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assorted thoughts on mariah carey, duchess kate, being a lady, taking up...
i imagine you are like yo, OLINE, these two people have nothing in common. and you would be sort of right. one of them is duchess of a small kingdom. the other is an american national treasure who is...
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mariah and “the fans” plus women and work
either my love of mariah has suddenly re-bloomed full-flower and i am aware of her in a way i not been in recent years, or the daily mail has taken a new-found interest in her, OR a bit of both. MC was...
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Article 3
“There still exists little organized sense of what a woman’s biography or autobiography should look like,” Carolyn G. Heilbrun wrote in her 1988 classic, Writing A Woman’s Life, noting, “Even less has...
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“trump that bitch”
in 1970, virginia slims imagined that- “someday”- when a woman ran for president, it might look like this… (obviously, in the meantime, smoking was the only option.) but it doesn’t much look as they...
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“But could your undies be causing you serious health problems? And is there a...
i don’t even know, ya’ll… (via twitter) except that, when i awoke this morning, this was the lead news story on the daily mail‘s main page. NEWS, people. on election day, no less. it’s moved down the...
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the daily mac: 35, man bun, red nails, cigarette in right hand
lo, friends, welcome, welcome! yet again, here we are, gifted with a dazzling study in the daily mail‘s narration of photographs of macaulay culkin. (via the daily mail) the tenuousness of this...
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concern via the daily mail: “slimline” colin firth and mariah carey, “diva in...
you guys, COLIN FIRTH HAS LOST WEIGHT!!! we know this because our friend MAILONLINE REPORTER over at the daily mail told us this on 15 may in a characteristically calm report… via the daily mail...
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jackie o, “queen of springtime style” (est. by the daily mail, may 2016)
in the 22 years i have been actively thinking about jackie onassis, she has only ever appeared in my dreams twice. in one of those dreams, she wore this: the daily mail would have us believe this dress...
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history
we need, carolyn heilbrun wrote in her 1988 masterpiece writing a woman’s life, stories wherein women deviate from what is expected, and stray from the standard script. we need this, she suggested,...
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“no sleeves, in a house of god”: sam cam and summer dressing
so the prime minister’s wife wore a sleeveless dress to an event at st. paul’s on friday afternoon. cue the moral panic at the daily mail. i got a giant bit of the way through this article assuming...
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in praise of priscilla presley’s beehive
margaret heldt, the inventor of the beehive hairdo, has died, ya’ll. long live beehive hair. priscilla beaulieu in googling pictures of beehives yesterday in homage, i was struck by the recurrence of...
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the question arises: what would t.s. eliot have thought of “the emails of...
i mean, OBVIOUSLY, right? this is what you were wondering when you read “The Emails of Natalie Portman and Jonathan Safran Foer“? you were like, OMG, what would thomas stearns make o’ this?? because...
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summer/gossip, 2016
in august 2012, i wrote “we’re not likely to see this summer’s equal again for a long, long while- if ever.” “if ever”!! there goes my career as a crystal ball. do you even remember 2012? do you?...
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watching her
all i remember of her husband’s first inaugural is the commentators criticizing her choice of hat and a controversial plaid. that was 23 years ago and yet it sticks with me. there’s been some talk...
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“trump that bitch” redux
i’ve been thinking about this a lot: and about the possible long-term effects of all these dog whistles of late. because these things are not with effect. even if those effects are not immediately...
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the daily mail on hiddleswift: “all the elements of a gripping romantic...
and, lo! summer officially ends. i’m not going to dwell on the particulars of this. (nor the gross sexist stuff that will inevitably emerge… (via twitter) fyi, people do not belong to other people.)...
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the sex lives of dead people: bobby kennedy/marilyn monroe edition
surely you are aware by now that there is nothing trippier than attempting to unpack the rumors surrounding the sex lives of dead people. right? you are with me? if not, go here to the Finding Jackie...
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the lives of people
a woman was assaulted and robbed early monday morning. in a culture that’s very not great in discussing violence against women, it’s worth noting how quickly this story has shifted. (via the daily...
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there is nothing worse than a staunch woman
but you see in dealing with me, the relatives didn’t know that they were dealing with a staunch character. and i tell you, if there’s anything worse than a staunch woman… S-T-A-U-N-C-H. there’s...
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the NYT obituary of florence henderson, working woman
i have written a lot about women and obituaries (here and here and here and here), and about how the way we write women’s obituaries SUCKS (here). lo! HOPE. florence henderson, our national TV mother,...
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