Thursday, July 30, 2009 - Posts
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A post from Double X writer Margaret Wheeler Johnson:
Behold, Marc Jacobs' latest foray into T-shirt activism.
Jacobs has two new politically themed tees for sale, both bearing the
statement: "I pay my taxes. I want my RIGHTS!" He's really going for
provocateur status with one of them: The shirt features what we are
supposed to assume is a lesbian couple with their very own toddler.
It's the iconography of the holy family, and the American nuclear family, just without the XY phenotype ... (Read more in Double X.)
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Last night I caught up on Drop Dead Diva, Lifetime’s new comedy about an aspiring Price Is Right
model, Deb, who dies and returns to Earth in the body of an
accomplished, but fat, trial lawyer, Jane. I agree, June, that credit
for the show’s greatness goes wholly to Brooke Elliott, who plays Jane.
Her walk alone is enough to bring me back for Episode 4. It’s also fun
to watch the cameos unfold. You can just picture Rosie O’Donnell
getting the script and calling her agent right then to say “A show
starring a fat woman that’s not making fun of her? I’m in.” I wonder if
a legal battle with Camryn Manheim is in Jane’s future ... (Read the rest of this post, or the whole conversation, in Double X.)
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A newly published paper in the journal Media, War, and Conflict dissects “the art of shoe-throwing”
in light of George Bush’s December near-encounter with the liberated
footwear of an Iraqi journalist. Though the political significance of
shoes predates the incident—statues of Saddam were so pelted back in
2003—the University of Brighton’s Yasmin Ibrahim argues that Bush
helped set off a wave of loafer-related uprisings ... (Read more in Double X.)
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I am too embarrassed by Emily's trumpets-blaring charge against texting while driving
to admit to doing it. But if I did, my sin would of course be committed
in the service of the holy grail of multi-tasking. The research the NYT cites,
however, has reminded me that when the risk entailed by squeezing two
tasks into the same minutes is death, it is utterly and obviously a
risk not to take ... (Read the rest of this post, or the whole conversation, in Double X.)
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Adam Reilly of the Boston Phoenix makes an interesting connection between ESPN’s prompt response to the creepy nude tape of sportscaster Erin Andrews and its extended silence on the rape allegations against Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
If ESPN truly understood from the Andrews case the abusive relationship
between women and the world of pro sports, Reilly argues, it should
have known the importance of covering the rape charges. He writes ... (Read more in Double X.)
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