Slate, which has been rolling out its female-specific content in the form of the XX Factor blog for months, has finally relaunched the feature in full-fledged magazine form. I haven't fully dived into "DoubleX" yet, but it already registers one improvement on its predecessor: You don't have to jump over to Slate's alien message board [...]
Now that e-Harmony is legally required to provide dating services for gays, newly single (possible) lesbian Lindsay Lohan has created a video profile seeking love in a spoof on the site for FunnyOrDie.com. In the faux singles ad, Lohan describes herself as "a workaholic, a shopaholic, and, according to the state of California, an [...]
Mmm hmm, yeah, are you hot yet, ladies?
Quick quiz! Does the sight of bonobos fornicating, paired with the sounds of chimpanzees fornicating, turn you on?
- If you answered "NO," you are a man.
- If you answered "NO," but are secretly lying, you are a woman.
Yesterday on Slate's "XX Factor," Susannah Breslin penned a short post [...]
* Metro Weekly opines on 25 years of Mid-Atlantic Leather weekend.
* Tyra Banks finds the one woman who has never heard of Sarah Palin.
* Tiger Beatdown tells you who's faring better this week—chicks or dudes—based on evidence culled from extensive personal experience crack reporting a Google alert she's set up for "women than men". But [...]
* The New Gay writes in defense of public displays of affection, despite the consequences:
Yesterday after brunch, my boyfriend and I decided to nap off a hangover in Kalorama Park. So on a perfect afternoon I was lying with my head on my boyfriends stomach while his hand rested on mine. And thats when the [...]
* Chelsea Schilling of WorldNetDaily—which appears to be some sort of Ann Coulter-9/11-Real America news outfit—reports on former Washington City Paper staffer John Cloud's condemnation of Barack Obama as a "bigot" and a "problem for gays" following Obama's Rick Warren nod. A "homosexual" reporter versus our terrorist communist Leader? This is like some sort of [...]
* Slate's XX Factor hashes it out over Rick Warren. Sara Mosley hates Warren, but admits that "engagement with the other side" sometimes "makes everyone a little unhappy and uncomfortable." Noreen Malone thinks Obama's "selling out." Hannah Rosin thinks this is all "liberal group think" that amounts to "pretending evangelicals don't exist"—and calls to let [...]
Slate's year-old female blog, the wonderful XX Factor, will come of age this spring when it blossoms into a beautiful full-fledged Web 'zine. The project shall be known henceforth as Double X, and those who want to offer up ideas, writers, or a managing editor can make their case at doublex.slate@gmail.com. A full description [...]
* Slate is all over the sex & gender beat this week! First, Jack Shafer debunks the New York Times Sunday Styles "dudes love cats" trend piece:
How to write a bogus trend story: Start with something you wish were on the rise. State that rise as a fact. Allow that there are no facts, surveys, [...]
