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Artificial Virginity?
In this nation so full of blatantly sexualized imagery, it's hard not to feel numb when talking about sex. From the pretty graphic jokes that circulate through my high school (and, of this I'm sure, e...
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The Boy's Club of Comedy
Last night, at a stand up open mike, a kid I’d met just before doing my set told me afterward, “Nice job! I didn’t think you’d be funny!” I didn’t take this offensively. It was a compliment - a “NEG...
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Bust Magazine: Ellen, Alia and Teens oh my!
Every so often, a magical thing happens. I open the mailbox and buried beneath bills that have no relevance to me and the catalogues that try to sell me more useless crap, there is Bust Magazine. Toda...
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September 19, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Mary Travers
On September 16th, Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary passed away. This Support Women Artists Sunday goes out to her. I respect her not only because Peter, Paul and Mary had some bangin tunes (serio...
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September 04, 2009 | Becka W |
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Forget Those Toolkits, Ladies: He's Broken
I’m hangin’ out, watching TV, and as I flip channels I just happened to come across the season premiere of the TV Show Tool Academy.
I’ve always had issues respecting the people who go on these kinds...
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August 28, 2009 | Becka W |
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Mad Men Puts Things in Perspective
So recently on my Netflix account (how did we ever live without this miraculous invention?), I’ve been taking out every DVD of the TV show Mad Men and watching them incessantly with my roommate. As...
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The Archie-type
When I was in third or fourth grade, my Dad brought home an Archie comic, with some kind of sentiment like, "These used to be around when I was little!" I vividly remember being confused by phrases su...
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August 14, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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They tried that in the 90's
I'm always complaining about how Gossip Girl and 90210 and that crap are completely unrealistic to teenagers' lives. They depict angst...but not the angst we feel - the superficial angst that everybod...
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The Fatal Generalizations in the Teen Movie
Teen movies very obviously base themselves on harmless stereotypes: the jock, the bitch, the nerd, etc.-- stereotypes so deeply rooted into our expectations of the genre that we can't be bothe...
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Joss Whedon's Equality Now Speech
Joss Whedon is the creator of such shows as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dollhouse. He's also awesome. I'm not too familiar with his work, but I've always admired him as a feminist icon, as ...
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MTSS goes CC
Remember when I posted that video from the fantabulous Midwest Teen Sex Show? Well, I just found out, thanks to WMC, that Comedy Central invited MTSS to make a full-length pilot episode this summer ...
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Gossip Round Up
I have no schedule for this feature. I do not live my life with regularity, sad-ish but true. Anyway, on with it.
UP passed the $280 mil mark, 2nd only to Finding Nemo of Pixar's movies (because Ell...
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July 08, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Gossip Roundup
Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam is ago! THANK GOD!!!!! Apparently, Demi and the Purity Ring Trio return to Camp Rock to find out that many of the students and teachers have turned to the dark side and joi...
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Jennifer's Body
So the trailer for Diablo Cody's new movie about a possessed cheerleader who seduces her male classmates then kills them was just released.
Bad news: I can't embed the video from youtube. so you ...
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July 07, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Robsten? Stewpat?
So here are all the rumors floating around about Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson (that wasn't obvious from the title of the post??) because I feel like it's important to have all the Twilight rum...
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July 07, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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another teen show rant
I've been watching a lot of tv on the internet lately. Especially this school year, the scheduling of most "teen" shows [Gossip Girl; 90210; etc] really clashed with my own personal schedule, which wa...
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Bridezillas 24/7
The New York Post reported yesterday that Cablevision is launching a 24/7 wedding channel sometime in the near future.
To which I responded: WTF?
Why are we so obssessed with weddings? Do we enjoy w...
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The MileyDisney Generation
Okay, take a deep breath. This post is not about my feelings for Miley Cyrus. I will comment on neither her talent nor her personal life. What I'm going to comment on is the generation that worships...
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It's Cute That Conservatives Think Colbert is Serious
According to a study by OSU conservatives don't know that Colbert says ridiculously conservative things as a form of hilarious satire. Yeah, they would think that.
Here are just a few of the reasons ...