In 2011, right around the time I transitioned from earning a Master’s degree to my Ph.D. program, Peggy Orenstein published Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture. Orenstein had made her career as a journalist by reporting on the issues that adolescent girls face and on her own … Continue reading
Yesterday afternoon, my sometimes-collaborator, always-friend Megan (whose reviews you can read at Review To Be Named) and I went to see Frozen. Because I’ve been otherwise occupied, I hadn’t kept up with the buzz about the film and so I didn’t really know what to expect. Overall, I loved it a lot. There are some obvious … Continue reading
When I was a small child (~3-5), I was obsessed with The Little Mermaid. It was my favorite movie–and the first I saw in the theater. For Halloween one year, a friend of my mother’s handmade a Little Mermaid costume for me. It was amazing. I wish I had it to show it to you. … Continue reading
In further pageant news, according to a New York Times article, the French Senate has passed legislation that would ban beauty pageants for girls younger than 16 years old. The ban was folded into larger legislation aimed at promoting gender equality, which now moves to the National Assembly for further discussion and a vote. The … Continue reading
Last year Amy Odell at Buzzfeed posted an article, “How Pinterest is Killing Feminism,” which spawned related articles such as this one at Feminspire. I’m going to sidestep how annoying it is that everyone wants to say feminism is dead or dying all the time. (It’s alive and well, thanks. And online. #Femfuture) The articles, … Continue reading
Okay, I really like Kate Middleton for the mostly superficial reasons any commoner who likes her likes her. I was never big on the royal baby bandwagon, but I still kept hoping for a girl. When is the last time this royal family produced a girl, anyway? Here’s why: 1) In my mind, this child … Continue reading
Julie Andrews visited The Colbert Report on Tuesday to promote her newest book The Very Fairy Princess Follows Her Heart. Stephen Colbert does such great interviews, in my opinion, because he asks what sound like skeptical questions, but actually sets the guest up to explain what he or she is doing in very clear terms for … Continue reading
About a year ago, I questioned the controversy over Zooey Deschanel, an actress whose nerdy girlie image I vaguely identify with. I couldn’t tell, however, if she knew what she was doing or if she was kind of selling out. Well, to be short and sweet, Deschanel, Glamour‘s covergirl for February (see right) has officially … Continue reading
Right after I wrote about how wonderful things were and how I was practicing great habits and ra-ra yay go me, life got really full. Good things happened, busy things happened, sad things happened. Plus schoolwork and grading. So, I’ve got some blog posts that I’m working on, but they involve research so the going … Continue reading
I’ve been spending an embarrassing amount of my spare time this summer at one with the Netflix. I would cancel my subscription when school starts if I weren’t sure they would screw me over on fees when I returned. Anyway, one of the shows I’ve been catching up on is Fox’s Bones, staring Emily Deschanel … Continue reading
Ph.D.s and Pigtails 