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Lily Allen’s new video for Hard Out Here got me thinking. My first thought was that it’s great when a mainstream female artist draws attention to sexism, misogyny and double standards. My second thought was that I wish the message wasn’t accompanied by (lots of) the very porn-y and corny imagery it professes to . . . → Read More: Lily’s Right, It IS Hard Out Here 
I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. What should I be for Halloween this year? A sexy vampire, a sexy astronaut, a sexy nurse, a sexy pirate, a sexy carrot – the possibilities are endless. When I was a little girl, like all children I Imagined who I’d like to be . . . → Read More: Halloween Costumes, Pop Tarts and Candy Porn  2 comments  HELP YOURSELF, ME, POP-ED, WTF  girls, Halloween, holiday, Miley Cyrus, pop culture, sexism, sexy
Everybody, let’s stop with the slut-shaming. Her performance at the VMAs is upsetting, but not for the reasons you think. The furor and shock and vitriol strike me as the height of hypocrisy and sexism. Miley Cyrus is still America’s Sweetheart — the REAL America Am I happy young girls feel they need . . . → Read More: In Defense of Miley Cyrus There’s this show on USA Network called Fairly Legal (a hilarious take on barely legal, get it?) that I’ve only been able to stomach watching once or twice. But to be “fairly”, I came into watching the show with prejudicial feelings. Prejudicial feelings of the sort that made me want to throw a heavy object at . . . → Read More: Lawyer? I Barely Touched Her! One comment WTF advertising, attorneys, criticism, feminism, law, lawyers, marketing, media, mediation, mediators, sexism, sexy, TV
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