A new Pew study indicates that the prevalence sexting is rapidly rising: In previous surveys, those in their mid-twenties through mid-thirties were the most likely to both send and receive sexts. For the first time, however, those ages 18-24 are the most likely of any age group to say they receive sexts (44%). This represents … Continue reading You’ve Got Sexts
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Wired analyzed data from OKCupid and Match.com to help online daters create the most appealing possible profiles. Their suggestions in a nutshell? Learn to surf, listen to Radiohead, mind your grammar, use Tinder, OkCupid, Match, and Grindr on Sunday, watch Homeland, stop listing your eyes as your best feature (nobody … Continue reading The Secrets Of Online Dating
Last week, ahead of the Season 3 premiere of Girls, TV critic Tim Molloy asked Dunham why she does so many nude scenes. Molloy: I don’t get the purpose of all the nudity on the show. By you particularly. I feel like I’m walking into a trap where you say no one complains about the nudity … Continue reading Lena Dunham’s Skin In The Game
In a profile of best-selling author Jennifer Weiner, Rebecca Mead lays out the many ways that Weiner “has stoked a lively public discussion about the reception and consumption of fiction written by women”: The same cultural prejudices that maligned large women, she said, explain why books like hers do not get critical respect. Her campaign about … Continue reading A Gadfly Of The Literary World
Amanda Hess chronicles the vitriolic and often violent rhetoric aimed at her and other female journalists by anonymous commenters. She warns that “no matter how hard we attempt to ignore it, this type of gendered harassment—and the sheer volume of it—has severe implications for women’s status on the Internet”: According to a 2005 report by the … Continue reading Virtual Harassment
Amanda Hess unravels Etsy’s call for more government assistance: Etsy sellers may be collectively swapping $895 million annually, but most of them aren’t seeing much of that cash, and they’re not passing it on to any employees, either. The report, based on an online survey conducted last year with 94,000 sellers who had made a sale in … Continue reading A Handmade Handout
AR Wear, or Anti-Rape Wear, is a crowdfunded line of undergarments designed to “frustrate an assault effectively.” Amanda Hess snarks, “The ‘AR’ stands for ‘ARe you kidding?’—no, sorry”. Jia Tolentino feels that “to some women, this product could feel tremendously welcome,” but she has reservations: Many parts of the video for AR Wear really grind … Continue reading Could “Anti-Rape” Underwear Really Help?
No, not Mike Napoli – Richard Brody, of The New Yorker: One of the beauties of the beard is that its lushness is polysemic, lending itself to an interpretive exuberance to match its flow. A beard is a celebration of nature that brings appearance closer to that of untamed human animals—a Rousseau-esque gesture that was crucial … Continue reading Poseur Alert
Amanda Hess explores the growing phenomenon of microporn, “explicit photos, videos, and GIFs that are as short as winks”: Today, the full-length film experience has been subsumed by short clips that can be chopped, remixed, and compiled into endless sexual combinations. [Novice pornographer] David distills his exploits into six-second loops. Amateur editors cut professional porn … Continue reading Just The Money Shots
by Brendan James Jake Tapper interviewed a friend of Manning’s: Emily Greenhouse notes that Manning could face serious danger in prison now that she’s announced her identity as a woman: Discrimination and violence, especially sexual violence, against transgender women is disproportionately bad. And in prison, according to a 2009 study of inmates in California, some sixty per … Continue reading From Bradley To Chelsea Manning, Ctd
