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Salon.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... at least, upon the cannibalistic album cover.) Experiencing déjà vu? Just yesterday, Mary Elizabeth Williams wrote about Marilyn Manson's torture porn music video , which depicts the singer beating to death a woman who is a (literal) dead-ringer for his real-life ex-girlfriend (whom he says he fantasizes about murdering on a daily basis). Aside from a fascination...
scanners (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... " Tattooed Under Fire ." I haven't seen it in advance (my TiVo is set to record it tonight), but Mary Elizabeth Williams wrote at Salon.com just a few days ago: "This is Fort Hood, and it goes on for miles and miles and miles." Director Nancy Schiesari's riveting documentary, "Tattooed Under Fire," about the River City parlor in Killeen, Texas, and the soldiers who patronize...
Paperholic (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
»You like that, baby? You like that'« asked HE who had been jackhammering away for what felt like hours… And then, somewhere around the 18th time he said it, it hit me - I wasn’t just having bad sex. I was having bad porn sex. Mary Elizabeth Williams: How not to make love like a porn star - Hey, guys: Are adult films making you bad at sex? (Salon.com,...
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
In the middle of an underwhelming bedroom session with a lover she dubbed “Mr. Jackhammer,” Mary Elizabeth Williams had an epiphany: Men (and probably some women) are learning far too many of their moves from porn, and it’s time to stop. “Thinking you can learn to make to love to...
Dante and the Lobster (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Mary Elizabeth Williams has a hilarious article up over at Salon " How Not to Make Love Like a Porn Star" which argues that watching porn makes men bad lovers. There's a whole generation of dudes growing up with unlimited access to the triple x stuff. Feminist bloggers such as Nine Deuce have articulated the problematics of porn and how the industry treats women like...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The is now almost as popular as porn itself, raising the question: are we overthinking sex?The latest to take porn to task for ruining modern fucking is Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams. She ,Convenience, ubiquity, and the goal-oriented, money-shot, male-centric perspective of most porn (hint: women don't need to see that much fellatio) have changed us. Much has been written on...
Later On (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
And quite deservedly so, I’d say. Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon.com: When Paul Haggis, the writer of "Million Dollar Baby" and "Crash," kicked his faith to the curb after 35 years, he did so as only an Oscar-winning scribe could: with a badass screed. His resignation letter, dated Aug. 19, emerged on ex-Scientologist Mark Rathburn’s blog [...]...
Dangerous Intersection (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
What can be done about your Facebook friends who die ? According to an article by Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon.com, Facebook is coming up with some solutions centered on "memorial pages." Williams also gives this advice: Be careful what profile pic you post or what your friends write on your wall -- it might be your last enduring image. Related posts: Facebook...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... be referred to as their while" (Douglas, "The Notion," The Nation, 10/16). In a related blog post, Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon's "" examined a segment from the Oct. 14 episode of "" on Franken's bill. The segment was less than five minutes long but included the word "rape" 10 times, "cutting through all the euphemisms and obfuscation to the clear-cut issue at hand," Williams...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
... problem with the performance. Further, the majority of Australians are defending the minstrelsy. Mary Elizabeth Williams, at Salon , summarizes: In a poll on PerthNow.com.au, 81 percent of respondents said the sketch was not racist, with other newspapers clocking in with similar percentages. Punch deputy editor Tory Maguire glumly asserted that “The 2.5 million Australians...
