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The Schmooze Wonder Why The Emmys Weren’t Funny? Look At The List Of Writers.
The 70th Annual Emmy Awards, hosted by Colin Jost and Michael Che, exceeded all expectations: They were even more egregiously unfunny than detractors could possibly have imagined. Haters of bloated award shows, haters of the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update hosts, and people angry to be awake late on a Monday united in disparaging the…
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The Schmooze Netflix’s ‘Sierra Burgess’ Is A Backwards Take On Feminism With No Concept of Consent
“Sierra Burgess is a Loser” is the type of movie that fills us with a longing for simpler times when we weren’t condemned to follow a clichéd underdog of a protagonist as she embarks on an emotional awakening that leads her to discover herself, fall in love, and skip into the sunset. “Jaws,” where you…
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The Schmooze Lena Dunham Apologizes For…Accidentally Creating ‘Fat Isn’t Beautiful’ Sweatshirts
32-year-old auteur Lena Dunham is one of the most flexible people in the world — her foot is almost always in her mouth. On Wednesday, Dunham lived up to the name of the Twitter parody account “Lena Dunham Apologizes,” apologizing for collaborating on a fashion line that includes sweatshirts boasting slogans like, “Being fat is…
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Life America’s Crisis Pregnancy Centers Are Crimes Against Women
In New York, if you are a woman seeking an abortion, you might visit the nearest clinic — but be careful not to walk into the other “clinic” in the same building, across the street, or down the block. Instead of finding an abortion clinic, you might accidentally end up at a crisis pregnancy center. There, you may be greeted by staff members…
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The Schmooze Chanel Debuts Makeup For Men – ‘Beauty Is Beyond Gender’
Men: Can they have it all? It’s an eternal question, one that’s been addressed in countless romantic comedies, think pieces, and advertisements for home cleaning agents: Can men skip breezily through life, excelling at home and in their careers without compromising looking good? Chanel, the storied fashion house, says yes. The French luxury goods company,…
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The Schmooze Millennial Women Don’t Like Ivanka. Will That Matter?
The more things change, the more they stay the same? A comprehensive new study done by CBS News and Refinery29 asked the tiresome but necessary question: What Do Women Want? Specifically, it surveyed 2,093 American adult women about their political opinions, with a focus on millennials — 18-35-year-olds. 70% of millennial women said things in…
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The Schmooze Lena Dunham Poses Nude For Hysterectomy Anniversary
The “nine month” marker usually refers to the final stretch in a woman’s pregnancy. For those who will never carry a baby in their womb, the time period can symbolize another bodily reminder entirely. In a moving Instagram post, “Girls” producer, Lena Dunham, opens up about her hysterectomy (the removal of her uterus). The post,…
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The Schmooze Meghan Markle Was 11 When She And Gloria Allred Became Feminist Collaborators
All this time, rising royal Meghan Markle and hardboiled feminist lawyer Gloria Allred have been in cahoots! Markle’s ascent to British nobility is no less than a deep-state plot to install hardened feminists in positions of power with their ruthless lawyers standing by. Well, not so fast. The truth is still cool though. In 1992,…
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