Schmaltzy Title, Bangin’ Essay
Don’t let the self-help title fool you, this The Rumpus essay by Emily Rapp is no schmaltzy ode to girls’ night and chick flicks. “Transformation and Transcendance: The Power of Female Friendship” is a...
View ArticleHow to make a bro friend
This week at Role/Reboot, I wrote about how hard it can be, post-college, to make new cross-gender, platonic friends. As to the title of this post, I learned the answer. Want to make bro-friends? Write...
View ArticleCouple or Bust?
This was a tough one to write. I knew I wanted to talk about the idea of “the primacy of the couple” and different kinds of love. I knew I wanted to include some of Eric Klinenberg’s Going Solo...
View ArticleIf women don’t talk about men all the time, what do we talk about?
Remember the Bechdel Test? It’s that set of three rules that helps determine the presence of women in TV and movies? Rule 3 stipulates that two women must discuss something other than a man. Back when...
View ArticleS(Monday) Scraps 106
1. WEIGHT: How not to be a dick to your fat friends. Spot on advice from Marianne at XOJane. 2. HOLLYWOOD: This clip is old, but man is it good. Watch Dustin Hoffman have a few on-camera epiphanies...
View ArticleThe worst breakup ever, and we weren’t even sleeping together
To kick of 2014 for Role/Reboot I wrote about the friend-breakup. Not the gradual kind, where you sort of grow apart and drift away aided either by distance or different life choices. No, I’m talking...
View ArticleSo Many Things!
It has been quite a while, my dear Internet friends. I’d apologize for the absence but I’m having way too much fun at my new job to want to apologize for it. The Matilda Effect is still ongoing and I’m...
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