Feminist Ryan Gosling: what timing! A week from today is annual Love Your Body day, sponsored by the NOW Foundation.
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Nancy LeBrun: How the Vacuum Changed the World -
No matter how much we may think we still feel the yoke of housework, electric appliances like the vacuum helped fling open the window for women back in the early part of the 20th century.
Think of it! No more dragging heavy Persian rugs outside to beat the bejesus out of them for hours on end. Finally! Some help cleaning the endless soot that settled from gas lamps and fires.
Oct. 3 marks the 112th anniversary of the patent for the first vacuum.
Our Bodies, Ourselves Turns 40
The Global Women's Progress Report: Newsweek Ranks the Best and Worst Places to be a Woman
Nora Ephron on the premiere of NBC’s The Playboy Club, in this week’s NEWSWEEK:
I worry (as someone who was an adult in the 1960s) that young people will see The Playboy Club and think that this is what life was like back then and that Hefner, as he also says in his weird, creepy voice-over, was in fact “changing the world, one Bunny at a time.”
So I would like to say this:
1. Trust me, no one wanted to be a Bunny.
2. A Bunny’s life was essentially that of an underpaid waitress forced to wear a tight costume.
3. Playboy did not change the world.
More: A history of the Playboy club (photos).
(Source: newsweek)
“It’s that whole flowery sundress, nerdy horn-rims, bicycle basket, put-a-bird-on-it tweeness of the forever child. Also, she records indie rock albums and makes a point of singing a lot in the new show — tra-la-la-la — which only makes it more awful.” —
Hank Stuever explains what he finds so awful about Zooey Deschanel in his look at the horridness of female characters in television’s fall lineup - The Washington Post. (via washingtonpoststyle)
Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou, Hank Stuever. “Put-a-bird-on-it tweeness.” Perfect.
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“It’s sad, because it feels like there are people all over the world who can sympathize with us, but not in our own community.” —
Craig Soignet, the father of the girl who roiled a small town in Texas when she refused to cheer for the boy she told police had raped her. The girl was kicked off the cheer squad.
Three years later, cheerleader rape case still stirs flames in Silsbee, Texas.
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How To Stay Younger And Prettier For Your Man, 1963.
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Is Marriage for White People? -
A commenter responds to our review of Erotic Capital, a new book that argues that women should use their sex appeal to level the playing field at work.
When it first hit bookshelves, Odd Girl Out sparked a national debate on girls and bullying. Ten years later, girl expert (and Equality Myth girlcrush) Rachel Simmons talks about the updated text—and what drives today’s girl aggression.
(Source: newsweek)
Beyonce wants to invent a new word for feminism. Like "Bootylicious."
In which the “Mancession” turns into a “Mancovery”
Memo to Frank Bruni: Women Have Been Devastated by the Economic Downturn
Tumblr of the Day: Serious Ladies. A tumblr dedicated to serious ladies looking good. -
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