Salon.com > Kate Harding http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 01:30:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How I bluffed my way through college http://www.salon.com/2011/04/19/my_mediocre_college_career/ http://www.salon.com/2011/04/19/my_mediocre_college_career/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2011/04/18/my_mediocre_college_career Mr. White was that stern, older English teacher adored by the bookish nerds and despised by those students accustomed to getting by on entitlement and shouty parental phone calls. Naturally, I was crazy about him, and although I can't say the feeling was entirely mutual, two lines from a college recommendation letter he wrote for me prove that he understood my fundamental nature better than most adults I knew, including my parents: "Kate will never be a cheerleader, but she has a genuine love of learning. She is never without a book; usually not the assigned text."

I love that "assigned text" line all the more for its being sort of affectionately passive-aggressive. It's true that in Mr. White's A.P. Major British Writers, as in every English lit class I took between seventh grade and finishing my B.A., I only did about a third of the reading. Thanks to a finicky nature and what I now recognize as textbook ADHD, reading past Page 3 of a book that didn't immediately hold my interest felt like going to the zoo and being forced to watch the naked mole rats for hours, never being permitted to look in on the giraffes.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/04/19/my_mediocre_college_career/feed/ 146 The rush to smear Assange’s rape accuser http://www.salon.com/2010/12/07/julian_assange_rape_accuser_smeared/ http://www.salon.com/2010/12/07/julian_assange_rape_accuser_smeared/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/politics//war_room/2010/12/07/julian_assange_rape_accuser_smeared You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to find the timing of Interpol's warrant for the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who turned himself in to British authorities today, curious. The charges -- "one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation and one count of rape," according to a statement from Scotland Yard -- were brought against him in Sweden last August, yet he suddenly graduated to "most wanted" status just after releasing over a thousand leaked diplomatic cables in late November? It would be irresponsible of journalists, bloggers and average citizens of countries most eager to plug the gushing WikiLeaks not to wonder if those dots connect.

Still, as the New York Times put it, "there is no public evidence to suggest a connection," which some members of the public seem to find unbearably frustrating. With no specific target for their suspicions and no easy way to find one, folks all over the blogosphere have been settling for the next best thing: making light of the sexual assault charges and smearing one of the alleged victims.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/12/07/julian_assange_rape_accuser_smeared/feed/ 263 I hate smoking laws, but they helped me quit http://www.salon.com/2010/09/01/smoking_laws_helped_me_quit/ http://www.salon.com/2010/09/01/smoking_laws_helped_me_quit/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/2010/09/01/smoking_laws_helped_me_quit On the flight back from Madrid, I still had the kind of cough that sounds like someone struggling to start a recalcitrant lawn mower, the kind that involves all your muscles from the abdomen up and makes perfect strangers cringe -- half in sympathy, half in fear of getting whatever you've got. A week earlier, in an Edinburgh emergency room, I'd been diagnosed with a "chest infection," a term I'd initially understood to be British for "bronchitis," but now I was beginning to wonder if the doctor actually meant something more like pleurisy or pneumonia or TB or perhaps an army of sentient bacteria systematically slashing my alveoli with tiny knives. Seated next to me as I hacked was not my traveling companion (just as well, since it was killing her not to be openly pissed about how my illness had wrecked all sorts of plans, from mildly challenging day hikes to staying in cheap dorm rooms with strangers) but a pink-cheeked 10-year-old boy whose family had only been able to secure three seats together on the flight and had chosen him for exile to the back of the plane. As we took off, I chatted with him about his parents and baby sister and recent vacation, coughing all the while, occasionally apologizing and reassuring the child I'd been on antibiotics for a week, so I was unlikely to still be contagious.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/09/01/smoking_laws_helped_me_quit/feed/ 85 The absurd call for a “mom on the Supreme Court” http://www.salon.com/2010/04/27/supreme_court_moms/ http://www.salon.com/2010/04/27/supreme_court_moms/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/04/27/supreme_court_moms Just the title and teaser for Peter Beinart's recent piece about the importance of female role models (and why Obama should pick Diane Wood over Elena Kagan as his next Supreme Court nominee) in The Daily Beast had me WTF-ing something fierce. (To be fair, it's entirely possible that both of those were written by an editor, but since they set the tone for Beinart's argument, let's start there anyway.) Title: "Put a Mom on the Supreme Court." OK, you mean besides Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose name somehow never comes up here? Or, if we include past justices, Sandra Day O'Connor? Beinart's concerned that women with children are "underrepresented in high office," and sees the decision between Kagan and Wood as an opportunity to redress that, but by my count, there's been exactly one woman without children on the Supreme Court in all of American history, and she's been there for about five minutes, so I fail to see a worrying trend here.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/04/27/supreme_court_moms/feed/ 36 Dispelling Sandra Bullock’s “Oscar curse” http://www.salon.com/2010/03/19/best_actress_curse/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/19/best_actress_curse/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:09:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/19/best_actress_curse Poor Sandra Bullock and Kate Winslet. Just moments -- or in the latter case, a year -- after winning Best Actress Oscars, they've lost their marriages. Why, it's almost as though there's a curse on the women who take home that statue! Or perhaps it's something a little more down-to-earth; Nicole LaPorte at The Daily Beast wonders, "Is the ultimate honor for women in Hollywood the ultimate castration for men?"

