Pants and the Girl Ghetto

Something struck me  as I clicked on the salon.com daily newsletter in my inbox Wednesday and it totally pissed me off. Now before I go on, let me assure you that I love salon.com, that I’ve been reading it ever since Dave Talbot started it before the idea of digital journalism had even hit the [...]

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Sexy Katie

Amid all this talk about whether women need to be more like men to make it in a man’s world, along comes Katie Couric in a sexy fashion shoot for the March issue of Harper’s Bazaar, due out Feb. 16. Guts ball — or career poison? Does it diminish her credibility or, in an unexpected [...]

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And the Justice Wore Red

Is there something to be said about fingernails painted fire engine red? Stay with me here, because I think there is. Some months back, we wrote about the condescending confirmation hearings of now-Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. In something of a rant, we wondered whether white, male candidates would ever have been subjected to such [...]

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HBO tackles the F-word: But please don’t call it feminism!

Really, women’s work is never done. At a time when we’re told that work-life balance is the great mirage; at a time when women are still punching the clock on the “second shift”; at a time when kickass young women are still stuck trying to decide how and where they fit into the world of [...]

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