Category Archives: “women”
the mixed blessing of newly processed papers: the nancy tuckerman files of the jacqueline kennedy onassis collection at the jfk library (emotions by britney)
so this was terrifically exciting for about five minutes.
NEW THINGS!!!! COMING OUT OF THE VAULT. Continue reading
steinem and porter: a close reading of a fashion tribute to a feminist icon
surely we’ve all been around the block together enough that i don’t have to preface my close reading of a seemingly deeply shallow thing– in this case, a fashion magazine editorial (the captions! the prices! the open mouths! the ennui!)– with a disclaimer that i don’t always take a magnifying glass to a fashion mag to study the fine print in the posters the model’s affixing to the wall, yeah? surely it’s understood by now that i’d only do that when it leads us to a cultural Deep Point? yes?
i’mma go with yes. and assume you’re with me.
anyhoo, so in the past week, steinem has suddenly been EVERYWHERE. by which i mean she is probably no more or less present in all your lives than usual but, in my own, because i’m writing about the 70s, she is increasingly, every day, coming up.
AND LO! valérie trierweiler, francois hollande, thank you for this moment: THE MOVIE (thoughts on dangerous women)
it is like the gods looked deep deep into their grab bag and said, YES.
yes, yes. it’s for real. THANK YOU FOR THIS MOMENT: THE MOVIE. i die. Continue reading
the way we write obituaries is wrong (and that matters)
i’ve written about this before. about how the way we write the obituaries of women is infuriating. by which i mean not just the fact that so few of them are written.
the new (coke) milk, marilyn moments and martinis
so apparently people aren’t drinking sodas anymore. which is SHOCKING because surely i drink enough soda to keep the soda industry afloat but apparently no. and lo, coca-cola is branching out… to milk. (as i also pretty much keep all the cows in business, this officially makes me a trend setter.)
this (1) seems ridiculous because aren’t all the new fad diets completely anti-dairy? (or is that just gwyneth?) and (2)… well, they’re not exactly going about it in the awesomest of ways.
behold:
continuing thoughts on valérie trierweiler (FLOTUS, silence, scandal [+ a hit of plath])
so i’ve written about valérie trierweiler a couple times now. first, in the immediate aftermath of the clusterwhoops with françois hollande back in january, looking at what was going on there with the meanings attached to the position of first lady. and again in september, when it was revealed that she had a memoir and the french were freaking out.
why am i writing about her now? because trierweiler’s memoir is coming to england.
the daily mail‘s headlines are always so good at summary because they include nearly every detail of an article, so let’s start with them:
the jian ghomeshi sexual assault scandal: 2 seemingly unrelated anecdotes about jfk + elvis, + a few thoughts
i wanted to write about this, but i’m not sure how i want to write about this so bear with me…
jian ghomeshi.
i do not want to write about renée zellweger
but sometimes we have to do things we do not want to do because those are the things that make us think.
renée zellweger is trending today because she went to an event last night.
some headlines:
martha, gwynnie, conscious (un)coupling + cat fights
so’s i was casting about today on the daily mail looking for something to write about and i stumbled upon news of the brewing cat fight between martha stewart and gwyneth paltrow.
and i thought YES. i will write about the brewing “cat fight” between martha stewart and gwyneth paltrow. but the problem with writing about the brewing cat fight between martha stewart and gwyneth paltrow is that you have to practice what you preach. and if i were to write about the brewing “cat fight” between martha stewart and gwyneth paltrow, i wouldn’t be practicing what i preach (feminism! female narratives! LOVE!) so much as just be towing the narrative line of the daily mail.
which ain’t cool.
an alarming life 
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