Consider: In addition to Bullock and Winslet, Jane Wyman, Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry, Hilary Swank and Helen Hunt all got divorced within a couple years of winning Academy Awards -- and Julia Roberts broke up with Benjamin Bratt not long after she did. (Also, although Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick have been married for over a decade, and she's never been nominated for an Oscar, LaPorte would like you to know that Broderick was "glumly trailing his wife" on the red carpet this year, as she "was fawned over by the paparazzi and fashion police." Beverly Hills psychiatrist Carole Lieberman agrees that "He was looking miserable the whole time" and her success "may well doom that marriage." So there's that.) Since at least three of these break-ups famously involved the male partners cheating -- and we all know that never happens unless a guy is feeling threatened by a woman's success -- what more evidence do we need that the fundamental problem in each relationship was men suffering "the ultimate castration"? (Aside from, you know, actual castration, which I imagine would feel somewhat more definitive to the man experiencing it.)

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/19/best_actress_curse/feed/ 35 Women’s fiction: All misery and martinis? http://www.salon.com/2010/03/19/womens_fiction/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/19/womens_fiction/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:20:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/19/womens_fiction On Thursday, the New York Times' Idea of the Day was: "Is women's fiction plagued by 'misery lit,' obsessed with bereavement, child abuse and rape? Or 'chick lit,' obsessed with Prada handbags and landing the perfect catch? Or is it torn between the two?"

Here's my idea of the day: It's both -- and much more. The Times post references two other articles -- an Independent interview with Daisy Goodwin, who chaired the jury for this year's Orange Prize, and a Standpoint post by author Jessica Duchen -- which frame the debate. Goodwin said of the bleak, issue-driven submissions she read for the Orange Prize -- awarded to the best English-language novel written by a woman in a given year -- "There was very little wit, and no jokes. If I read another sensitive account of a woman coming to terms with bereavement, I was going to slit my wrists." Duchen, who admits she's "working on a novel that's in part, oh dear, a sensitive account of a woman coming to terms with bereavement," counters that if an unusual number of female novelists "have resorted to the tactic of choosing themes that are as dark and miserable as possible," it's probably because "[w]e are sick to death of the assumption that because we are women we must be writing CHICKLIT." Such writers crank up the grim, she says, "So that nobody can possibly consider putting a girly-wurly cover on top of it. So that we have to be taken bloody seriously for a change. Because publishers - who are often women themselves - are perpetrating via their presentation a miserable sexist assumption that women writers only write fluff, and that that is all women readers want to read."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/19/womens_fiction/feed/ 13 Her mouth says no, but her lip gloss says yes http://www.salon.com/2010/03/18/mood_lip_gloss/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/18/mood_lip_gloss/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:19:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/18/mood_lip_gloss So, here's the worst idea I've heard all week: Lip gloss that lets everyone around you know you're horny. "The saucy slap changes from clear to deep crimson as the wearer feels frisky," reports The Sun. "It works by reacting with a girl's body chemistry. And each £12 tube comes with a colour chart so men can work out how randy their partner is feeling." Well, that all sounds reassuringly scientific.

