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 prais­ing Glamour […]

When I was in university, I took a few feminist-driven courses. In one of the classes, we were shown a pre­sen­ta­tion on sex­ism and misog­yny in ad­ver­tis­ing. Open up any fash­ion mag­a­zine, we were told, and re­ally LOOK at each im­age. Why is that women naked and sur­rounded by fully clothed, men­ac­ing men? Why is that model on her knees? […]

…be­cause I am em­bar­rassed. I have the worst case of sun­burn in re­cent mem­ory.
When I was young, before there was talk of de­plet­ing ozone lay­ers and melanoma, my 14-year-old self would slather on baby oil and bake in the sun. When I was 30 years old, I would visit a tan­ning sa­lon to ac­quire a ‘base tan’ be­fore spend­ing days bak­ing un­der the Mediterranean sun. Born with a more […]

I re­ceived this in my junk email folder at work to­day. Clearly, my spam fil­ters are set too high — I nar­rowly missed be­ing rec­og­nized for my achieve­ments.
Dear Bonnie,
It is my plea­sure to in­form you that you are be­ing con­sid­ered for in­clu­sion into the 2009 – 2010 Princeton Premier Business Leaders and Professionals Honors Edition sec­tion of the reg­istry.
The 2009 – 2010 edition […]

Over brunch with some girl­friends to­day, the con­ver­sa­tion turned to on­line dat­ing, as it so fre­quently does when you get a bunch of sin­gle girls to­gether. We all have pro­files on a cer­tain dat­ing site and shared our dat­ing hor­ror sto­ries. It re­minded me of a re­cent ex­change I had with some­one on the site. It’s so au­da­ciously head-shaking […]