[via Broadsheet] A new study has come out showing that men are more likely to have greater emotional distress after relationship problems, and more likely to turn to substance abuse to deal. Since men tend to be less chatty about relationship stuff than women are, they internalize their feelings and turn to booze rather than friends to help them through it. Continue reading
Here at Blogging Molly, we think mash-ups may be the greatest art form ever created. As any regular readers of the blog know, we… I… have had a hard-on for pop music lately, and mash-ups were one of the biggest catalysts (aphrodisiacs?) for said hard-on. Girl Talk was one of the first artists to help me to appreciate the beats, hooks, and all-powerful catchiness of a good pop song. DJ Earworm’s New Years collage of 2009 songs, Blame it on the Pop, is a beautiful piece greater than the sum of its parts– as any mash-up should be– that’s so good it actually made me retroactively appreciate the songs and artists he samples (it takes a damn good DJ to make you realize you may love the Black Eyed Peas a little bit). Continue reading
Lady Gaga continues to freak out the squares.
Grace Chu has the highlights of the Larry King interview with Gaga here. They mostly involve shout outs to the queer community in honor of Pride month, praise of her fans, and the following statement:
I am a feminist.
Happy Tuesday, and happy Pride month.
"I'm pregnant right now!"
In a wildly radical move, the Obama administration has decided that the best way to prevent teen pregnancy is to teach teens using programs that have been proven to prevent teen pregnancy. Wait, what?
These hilariously named “evidence-based approach” programs just got $114 million worth of funding from the federal budget. I’m unclear on how that will effect the $250 million in the health care bill that was designated for abstinence-only programs, which should hereby be named the “what-does-the-word-’evidence’-mean?” approach. Continue reading
If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent many a night at the bar in a heated debate, trying to convince your music-snob-friends that Lady Gaga is somebody worth caring about. Or maybe you’re more like my music-snob-friends, and you’re not sure why this person at the bar won’t shut up about this Lady. For me, what’s always been fascinating is her queering of pop culture– from her purposeful ambiguity around the hermaphrodite rumors to her costumes, Gaga consistently fucks with gender and sexual binaries.
But I’ve had a hard time making the case. Usually my music-snob bar friends will hear me out, but end up saying something like, “She’s just a pop star.” Well, maybe the wonderful world of academia can pick up where I left off. For I am just a casual Gaga lover talking gender in a dive bar, and Meghan Vicks is a Ph.D. student in comparative literature. Continue reading
picture via Daily Mail
[via Broadsheet] This ad aired in the UK two nights ago. It features three women who are “late,” and gives the information of non-profit abortion and sexual health clinic Marie Stopes International. Continue reading
[via Broadsheet] Elena “damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t” Kagan doesn’t cross her legs when she sits down, sometimes. Apparently, Kagan is just a never ending source of suggestive stances. And this is America, were not a single stance will go unexamined, because we are the greatest country in the world.
Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan wrote about Kagan– who, just to remind everyone, has been nominated to be a judge on the Supreme Court, not on America’s Next Top Model– using words like “dowdy,” “frumpy,” and “wholly middle-aged.” From a very young age, girls learn that there is a colorful litany of words that exist to insult their appearance, and the discourse around Kagan proves that even if you’re 50 and you’ve been nominated for one of the most prestigious positions in the country, people will still find creative ways to call you ugly (and suggest that you’re a lesbian). Continue reading