Mood lipstick, like its notoriously inaccurate cousin the mood ring, is hardly new; I recall it being all the rage when I was still in elementary school, and I doubt that was the first time. But as far as I know, this is the first iteration that's been marketed as a translator of female desire for befuddled men who would otherwise have no idea if they stood to get lucky. Which is just a terrific idea, except for a few things. 1) If "reacting with a girl's body chemistry" means the changes are heat-activated, as they are with mood rings and similar products, a "frisky" reading could mean a whole lot of other things. There's still a shocking number of grown men out there who haven't fully grasped that erect nipples aren't always the result of being turned on -- do we really want to give them one more thing to misinterpret? 2) Even if one's lipgloss accurately reflects arousal, feeling aroused does not necessarily mean one wants to have sex right this minute. 3) Even if one wants to have sex right this minute, one doesn't necessarily want to have it with whoever happens to be around when her lip gloss goes scarlet.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/18/mood_lip_gloss/feed/ 48 Fashion’s bad boy perv goes too far http://www.salon.com/2010/03/17/terry_richardson/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/17/terry_richardson/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:10:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/17/terry_richardson Not much is truly made clear by the recent spate of articles about photographer Terry Richardson -- either a misunderstood genius or a tampon tea-loving predator, depending on whom you ask -- but I've come to a couple of firm conclusions after reading several of them. 1) Terry Richardson has a lot of powerful friends. 2) The fact that so many people seem to like him is quite the faith-in-humanity killer.

According to some models who have worked with him, Richardson is a creep who coerces young women into posing naked and performing sexual favors -- on and off camera -- during photo shoots. Rie Rasmussen, who recently upbraided him at a Paris fashion event, told Page Six,

He takes girls who are young, manipulates them to take their clothes off and takes pictures of them they will be ashamed of. They are too afraid to say no because their agency booked them on the job and are too young to stand up for themselves.

His 'look' is girls who appear underage, abused, look like heroin addicts ... I don't understand how anyone works with him.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/17/terry_richardson/feed/ 36 Female athletes can’t win for winning http://www.salon.com/2010/03/16/uconn_women/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/16/uconn_women/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/16/uconn_women This season, the University of Connecticut women's basketball team has won 72 games in a row -- breaking its own record, garnering excited new Huskies fans and national media attention. Van Chancellor, a former WNBA coach and current coach of Louisiana State's women's team told the New York Times it's "one of the greatest things ever to happen to women's basketball." Frank Deford recently said the team "may well be the most overwhelming power ever to dominate any major sport." This sounds like a happy story, right?

It depends on who you ask. Jeré Longman at The Times writes that the team's success has inspired a backlash: Instead of being praised for their talent and hard work,  "the UConn women are criticized for winning too often, by too many points." As I understand it, people are arguing that the Huskies' accomplishment is not, in fact, good news for the sport, because if one team is winning that much, others ostensibly at the same level must be terrible -- and once you believe that, you can circle back around and conclude that the UConn team isn't really as good as it seems. Ergo, the Huskies' terrific run actually proves that women are bad at basketball -- just like we've been telling you silly ladies all along!

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/16/uconn_women/feed/ 28 Hey, Gabourey Sidibe: Hate yourself yet? http://www.salon.com/2010/03/15/gabourey_sidibe_future/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/15/gabourey_sidibe_future/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:10:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/15/gabourey_sidibe_future Gabourey Sidibe is obviously unhealthy and needs to lose weight if she wants to have a successful career. There, I said it!

No, I don't really believe a word of that. But apparently, anyone who says it this week automatically becomes newsworthy, and what the hell, I could use some buzz to help sell my next book. Sorry, Gabs, you know I love you -- let's just keep that between us for the moment, though, OK?

The latest person to successfully garner attention for concern-trolling the Oscar-nominated actress is the CEO of AcaiSupply.com, who made TMZ, among other outlets, by offering Ms. Gabby a one-year supply of weight-loss pills "in return for her glowing testimonial after she sheds her unwanted pounds." (I'm not sure if this company is one of the ones Better Business Bureau spokesperson Steve Cox was referring to when he said, "they lure customers in with celebrity endorsements and free trial offers, and then lock them in by making it extremely difficult to cancel the automatic delivery of more acai products every month." But if you like, I'll wait while you go to the Acai Supply site and see how long it takes you to find a working link to the news that after paying shipping and handling for your free trial, "You will be charged $119.93 in 14 days for our Free Refill Program unless cancelled.")

