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The more things change, the more they stay the g*ddamn same

Meet Lizzie Miller. Lizzie is a 20-year-old model who ap­pears in the cur­rent September is­sue of Glamour mag­a­zine. Lizzie has cre­ated a buz­zs­torm on the Interweb be­cause she LOOKS LIKE EVERY WOMAN YOU KNOW. A size 12 – 14, she is de­scribed in the ac­com­pa­ny­ing ar­ti­cle as “curvy”, “plus-size” and “nor­mal”. The mag’s web­site has been in­un­dated with read­ers’ comments […]

The Notorious Bettie Page, R.I.P.

Bettie Page, fifties pinup queen and sex­ual pi­o­neer, passed away yes­ter­day at the age of 85. She wasn’t as hugely pop­u­lar as Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield or other sex sym­bols of her gen­er­a­tion, but still man­aged to de­velop a huge cult-like fol­low­ing, de­spite giv­ing up the busi­ness in 1959 to de­vote her­self to God. I’ve been a fan of […]

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