The ‘scarlet woman’ cliche wheeled out for Carrie Symonds makes me vomit | Hadley Freeman

There are many more objectionable things about Boris Johnson than his alleged affair. But the media focus on this ‘feisty’, ‘party-loving’ woman is relentlessThere is a well-established and strictly obeyed format for writing about a women who is alleged to have had an affair with a powerful man, one that has barely been updated from the John F Kennedy era. They must be portrayed as predatory but simultaneously idiotic; actions and attributes that would seem in most other circumstances innocent – has a job, has friends – become deeply suspect; photos from her past – ideally on holiday, even more ideally at fancy dress parties – are published. The only part of this schtick that has been updated since the mid-1960s is that instead of tricking the woman’s friends and family into giving them the photos, newspapers now scrape them off her social media, so that the photo accreditation “from Facebook” has become as much of a feature of these stories as references to the woman’s blond hair. Related: Boris Johnson will keep 'throwing rocks' at PM's Brexit plan, allies say Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2018-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]

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A woman discovers her unusual origin — and 35 siblings

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Pamela Paul criticized for anti-trans opinion about the word 'woman'

After the former book editor of the New York Times published an Op-Ed decrying trans-inclusive language, the online literary community spoke out. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2022-07-07 19:21:33 UTC ]
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Audiobook Publisher RBmedia Makes Two Purchases

Audiobook publisher RBmedia has acquired the audiobook business of Upfront Books and the French company Éditions Thélème. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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In ‘Florida Woman,’ wild animals aren’t as unpredictable as the humans

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[ The Washington Post | 2022-07-05 13:17:51 UTC ]
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Toronto Comic Arts Festival Makes In-Person Return

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Amazon promises to fix Comixology after making the service nearly unusable

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[ Engadget | 2022-06-19 19:56:15 UTC ]
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What Makes a Great Audiobook?

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[ Book Riot | 2022-06-17 10:36:00 UTC ]
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Can we please make Banned Book Fairs the hot new nationwide trend?

As we’ve noted over and over again, the hottest new book trend sweeping the country is to ban them and/or burn them if they don’t align with your weird, paleoconservative, theocratic prejudices. Not great! But as ever is the case with this strange nation, when one group of Americans starts doing... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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James Patterson Once Spotted A Woman Stealing One Of His Books

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Frankfurter Buchmesse: ‘Making Democratic Values Visible’

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[ Publishing Perspectives | 2022-06-07 18:14:17 UTC ]
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1984 is Banned in Belarus, Bookstore Owner Detained for Carrying It

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[ Book Riot | 2022-05-30 17:22:36 UTC ]
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A Portrait of an Angry Young Woman Set in Contemporary India

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[ Electric Literature | 2022-05-19 11:00:00 UTC ]
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George Pérez, Who Gave New Life to Wonder Woman, Dies at 67

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[ The New York Times | 2022-05-08 18:57:05 UTC ]
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A bookstore owner’s petition to make Harriet Tubman Day a federal holiday is almost at 8,000 signatures.

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[ Literrary Hub | 2022-05-05 16:26:12 UTC ]
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IAB NewFronts 2022—Amy Poehler gets a Twitch lesson and Snap makes a Cameo

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[ Electric Literature | 2022-05-03 11:00:00 UTC ]
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