Now get on Twitter and tell @hugoschwyzer how wonderful he is.
I want to like New Girl. I haven’t missed an episode this season. It is kind of funny. It is original. But Zooey Dechanel, or Jess (though it always sounds like she’s saying “Joss!”), so often comes across as a mentally challenged child, that I find the show to be as unbearable as it is entertaining.
Not only does it feel like a live action version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with Jess as the gang’s merry caretaker, but I don’t like how her guy roommates always seems to make her nervous, like they might actually lose it on her at some point. The way she acts around them reminds me of the way people with explosive significant others act. It’s like she has to constantly diffuse every situation so it doesn’t escalate. Also, I hate that her best friend is a vapid model who none of us would actually be best friends with in real life.
So why do I watch it?
The holidays are upon us and people are still shopping for last minute gifts!
The following unique pieces of jewelry (and who doesn’t like jewelry?) all come from women-owned super small businesses (except for Roxbury Jewelry, which is owned by my brother and cousin). Amazon has enough business, give these guys a try:
DaisyDreamsinColor Pharoah Earrings $25
Someone on Facebook just posted this photo again today. For those of you that haven’t seen it, two years ago model Lizzie Miller posed naked for Glamour Magazine looking normal, which is to say she had a gut. It wasn’t strategically hidden. It wasn’t Photoshopped. She had a gut, like pretty much every other woman on the planet. And apparently revealing her gut in one little photo resulted in hundreds of emails and letters pouring in from readers who were thrilled to see fashion magazines finally FINALLY showing real women. Granted Lizzie is gorgeous, but at least she isn’t Photoshopped. At least she doesn’t look like someone who hasn’t eaten in a month.
So here’s my question: Why have we never seen a photo like this since? Clearly women readers want to see guts and stretch marks and cellulite so we don’t have to feel inadequate about our guts and stretch marks and cellulite. Why aren’t women’s magazines giving us what we want? The editorial staffs of fashion magazines are largely female. What are they waiting for?? It’s ridiculous that anyone is still linking to this tired old picture taken two years (eons ago in Internet time). We should have come a long way by now. Hey Glamour, you feature articles about politics and women’s health, you hold Women of the Year Awards, why haven’t you shown any similar images since?
Tweet this post to @GlamourMag. I want some answers.
I’m so honored to be thanked in this book. It’s ideal for anyone who wants to learn the basics of feminism, but doesn’t want to pour over dozens of books to do so.
“Mom in Dog Cage” by Paula Dixon
16x24 in, $675
This is a portrait of the photographer’s own mother in a cage.
