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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
Friday, March 14, 2008 - Posts
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In regard to Eliot Spitzer, I keep thinking about Bill Clinton and Halle Berry's ex-husband, and I'm wondering which actions are forgivable/excusable and which are not. If someone is a sex addict, as Halle Berry's ex-husband supposedly is, we treat it Read More...
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Right, so my best friends and I occasionally went to bars and told men we were on spring break from mime school. Then we would do “mimes climbing the rope” and “mimes feeling the wall in front of them” until someone bought Sevgi a drink. Of course Sevgi Read More...
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I had a friend one time who decided to tell the men at the bar she was a forensic pathologist. I am not sure what, if anything, it accomplished. I guess it beat telling them she was a lawyer. And so do you think the guy sitting next to me on the plane Read More...
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In college, I had a friend whose favorite thing was trying on different personas in bars, spinning all kinds of wild life stories just for the fun of it. (Excellent storyteller, that one.) So one time when I went home with her for the weekend, she got Read More...
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I like the following detail of Ashley Dupre's (I mean, "Kristen"; I mean, Ashley Youmans) biography. According to the New York Post , part of the reason she left home was that she crashed her oral-surgeon stepfather's Porsche. Like you, Hanna, I thought Read More...
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Well, fine then. How does this sound: I am 24 years old. I grew up in Venezuela, although my mother was Danish. When I was 8 years old, a child welfare worker discovered I'd been abused by my stepfather and placed me in a black foster home. (Oh wait, Read More...
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Funny Hanna , I am having no trouble at all reconciling sweet middle-class baby-sitting Ashley with starving streetwise Ashley with elegant upscale hooker Ashley. They’re all clichés. At one point or another I had each of those Barbies in my collection. Read More...
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Hanna, I think it’s always a better story to go from rags to riches as a pop singer than to be just another pretty face from the privileged ’burbs, isn’t it? That hasn’t been sexy since Debbie Gibson, if it ever was—or at least it’s not nearly as compelling. Read More...
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OK, so I am a sucker, or at the very least confused. Ashley grew up in a nice middle-class suburban neighborhood? She spent her young days cheerleading and putting up signs for baby-sitting? So, can someone answer me these questions? 1. Why does a nice Read More...
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I, too, was fascinated by the piece about Obama's late mother, which seemed an overdue corrective to the attention typically given to his late dad. She was such an interesting mix of ‘50s and ‘60s (and '70s and '80s and '90s ...) womanhood: marrying at Read More...
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Sort of. On MySpace, all is not as it seems . Who'da thunk it? So, I retract what I said about " working class ," and I hereby downgrade Ashley Dupre to merely "messed up." Read More...
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"Deserve got nuthin' to do with it."—Snoop (and before her, Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven .) Whatever the mix of bad breaks and pathology and misguided, "I Wanna Be a Supermodel" ambition that led Ashley Dupre to the Emperors' Club, I feel sorry for anybody Read More...
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Today’s NYT cover story on Obama’s late mother , Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, contains one passage that gave me a sinking feeling: In Hawaii she married an African student at age 18. Then she married an Indonesian, moved to Jakarta, became an anthropologist, Read More...
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