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Remember Jenna Talackova, the transgender Miss Universe contestant who successfully sued Donald Trump for the right to compete in Miss Universe Canada? As it turns out, she was just getting started. Riding the momentum of all those TV appearances, Ms. Talackova has just signed on to do a pilot season of a reality show for E! Canada, which will be called Brave New Girl. More
I suffer from “Pinterest” stress largely because I still have no idea how make Pinterest work. So many pictures of baked goods, and what are they all for!? But according to a Today survey, it’s stressing women out for other reasons. More
The sexism that goes into deciding what an author’s book cover will look like is really quite astonishing. I wasn’t totally aware of this fact until I read this heart wrenching piece on Jezebel by author Deborah Copaken Kogan, which, among other things, detailed just how little control an author has over the marketing of her own book. It seems the literary establishment has yet to meet a new female author it can’t chicklitify.
To bring this issue to the forefront, author Maureen Johnson put out a call on Twitter for her more Photoshop savvy followers to switch the genders of the authors on the covers of well known books. And switch the genders they did. The results are as amusing as they are depressing, because they are totally spot on. Click through to see some of your favorite male authors given the chicklit treatment, and vice versa. More
As Mother’s Day is coming up (this Sunday, buy flowers) you’re probably going to happen across a lot articles about whether or not you are “becoming your mother.” If this is something you are concerned about, I have some good ideas for you. I will stop you from becoming your mother! Here are my ideas. More
Well, I’ve been anticipating The Great Gatsby for a really long time, and I guess that did not work out for me. Not even a little bit. So what historical epic do I have to look forward to, now? The Butler. The story traces the life of Eugene Allen (Forest Whitaker) who was butler at the White House for 40 years (through 8 presidents). Oprah plays his wife. And, as Jezebel points out, she slaps someone! Look! More
Talk about burying the lede. As a follow up to its Met Ball coverage, Women’s Wear Daily has a series of soundbites from Ricardo Tisci of Givenchy up on its site today. He talks about how pleased he was with how all his looks turned out (including Beyonce‘s, oy), but the interesting part doesn’t come until the end, when he discusses Kim Kardashian. (No, I never thought I would type that sentence.) More
There is no experiential empathy created from walking in some high heels, for the record. So why are colleges still using this as a “playful learning tool”? Since when did rape education need to be “playful”? More
Look, when I went into a screening of The Great Gatsby at The Ziegfeld yesterday, I wanted to like Gatsby more than anyone. I’ve been tweeting the novel in its entirety every night for the last three years. And I am sure I would have loved it, if the Jay Gatsby Baz Luhrmann created and Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed was not such an absolutely relentless jerk. More
Just for the record, this is exactly why things like the “ex-girlfriend target” are so atrocious. More
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You kind of have to hand it to Tan Mom. A full year after she first tanned her way into America’s heart, she’s still famous enough to be getting roasted by drag queens, kicked out of her own roast, and then invited back again. She’s also famous enough that I know her name, Patricia Krentcil, without having to look it up (kill me). And now, having beaten the original charges against her, she’s doing what any reasonable New Jersey tanorexic would do, should they find themselves unexpectedly famous: she’s launching a dance music career. More
Our own Ashley Cardiff talks about her upcoming book in Relapse! -Relapse
Meet your new art-crush, Lisa Hanawalt. -Sadie
Cara Delevinge was probably just holding the cocaine for a friend. -The Frisky
Cate Blanchett is going to be the wicked stepmother in Cinderella. -Double X
Can this pill really improve your sex life? -YourTango
Who wore it better: Portia de Rossi or an ostrich? -Betty Confidential
Replace your bad beauty products with natural alternatives! -Money Crashers
Is Lana Del Rey the Daisy Buchanan of our time? -Nerve
“The Source Family: A Cult I Might Have Joined” -The Hairpin
Unexpected ways to use a cheese grater. -The Stir
Celebrities who used to go steady. -ET Online
Magical underpants promise to cure you of your most imaginary problem. -Ladyish
Elizabeth Smart, anti rape advocate, has some very smart things to say about abstinence only education. More
In a newly published interview with Piers Morgan, Lindsay Lohan continues to do her damnedest to make herself look like a nice, normal person who has simply been the victim of voracious celebrity culture and a series of unfortunate misunderstandings. Alcohol? Not a big drinker. Cocaine? Only done it four times. Stolen necklace? Totally tried to pay for it! But the biggest misunderstanding of all supposedly occurred between Lindsay Lohan and herself, when she dated a woman for an extended period of time even though she was straight. More
I’ve spent a lot of time hearing and thinking about Sheryl Sandberg‘s Lean In, which encouraged people to push harder even if meant being thought unfeminine (Mark Zuckerberg told Sandberg had to stop worrying about people liking her). So I was pretty excited to hear about The Athena Doctrine which says that, actually, men should try to be more like women. More
