Secretary Lena Dunham Gives Her Opening Statement On Benghazi
Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com So, first, I just want to thank the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for this opportunity to, y’know, clear the air on this whole Benghazi thing. I just feel like a lot...
View ArticleHow To Flirt
The modern courtship ritual is a delicate machine with billions of interworking parts, each requiring a precise application of force and motion. Push when you should pull, rotate when you should flip,...
View ArticleParis Hilton Nostalgia
Source: Instagram For the past two weeks, I’ve had a Google Alert for Paris Hilton. It tells me Paris is staging a comeback for 2013. She was just profiled as a ‘savvy businesswoman’ in Marie Claire...
View ArticleGirls Don’t Count
Shutterstock I used to think I was getting away with something. “Girls don’t count,” I’d say, running my fingers up her arm at the bar. “Don’t you know that?” We both had boyfriends. Long-term...
View ArticleLena Dunham Is Going To Have A Second Show On HBO
Jaguar PS / Shutterstock.com Lena Dunham, whose TV show Girls people really love to argue about, has had a second show optioned by HBO. People are comparing the show to The Devil’s Wear Prada. Here are...
View ArticleYou Don’t Have To Be The Perfect Woman
Shutterstock I know how you feel looking in the mirror — poking the little hairs on your tummy, the weird lumps of fat on your thighs, the stretchmarks on your hips. You look at yourself and you think,...
View ArticleThe First Four Girls I Fooled Around With
Brooke was the first girl to touch me in a way that made my stomach tremble. We were in Kindergarten, shoving hands down the front of each other’s pants in the darkened Planetarium. There was something...
View ArticleWhat That Last Episode Of ‘Girls’ Was Really About
So, so many of today’s twenty-something women* are finding out who they are by waking up in the houses of people they barely know. It happens in the wan light of quiet morning, the fog of Last Night...
View ArticleHow To Love A Crazy Girl
Shutterstock First and foremost, rid yourself of the idea that there is even such a thing as a “crazy girl.” There are emotionally unstable people, of course, and some of them are women. But the...
View ArticleI Am Jealous Of Lena Dunham
Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com Let me start this off by saying that I in no way support the rampant, childish trend of calling any woman who doesn’t like another woman’s work — or finds some of her...
View ArticleWhat’s Up With Lena Dunham?: Celebrating Women’s Bodies
Girls In Los Angeles you spend time at gas stations like New Yorkers wait for subways. One of the perks is, if you like to eavesdrop, L.A. gas stations are great social equalizers. Everyone needs gas,...
View ArticleCall-Out Culture, Girl Hate, And Being A YouTube Celebrity: An Interview With...
Franchesca Ramsey Though she may be most widely known as the creator of the hugely popular video “Shit White Girls Say To Black Girls,” Franchesca Ramsey — YouTube handle chescaleigh — has carved out a...
View ArticleWhy The Very Special OCD Episode Of ‘Girls’ Is Important
My least favorite TV show of all time is Monk. To be fair, I have never actually watched an episode of Monk. I’m not even 100% that it’s still on the air. But that doesn’t stop me from hating it, more...
View ArticleA Letter To The Awesome Women In Our Lives
Fuller Hunt Dear You, How are you? I know that people ask you this a hundred times a day, never really meaning it, never really looking you in the eyes when they let it replace “Hello” as a meaningless...
View ArticleYou Were A Storm
Shutterstock You were a storm barreling toward me, full of boiling rage and leftover resentment. You needed a place to land the whirling brew of dust, wind and rain and I let you right in. You were...
View ArticleWhat Do Your Google Searches Say About You?
Nothing says more about a person than their Google searches. I theorize that you can tell a lot about what someone is really like by reading through what they’ve looked up, and a favorite party game...
View ArticleI Just Have To Say It Out Loud
Shutterstock.com Dear friends, I have something to tell you. No don’t worry, I promise it’s nothing bad; it’s not bad at all. I just need, I just need to write it down in full I guess, because I have...
View ArticleThe Things Girls Are Afraid To Say
Seyed Mostafa Zamani You will look at us with these prying, insisting eyes. You will wonder — possibly out loud — why we feel that we can’t be honest with you about how we’re feeling. We will avoid...
View Article10 Things You Hate To Do
Shutterstock 1. Get out of bed to go to the bathroom when you’re already swaddled in your comforter. You finally get comfortable. You’re about to fall asleep and then, bam. You have to pee so badly....
View ArticleThe Things Girls Want To Hear
VinothChandar “You are wonderful. I love you.” And you say this with no fear, with no conditions, with no vague sense of embarrassment over what it means to care about someone who may not care for you...
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