Porque quem é que tem tempo para ler artigos longos durante a semana? Estas leituras pertencem aos sábados de manhã, com um café e uma torrada. E se só tiverem tempo para 10, que sejam estes.
Impossibilities: The Internet Lies to Me So Wonderfully (sgcbsg)
This photo alone is a tidy bit of visual primary historical documentation: three “Modern” femmes smoking pipes on a beach in seeming defiance of societal gender norms. The photo’s historical relevance carries little weight for media farming, however. Independently, it would not generate enough interest to garner wonted “re-posts” on Tumblr or to produce repeated “pins” on Pinterest. Therefore, someone re-imagined this photo as having greater significance than it denotes beyond its direct and firsthand fundamentals. … (ler mais)
Broke Girls and Rich Bitches: the Strange Economy of Women on TV (Grantland)
I’ve watched more television in the past three or four years than I watched in the previous 27 or 28. This is mostly because I was limited, as a kid, to occasional and closely monitored rendezvous with basic cable — 90210, Melrose Place, and My So-Called Life were covertly viewed at friends’ houses, or on VHS and the lowest volume while my parents slept — and then I was way too cool for TV for about a decade and a half. But then, then there was 30 Rock, and a subsequent and growing cohort of shows that were about and often created by women, overwhelmingly without the usual tropes of Hollywood-y girl-lives, in which supporting a man’s pursuit of something is the entirety of what’s up. Obviously, I had to see all of it. … (ler mais)
Former Vogue editor: The truth about size zero (Guardian)
One of the most controversial aspects of fashion magazines, and the fashion industry, is models. Specifically, how young they are and how thin they are. It’s a topic that continues to create endless debate, in the press and in the community. As the editor of Australian Vogue, my opinion was constantly sought on these issues, and the images we produced in the magazine were closely scrutinised. It’s a precarious subject, and there are many unpleasant truths beneath the surface that are not discussed or acknowledged publicly. … (ler mais)
The First Black Supermodel, Whom History Forgot (The Cut)
It’s slow progress since Donyale Luna became the first black supermodel nearly 50 years ago. Especially since most inveterate fashion-watchers don’t even know Luna’s name.… (ler mais)
“The Lone Ranger” Should Have Been Left Alone (The New Yorker)
Problem: If a pop-culture standby is retrievable only in the form of nostalgia for a state of moral infancy, what do you do with it?… (ler mais)
Do They Ever Make Movies About Women? A Mathematical Analysis From 1989–2013 (Vulture)
In the words of NPR’s Linda Holmes, who wrote about the problem last month, “if you want to go to see a movie in the theater and see a current movie about a woman — any story about any woman that isn’t a documentary or a cartoon — you can’t.” … (ler mais)
I was a Manic Pixie Dream Girl (Newstatesman)
Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else’s. … (ler mais)
How to Be the Perfect Slut (Jezebel)
There’s no insult in the English language like “slut”: hurled as abuse, it can have a devastating impact. Being designated a “slut” can be reputation-ruining; however, it can also be taken as a compliment in certain situations, as a signifier of sexual attractiveness. A “good slut” is someone fun, sex-positive, and sexy — such a Samantha! Such a Jessa from GIRLS! Tequila shots for all my sluts! A “bad slut,” on the other hand, is someone who deserves the full force of our collective scorn and disdain. What’s the difference, though?… (ler mais)
James Cameron Also Thinks Hollywood Uses 3-D Too Often (Vulture)
“China won’t look at anything that isn’t 3-D, which means everything is made that way — even with domestic audiences rejecting it.” It’s gotten so egregious that even the medium’s pioneer, James Cameron, is complaining. … (ler mais)
Watch the Vampires: How Jay-Z and Kanye West Feast on Young Talent (Grantland)
Ebony Oshunrinde’s life is different now. Two months ago, she was a 16-year-old Ontario, Canada, native about to complete 11th grade. Today she has a production credit on a Jay-Z album. Oshunrinde’s is the most humanizing story born of Jay-Z’s new phone-album, Magna Carta … Holy Grail. It’s also a microcosm of contemporary rap superstardom’s machinery. … (ler mais)
The Dissolve discusses the films of the summer (so far) (The Dissolve)
13 conversations between The Dissolve writers about cities leveled, apocalypses of the man-made and zombie variety, and other fun-filled entertainments from the months of May and June. … (ler mais)
‘Brooklyn Girl’: The Selling of a New Type (NY Mag)
Dunham didn’t create the Brooklyn Girl but she cemented her stereotype into popular consciousness. It’s an archetype that most New Yorkers readily recognize: The well-educated liberal arts grad with a degree in English but no real skill set. Brooklyn Girls wear brown, not black; they go to beer gardens, not lounges or clubs with bottle service; they listen to Spotify, not DJs; they drink bourbon, not scotch. If they diet, it’s under the pretense of healthy eating and frugality; if they exercise, it’s in a park or on a bike. They aspire to have jobs in publishing, not PR. They have artistic temperaments, but think a Pinterest board is the perfect outlet for it; they consume news through Twitter. They live in Brooklyn, supposedly because Manhattan is overpriced. (Not the case in 2013!) But really, they live in Brooklyn because that’s where they can play out their millennial urban agita rituals with others like themselves. … (ler mais)
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