Topic: stereotypes

The ’30 Project’: What Turning 30 Really Looks Like Today

The '30 Project': What Turning 30 Really Looks Like Today

“The year to six months before you turn 30 you start getting more and more nervous about it, and I really do think it’s just manufactured pressure,” says Corina Marie Howell. A Los Angeles-based commercial photographer, Howell makes a living shooting campaigns for companies like Bare Escentuals and Sephora. But she was recently inspired to embark on something a little different: A series of portraits of and interviews exploring just what turning 30 means for women today. She calls it, aptly, the 30 Project. More »

8 Unpleasantly Problematic Things Ric Delgado Said About ‘Plump’ Female Musicians

8 Unpleasantly Problematic Things Ric Delgado Said About 'Plump' Female Musicians

Ric Delgado is a music writer for local paper Broward New Times, and yesterday, he really, really bombed his job—nay, life—with an article for their music blog titled “Eight Pleasantly Plump Female Musicians We’d Like to Get Down With.” It was problematic, as you can gather from title alone, and it was also taken down today (but GirlGroup has screenshots of the original post) with an apology from Delgado himself, along with a link to a well-written follow up from his bewildered colleague, Arielle Castillo, about why it wasn’t OK. More »

An Open Letter to My Future Husband and Sister Wives From Your Potential 5th Wife (Here’s Hoping!)

An Open Letter to My Future Husband and Sister Wives From Your Potential 5th Wife (Here's Hoping!)

Dear Kody, Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn:

DAMN, y’all have a lot of kids! (Oops, are we not supposed to say damn? Sorry, I’ll work on that.) I’m so flattered that y’all are considering me to be Mrs. Brown #5. What an honor! I love watching y’all on Sister Wives on TLC. So I guess it was fate that y’all just happened to accidentally back into my car with your giant Suburban in the Walmart parking lot. And Kody, it was so cute when you said: “Aw, shoot, we’re sorry. Now, we could exchange insurance information like everybody does, or we could all just marry you instead!” (Seriously, though, have y’all submitted that insurance paperwork yet?)

As you know, I didn’t grow up in a polygamist household. My whole life, I’ve dreamed of being married to just one man — and four other ladies. See, my upbringing was very strange and dysfunctional: My parents were only ever married to each other. And they didn’t have, like, 37 children. They only had two. Throughout their marriage, my parents lived in the same house and slept in the same bed. My father didn’t sleep with my mother every third or fourth night, and retire to the bedrooms of his other wives on the other nights. You can see how this type of arrangement would have been extremely traumatic for a child. More »