Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo Terry Richardson’s photograph of Miranda Kerr, on the cover of the February issue of Harper’s Bazaar.Credit It’s been a big week for forgiveness in fashion: John Galliano made his reappearance on the runway under the aegis of Maison Margiela, and the American Harper’s Bazaar and Rolling Stone unveiled their latest covers, courtesy of the…
Terry Richardson’s eight-month exile from the covers of mainstream American magazines has come to an end, with his work fronting the February issues of both Rolling Stone and Harper’s Bazaar. The controversial photographer shot at least 10 mainstream U.S. covers in 2013, but work dried up in the spring of 2014, after the latest and…
Fewer than 1 in 5 members of corporate boards at major companies are women, according to a new census of board members by Catalyst, a non-profit organization that promotes women in business leadership. The further up the corporate ladder, you look, the scarcer and scarcer women become — while women make up 45 percent of the…
by Tara Culp-Ressler Posted on January 11, 2015 at 10:41 am Updated: January 12, 2015 at 2:31 pm “1 In 3 College Men In Survey Say They Would Rape A Woman If They Could Get Away With It” CREDIT: Joseph Kaczmarek/AP Images Nearly one in three college men admit they might rape a woman if they…
If she is attractive; tell your readers exactly how attractive, within the first paragraph. Speculate on whether she is attracted to you. If she has become successful and not moved to a Western country; ask why, speculate on if she realizes how attractive she is: could this be the reason why she hasn’t moved? If…
Photo Credit Keetra Dean Dixon close shareTools YEARS ago, while producing the hit TV series “The Shield,” Glen Mazzara noticed that two young female writers were quiet during story meetings. He pulled them aside and encouraged them to speak up more. Watch what happens when we do, they replied. Almost every time they started to…
John, you’ll conduct Percy, you’ll be on violin what’s my instrument, Papa? your instrument is listening, Mary the greatest instrument of all you don’t have to point that so close to me well you keep backing away, silly how are you supposed to really hear it if you keep backing away into corners oh i…
During his show in Canada on Thursday night, Bill Cosby reportedly told a woman in the crowd to “be careful about drinking around me.” According to tweets from Richard Warnica, Cosby’s performance at Budweiser Gardens in London, Ontario took a pretty fucked up turn when a woman got up to get a drink and Cosby…
I feel your pain, bitter, lonely, nerdy guys. I really do. It sounds corny to say it like that, but I don’t know how to say it and be believed. I know that because, having experienced this emotion from the inside for most of my life, I sure as hell resisted believing it when I…
“//www.youtube.com/embed/kSSze9A6X9E” width=”640″> Boy, times sure were tough for women in the 1940s! It’s so great that now in modern times we live in a completely equal society where women are treated the same way as men are and—oh. Oh. (via Leigh Lahav) Are you following The Mary Sue on “https://twitter.com/#!/TheMarySue/” target= “_blank”>Twitter, “http://www.facebook.com/themarysue” target= “_blank”>Facebook, target=”_blank”>Tumblr,…