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/15/gabourey_sidibe_future/feed/ 82 “Jihad Jane”: One more argument against profiling http://www.salon.com/2010/03/13/jihad_jane_profiling/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/13/jihad_jane_profiling/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:13:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/12/jihad_jane_profiling Anyone who's paid attention to analysis of racial profiling from sources other than right-wing radio talk show hosts has probably gathered by now that it does not work so well. Kim Zetter and Patrick Smith have written about it for Salon, and Malcolm Gladwell famously compared it to (also misguided) legislation banning particular dog breeds. It unfairly targets innocent people, it's been shown to produce fewer accurate identifications of criminals than not profiling, it wastes resources and of course, it leaves out every baddie who doesn't fit the profile.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/13/jihad_jane_profiling/feed/ 29 A boob gag that actually works http://www.salon.com/2010/03/12/forehead_tittaes/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/12/forehead_tittaes/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:13:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/12/forehead_tittaes It takes a lot, in 2010, to come up with a "My eyes are up here, dude" joke that actually feels fresh. But this spoof ad for "Forehead Tittaes," starring Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard, actually pulls it off. The "scientific" claims are spot on ("Lab tests prove that Forehead Tittaes actually redirect the male gaze from the chest to the general area of the brain"), William Fichtner's silent turn as a lecherous boss is delightful, and Lesley Ann Warren's total commitment to the gag she got stuck with is a sight to behold. Enjoy.

 

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/12/forehead_tittaes/feed/ 45 How lesbians “ruined” prom http://www.salon.com/2010/03/11/prom_canceled/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/11/prom_canceled/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:45:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/11/prom_canceled It seems homophobic institutions are trying out a new strategy for dealing with the pressure to treat gay people like full human beings: If they can't legally discriminate, they'll punish everyone. First, the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington decided to stop offering all spouses of employees health coverage, since some of those spouses could now be the same gender as their partners. And now, a Mississippi school board has decided to cancel the prom at Itawamba Agricultural High School, rather than allow 18-year-old senior Constance McMillen to attend with her girlfriend. One more and it'll be a trend!

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/11/prom_canceled/feed/ 97 Adorable alert: Kid’s first lesson in gay marriage http://www.salon.com/2010/03/11/husbands_and_husbands/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/11/husbands_and_husbands/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:12:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/11/husbands_and_husbands Everyone who's ever fretted about how to talk to a child about gay marriage -- as though the basic concept is somehow infinitely more difficult to understand than straight marriage -- should be required to watch this video, in which little dude Calen processes the realization that his uncles are "husband and husband." In under a minute, Calen goes from, "What? Huh?" to "Ohhhhh" to "OK, bored with this now." I don't even want to spoil it by quoting him directly (if you can't watch or hear it, there's a transcript at AMERICAblog), so I'll just say it is compelling evidence that kids' fragile little minds can handle the concept just fine -- and watching them get it might just be the cutest thing you've ever seen.

 

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/11/husbands_and_husbands/feed/ 37 Disney doesn’t want princess cooties http://www.salon.com/2010/03/10/disney_princess/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/10/disney_princess/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:20:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/10/disney_princess Here's a good news/bad news item for those of us who have concerns about Disney princesses turning little girls into bedazzled pod people: Since its last animated film, "The Princess and the Frog," got a lackluster reception, the company has decided to back away from the P-word. Says the L.A. Times, "[E]xecutives at the Burbank studio believe they know why the acclaimed movie came up short at the box office. Brace yourself: Boys didn't want to see a movie with 'princess' in the title."

But why would you stop at, say, not making another movie with 'princess' in the title, when you could do even more to protect your business from the damning effects of girl cooties? There's more!  "Concluding that it had too many animated girl flicks in its lineup, Disney has shelved its long-gestating project 'The Snow Queen,' based on the Hans Christian Andersen story." And just to be on the safe side, the studio has also "renamed its next animated film with the girl-centric name 'Rapunzel' to the less gender-specific 'Tangled'" and beefed up the male lead.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/10/disney_princess/feed/ 31 Stopping rape with smut http://www.salon.com/2010/03/09/porn_debate/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/09/porn_debate/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:45:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/09/porn_debate Let me get this out there right upfront: I do not want to take your porn away. I am against the exploitation and objectification of women, but I am also against censorship and Puritanical bullshit, and porn tangles all of those issues up in such a way as to make me feel uncharacteristically dispassionate about the whole mess. My official position on porn: Whatever.

