"On paper" UPDATED

Sometimes we all make assumptions. For instance, I'd assume an American Jewish woman of a certain generation would be familiar with what...

Beyond guyliner

As a matter of principle, I must approve of the fact that the most enthusiastic makeup-and-skincare routine "Into The Gloss" has y...

I had one more beauty-post in me yet!

-Autumn is back at The Beheld, I'm back just at WWPD. That was an exciting guest-blogging stint, and I'm so grateful to Autumn for t...

14, 29

Tonight, Rufus Wainwright himself graced us, the rural 'burbs next to the famous university, with his presence. There was a very elderly...

The Final Word:* makeup UPDATED

Everything there is to say about makeup . Everything! (Did I miss anything?) -Yes, heterosexual men, whether or not women wear makeup is all...

Scripts

I've read through Autumn Whitefield-Madrano's series on beauty and infidelity , and was struck by one thing that just about never ...

How dare movies acknowledge the female gaze!

Max Read of Gawker brings our attention to (and nicely tears apart) a painfully misogynistic op-ed by Richard Cohen. Cohen doesn't lik...

Man oh man UPDATED

A woman writes in to Prudence , insists that she's super duper tolerant, then confesses that she's not sure if she should stay with ...

The no time for a boyfriend brigade

Hanna Rosin's Atlantic story about how the hook-up culture benefits - and is perpetuated by - young women is kind of great. Finally, so...

Fundamental human rights

-The Atlantic had a piece recently by Talia Minsberg about Israel's new skinny-model ban . The comments go in precisely the two directio...

The height of philanthropy

-There was a girl in my high school class whose stomach really did go in, or at least not poke out, even when she sat down. Perfect skin and...

The male gays

Hilton Als, in a recent New Yorker , wrote of a well-known mid-century writer, that he "found a number of ways to talk about his sexual...

Burying the lede

There's a new Rufus Wainwright music video , for "Out of the Game." In it, three Rufuses make out at a library, with one anoth...

Johan the Plumber

When the rest of socially-liberal American womankind was still worried that we were looking at a Santorum presidency (or are we still?), I w...

Shabbat Shalom indeed

WWPD would not be WWPD if I did not set aside the latest JStor find for a moment to share with you, my readers, something that hits upon all...

Inherently inaccurate

Dan Savage really does seem hung up on this idea that women have the capacity to be attracted to the person , regardless of gender . He got...

But who Irons his shirts?

Just as the daughters of famous people are invariably classified as "models," so it goes with the sons. A failure in the fight aga...

Choice, feminism

Cynthia "Miranda" Nixon chose to be gay . Good for her? Not so simple! The principle controversy here is that if homosexuality is ...