Q: How does one make Your Girl in Music swoon? A: Buy me the book + bring booze for bonus points. Oops, I just wrote the best feminist soft core opening plot ever.
My #WhenIWas
Every time a sexual assault story breaks nationally, it seems like the public conversation inevitably shifts from shock at the unspeakable atrocity of what happened to speculating how the victim failed to prevent her own assault and lamenting the perpetrators now-wasted ‘potential.’ So when I saw @EverydaySexism asking women to share their earliest stories with […]
Interpreting the Sexes
I had a guy friend come to me recently and ask me to translate girl for him. The conversation allowed me connect a few dots for he and other guy friends who were there, as well as articulate something for myself. Here’s the sitch: He’d been hanging out with this girl to the point where […]
A Ses and Voldy Playlist
As was often the case in mine and Lord Voldemort’s relationship, he would frequently wax on and on and on about this or that present he was constructing for me to mark whichever occasion was close at hand. I rarely, if ever, actually saw tangible evidence that they had existed by any stretch of the […]
You should Date an Illiterate Girl
One of you fine, upstanding readers sent along this link out of concern. Apparently, “Illiterate” has started making a new set of rounds with a modified ending. Quick aside: I’m so tickled any reference to that entertaining read makes you lovely peeps think of me and seek my opinion as a ‘literate girl’ SME. I’m […]
How to Tell if Your Date is Easy by the Band Tee They Wear
If you’re a music-minded single living in the U.K. Tastebuds.fm is OK Cupid meets Mog Music (or Spotify, the music streaming service EU loves that for some reason STILL isn’t avail stateside *grumble, grumble*). Its also part Playboy Magazine, as in, I have a profile on the site just so I can read their articles. […]
Social Meteor’s Top 10 Tweets: #breakuptexts
Lookit this!! Even celeb funnypeoples with a paid professional writing staff wish they were as meme-able as my off the cuff tweet when #breakuptexts was trending. I was ranked #8, but in my journalistic, and therefore 100% objective opinion, mine is clearly the runner up to @PageMoney‘s third-ranked yet obviously best take. See for yourself: […]