Jenny Singer is a freelance writer with pieces in Vox, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Teen Vogue, and more. She was previously a staff writer at Glamour and the Forward, and she’s currently getting an MFA in nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa.
Jenny Singer
By Jenny Singer
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The Schmooze ‘Insatiable’ Is Only As Fat-Shaming As The Rest Of TV
The upcoming Netflix series “Insatiable” follows a teenage girl who is bullied for her weight until, having been punched in the jaw and forced to keep it wired shut over the summer, she loses weight, gains social capital, and decides to exact revenge on her bullies. A young white woman getting revenge? Very 2018. Very…
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The Schmooze Gal Gadot: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Is Not A Sequel
Why the 1980s? How is Steve Trevor still alive? And what else can we expect from “Wonder Woman: 1984’? Co-stars Gal Gadot and Chris Pine, as well as “Wonder Woman” director Patti Jenkins, spoke at Comic Con over the weekend about the much-anticipated addition to the Warner Bros “Wonder Woman” story, “Wonder Woman: 1984,” which…
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The Schmooze ‘Who Is America’ Gets GOP Lawmaker To Strip, Scream N-Word
The question Sacha Baron Cohen has posed to the nation — Who is America? — was answered in more lurid detail on Sunday night in the second episode of his shocking Showtime project. Several segments vied for the most nauseating of the night, but the winner was one featuring Georgia state representative Jason Spencer and…
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Culture Thou Shalt Not Date A Trump Supporter (Or Lie With One)
It all started, as it so often does for me, with the cutest dog I had ever seen. We were playing with the puppy in his family’s sprawling uptown apartment, sipping something expensive that had been decanted into a crystal bottle. Then we were kissing in an armchair. Then he was leading me to his…
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The Schmooze We’re Sorry, But Ariana Grande And Troye Sivan’s ‘Dance To This’ Is A Bummer
Two of the biggest names in pop music, Troye Sivan and Ariana Grande, collaborated on the song “Dance To This,” which dropped its long-awaited music video on Thursday. Sivan, the towheaded tween-ish Jew who came up as a singer on YouTube, and Grande, a toddler-ish vixen mired in ethnic ambiguity who came up as a…
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The Schmooze ‘The American People Won’t Fall For Ivanka’s Faux Feminism’
“Ivanka Trump Is A Hypocrite” announced the Democratic National Committee on Thursday. In a surprisingly relentless takedown of the first daughter and presidential advisor, the DNC bashed Ivanka Trump’s participation in the administration’s “Hire Americans” campaign, given the practices of her own fashion line. Trump’s products, wrote Elizabeth Renda, a spokeswoman for the Democrats, are…
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The Schmooze ‘I Thought The B— Was White’: Roseanne Defends Valerie Jarrett Slur In Video
Roseanne Barr released a video on her personal YouTube page on Thursday night that shows her confused, semi-incoherent, and screaming charged racial comments. None of this is new. Still, there’s something chilling about the video — Barr is disoriented, but the people behind the camera seem to know exactly what they’re doing. The profanity-laced video…
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The Schmooze Mark Zuckerberg Secretly Called To Congratulate Trump After The Election
If it’s true that the truth will out, then it will out very, very slowly. A new report from Buzzfeed News on Thursday found that Facebook creator and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a secret phone call to Donald Trump to congratulate him after he won the 2016 presidential election. Buzzfeed spoke to three people who…
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