So if I saw a compelling argument that porn is good for society, I would probably not go out of my way to nitpick it. But Milton Diamond's article at the Scientist, in which he discusses data that shows more porn is correlated with lower sexual assault rates, is not that argument. "[I]n every region investigated," he writes, "researchers have found that as pornography has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased ... Surprisingly few studies have linked the availability of porn in any society with antisocial behaviors or sex crimes. Among those studies none have found a causal relationship and very few have even found one positive correlation."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/09/porn_debate/feed/ 76 Grief goes viral http://www.salon.com/2010/03/08/grief_goes_viral/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/08/grief_goes_viral/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:09:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/08/grief_goes_viral Between the Internet and reality television, it can seem like there's no such thing as a private -- or even family- and friends-only -- moment anymore. Wedding ceremonies, adorable baby behavior and sibling squabbles go viral, women tweet what's going on with their uteruses, amateur porn abounds and minor celebrity sex tapes are so ubiquitous they're barely news anymore. But at least one category of common human experiences still goes on largely behind closed doors: Dying and grief.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/08/grief_goes_viral/feed/ 4 In defense of Mo’Nique’s Oscar speech http://www.salon.com/2010/03/08/monique_oscar_speech/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/08/monique_oscar_speech/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:09:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/08/monique_oscar_speech Unlike Salon TV critic Heather Havrilesky, I cheered when Mo'Nique began her acceptance speech for the best supporting actress Oscar with, "I would like to thank the Academy for showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics." I don't think she meant to slight her fellow nominees, nor do I think they took it that way -- Vera Farmiga and Maggie Gyllenhaal were two of the first on their feet, looking delighted, as Mo'Nique took the stage. I think that for the most part, Mo'Nique only meant to acknowledge a couple of plain facts: 1) Just about everyone known for making accurate Oscar predictions figured she was a lock, and 2) The only reason anyone thought she might not be was that she refused to campaign for it. Few thought she had any real competition in the category -- which has much more to do with the lack of strong roles for women than with Gyllenhaal, Farmiga, Anna Kendrick or Penelope Cruz being seen as inferior talents -- but many faulted Mo'Nique for not playing the game better and wondered if Academy voters would punish her for her lack of schmoozing and self-promotion.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/08/monique_oscar_speech/feed/ 47 Three reasons to love “The Runaways” http://www.salon.com/2010/03/05/runaways_trailer/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/05/runaways_trailer/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:15:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/05/runaways_trailer "The full-length trailer for 'The Runaways' finally came out last night," writes Lindsay Robertson at Vulture, "after an abysmal teaser kicked around Twilight fan sites for months." Though the new one's a step up, Robertson's none too impressed with the production values or the derivative band origin story (Andrew O'Hehir agreed that it's "a straightforward rock 'n' roll biopic" when he reviewed it for Salon after Sundance, though he doesn't think that's necessarily a bad thing) or with... pretty much anything else about it. And judging from the trailer (below), I can't say she's completely off the mark.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/03/05/runaways_trailer/feed/ 0 Carla Bruni’s nipples: Discuss http://www.salon.com/2010/03/05/carla_bruni_braless/ http://www.salon.com/2010/03/05/carla_bruni_braless/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:06:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2010/03/05/carla_bruni_braless French first lady Carla Bruni's body has long been a subject of interest to many, but the Times of London has taken scrutiny of the former model's rack to a whole new level. Based on photos of Bruni in a form-fitting but full-coverage Roland Mouret gown at a state dinner on Tuesday night, Times writers Hannah Betts and Sarah Vine have A) determined that she is not wearing a bra and B) offered a helpful point-counterpoint on whether she should be slut-shamed for it.

Before I get into their arguments, I'd like to state for the record that unless that dress is totally backless, I'm not convinced Bruni isn't wearing a bra. Yes, in at least one shot, you can see her nipples, hence controversy -- but that only tells us conclusively that she is not wearing a very thick bra. In fact, I would argue that if you quit staring at her nips and look up, you can see the outline of some kind of straps; perhaps it's only a slip, but it's something that in my opinion renders the whole argument moot. (I know, common sense and journalistic integrity ought to render the whole argument moot, but that ship has sailed.) In any case, she's well covered and certainly not screamingly unsupported; if they'd cranked the heat a couple of degrees higher, there would be no issue here.

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