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Today’s Lady News: The Tucker Max Funny-Making Formula
Mighty Hermaphrodite Dishes On Being Intersexed
With all the brouhaha over runner Caster Semenya’s gender and rumors that Lady Gaga is a hermaphrodite, it seems like intersexism is really on people’s minds these days. So we’ve very glad that 39-year-old chick Hida Viloria published an essay on CNN.com this week telling us what it’s like to be intersexed. Hida didn’t out that she was a hermaphrodite until she was 26. Sound crazy? Well, Viloria’s body looks just like most women’s—she gets her period every month and can get pregnant. The only thing is that her clitoris is very, very large. When Viloria was growing up, her conservative parents avoided talking about gender and sexuality. She didn’t get any corrective surgery or take estrogen pills because her father, a doctor, was against it. Now Hida, who holds a degree in gender and sexuality studies from Berkeley, is writing a book called Mighty Hermaphrodite about her experiences. The book will be out next spring. Keep reading »
Why Are Women So Unhappy?
All right ladies, we have something seriously sad to chat about—our unhappiness. In fact, we are so increasingly unhappy that Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post is devoting an entire series of blogs to explore what the heck is up with us. Before you blame it on our society, know this: Study after study shows that our happiness has been in decline since the 1970s. Even more disturbing is that this trend spans all countries, cultures, socio-economic levels, ages, and marital statuses. Plain and simple, we are in a collective slump. Worst part? We don’t know why. [Huffington Post] Keep reading »
Julia Child: In America, A Feminist Icon; In France, Not So Much
Thanks to motion picture hit “Julie & Julia,” Julia Child’s image has been experiencing a feminist revival, as reflections on the movie have meditated largely on what the “French Chef” did not only for American cuisine, but also for the women who cooked it. True, there’s no denying Child was a woman who made a huge impact on domestic society. Yet, I’ve had to take issue with the quick compulsion by reviewers and blogs to laud her as a “feminist icon,” where the term refers to her as someone active in the women’s movement. To be sure, Child can now be classified as such for the overarching effects of her career, but promoting women wasn’t her original goal. It was to cook, write her book, pay homage to her beloved France, and find success. (If you read her autobiography, My Life in France, you know that after the publication of her cookbook she was actually quite conniving by choosing not to disclose much of her subsequent work to her female colleague, Simone Beck.)*
This week “Julie & Julia” came out in France, and The New York Times highlights an illuminating (and perhaps not greatly considered in this feminist dialogue) point—the French are excited about this film, but the draw has nothing to do with their own country and its cuisine. It’s all about Meryl Streep. Julia Child could not be farther from a feminist icon there. Keep reading »
Today’s Lady News: Bikini-Clad Baristas Might Have To Get Dressed
Today’s Lady News: Yale Lab Tech Raymond Clark III Questioned In Annie Le’s Death
—How typical, punishing the girls for their sexuality. What about making all the male students wear blinders instead? Keep reading »
New Hampshire Teen Has The Titties To Test The Law
Eighteen-year-old Cassidy Nicosia of New Hampshire really cares about equality. That’s why she decided to see what would happen if she walked down the streets of her town topless and packing heat in a holster. Now that takes some balls titties! Why did she do this? Cassidy is a member of the Free State Project, an effort to convince 20,000 peace-loving people to move to New Hampshire, get involved in activism, and run for local office. Cassidy says of her stunt, “Men can walk down the street … and, you know, not get harassed at all but yet somehow this is dirty.” So how did her little experiment turn out? Keep reading »
Today’s Lady News: Annie Le’s Murderer Might Be A Yale Lab Tech
Is Ego-itis Really That Bad?
I just finished reading yet another article about women and our ever-expanding egos. According to a new study by leading psychologists, we women are more egocentric and narcissistic than ever before. The symptoms of this dastardly “ego-itis”? Huge expectations of ourselves and others, a belief that we are the center of the universe, a deluded sense of our own fabulousness, trouble accepting criticism, and difficulty extending empathy. In fact we are 67 percent more narcissistic in the last two decades. Hmmm … I wonder if that has anything to do with big bad women’s lib?
Naturally, the article doesn’t spend much time talking about how these traits may serve us in our careers or personal lives. Rather, it looks at how this shift in the dating sphere is making things difficult … especially for men! Keep reading »
Today’s Lady News: 12-Year-Old Child Bride Dies In Childbirth
