Mary Elizabeth Williams

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Kill the Web's Dumbest, Most Annoying Symbol: The Smiley X-(

Switched (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009

... keyboards, and scream "Enough is enough!"? Is it time that we finally kill the smiley ? Mary Elizabeth Williams, in a pleasantly snarky article for Salon , tackles these questions in perhaps the best articulated diatribe against the typographical glyph that we've all come to love... or hate. Williams bemoans the proliferation of the smiley species, describing...

The Great Emoticon Debate Rages On ;-) [Emo Girls]

Jezebel (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009

Writes Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams, "Smart people, nay, brilliant ones use emoticons. Articulate, bright, funny people. Yet when I see a smiley, my first thought is, 'What are you, 12 years... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Down With Emoticons

Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009

Since its inception in 1982, the "smiley" has been used in a number of ways, all of which make Mary Elizabeth Williams "want to smack the half circle off its stupid face." Even though bright people use emoticons, "when I see a smiley, my first thought is, 'What are you,...

"Does He Like It, Baby, Does He Like It?" Is Porn Ever Bad For Men's Sex Lives?

Figleaf's Real Adult Sex (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009

Via someone or other on Twitter, Ashley Lindstrom of Zelda Lily takes a tip from Mary Elizabeth Williams (at Salon.com ) and the magic question: Is Porn Making Men Bad at Sex? [Williams] suggests that “the goal-oriented, money-shot, male-centric perspective of most porn (hint: Women don’t need to see that much fellatio) have changed us.” The ubiquity of...

Shop less, give more: Get motivated for greener, leaner holidays

green LA girl (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009

... season: >> Scrooge has a bad rep, but simply buying fewer crappy gifts won’t make you a scrooge. Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon interviewed Joel Waldfogel , author of Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays — and she doesn’t want you to be put off by the title: The book is no polemic; it’s a study in retail trends, spending and debt habits, and a simple...

Salon Bashes Google for Allowing Racist Monkey Image of Mrs. Obama

Nearly Nobody's News (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009

From Newsbusters Kevin Williamson at NRO Media Blog really lets Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon.com have it as she strongly blamed Google for a demeaning racist image of Michelle Obama... Read Story Here is what I found with a quick "george bush/ mrs obama monkey search" I can see how it is in poor taste but I fail to see the racism involved. Michelle Obama George...

Salon Bashes Google for Allowing Racist Monkey Image of Mrs. Obama; But Salon Reveled in Bush-as-Chimp Metaphors

NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009

Kevin Williamson at NRO Media Blog really lets Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon.com have it as she strongly blamed Google for a demeaning racist image of Michelle Obama. Miss Williams believes that Google is at fault here, even though the search engine simply compiles what's out there, and she bemoans the "near total lack of accountability for the whole rather...

New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good

Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

I wasn't going to both going to see the new Disney cartoon, "The Princess on the Frog," first because Disney's campaign to turn princesses into pure little-girl-crack is tiresome-verging-on-offensive, and second because it looked like a trite and opportunistic way to bring in African-American viewers. But Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams has me convinced. This sounds like...

New Disney princess movie sounds pretty good

Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

I wasn't going to both going to see the new Disney cartoon, "The Princess on the Frog," first because Disney's campaign to turn princesses into pure little-girl-crack is tiresome-verging-on-offensive, and second because it looked like a trite and opportunistic way to bring in African-American viewers. But Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams has me convinced. This sounds like...

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Breast cancer guidelines could harm black women

Salon.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

On Wednesday, Broadsheet's Mary Elizabeth Williams laid out some good reasons to be skeptical of The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force's new guidelines for breast cancer screening, which suggest mammograms every two years for women 50-74, as opposed to every year for women over 40. Although "the report does make a persuasive case that not all cancers are life-threatening,...

Best Soap Opera Cameos

Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

(Newser) – James Franco’s much-hyped General Hospital guest stint began Friday, but can he live up to the true classics of the celebrity cameo genre? Many other luminaries have guested on daytime TV, and “they almost always shake things up like a schizophrenic with a fake pregnancy interrupting a wedding in a tornado.” Mary Elizabeth Williams runs down the best of the best on —watch...

HNT Editorial: "Sex" Tapes and the Mundanity of Women in Winter Pants

Figleaf's Real Adult Sex (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

Anna N of Jezebel has some information for your Half-Nekkid Thursday “I told you so” files. Carrie Prejean may have called her sex tape “the biggest mistake of my life,” but according to Salon , we are totally over watching celebrities bone. Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Williams writes that “it was a big freaking deal when Rob Lowe had a romp with...

Like Carrie Prejean, Sex Tapes Are Narcissistic, Ultimately Boring [Sex Lives And Videotape]

Jezebel (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

Carrie Prejean may have called her sex tape "the biggest mistake of my life," but according to Salon, we are totally over watching celebrities bone. Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams writes that "it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Dead chicks rock

Salon.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

... 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...