Another day at the beach with collage artist Lynn Skordal
“There’s a bias against — a fear of creating the sexually aggressive woman”
It says so much about Greta Gerwig’s charm+acting abilities and the particular moment of economic stagnation we are living in that I can sit through a movie about a “messy” 27 year old.
Frances Ha is a smart and affecting study in changing cultural mores and economic constraint. I loved every second of it.
“Burglar Mammy was horrendous, a confirmation of every harsh judgment levied against Mad Men for being too much of a white upper-middle-class historical fantasy, a show that’s not willing or able to really go where it labors to convince us it’s going. If Burglar Mammy were a dream figure attached to a particular character, and if Mad Men had shown any inclination to go anywhere substantive with its allusions to civil rights and racial anxiety, and if it hadn’t given us a black Playboy bunny, a black prostitute, a black mugger, and other disreputable minor characters over the years, but no people of color with personal or even narrative substance, I might feel differently about her.”
— Mad Men Recap: You’re Pretentious, You Know That — Vulture
“Cha Cha Walters at work”
“from the personal collection of Barbara Walters”
Amanda Hess forever
And yet, perversely, some fans feel as if a part of Jolie has been stolen from them. One well-meaning but misguided commenter told me on Twitter yesterday: “Happy to hear she’s giving herself much better odds. As a guy, I will miss her lovely curves though.” (The reconstructive surgery she described presumably restored her curves.) I can tell you from experience that when a person you love makes it through that surgery, they have never looked more lovely. I don’t mean that in a strictly emotional sense—it registers physically, too. The way that they look at you when they wake up. The breaths they take. Their smile. The way they move through space. You don’t miss anything: You are reminded of all of the wonderful things that you are not missing. It’s gorgeous.
(Source: Slate)
“I saw your face first,” he said. “I have daughters and a wife, so I knew right away what that look meant. Makes me sick.”
I Was Groped on the Subway
Thank you Judge Korman
The judge rejected that argument out of hand, saying that “this silly argument ignores the fact it is the government’s appeal from the order that sustained the judgment of the commissioner of the F.D.A. that is the cause of any uncertainty, and that that appeal is taken solely to vindicate the improper conduct of the secretary and possibly for the purpose of further delaying greater access to emergency contraceptives for purely political reasons.”
He also rejected the government’s argument that women might be confused about the drug’s availability if it was made available to everyone without a prescription and then later restricted because the government won its appeal.
Judge Korman called that argument “largely an insult to the intelligence of women.”
(Source: The New York Times)
