Topic: Reality TV

The Ten Most Misogynistic Moments On “The Newsroom.”

The Ten Most Misogynistic Moments On "The Newsroom."
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I swear, I almost never use the word misogynistic.

It’s partly because I don’t believe in a culture where we go around feeling victimized, and partly because I think it’s a term that gets wildly overused. Sometimes people are nasty to people just because they’re people, not because they’re women. By “sometimes” I mean “most of the time.”

So, when I kept hearing that The Newsroom was an incredibly misogynistic show, I thought, “Aaron Sorkin generally writes very well thought out female characters, people are probably just looking for an angle and have nothing else to write about.”

Then I watched the show. More »

Do You Need A 73 Point Dating Checklist? MissAdvised‘s Julia Allison Explains Hers.

Do You Need A 73 Point Dating Checklist? MissAdvised's Julia Allison Explains Hers.

One of our former contributors, Julia Allison, is now on a Bravo Reality Television Show called Miss Advised. The Emma-Esque premise follows a group of three women in the dating advice industry (relationship columnist Julia Allison, matchmaker Amy Laurent and talk show host Emily Morse) on their search to find love. You can watch the trailer here or tune in when it airs at 10/9c tonight.

Now, I’m no Austen fan, but it sounds cute.

That said, when we heard about it, our first question was why? Why would anyone want to be on a reality television show? So we talked to Julia about it. That and her 73 point dating checklist. More »

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