Friday Fun Thread: Dream Jobs...

It’s layoff season in my corner of the world, and while things are good where I work, the phone rings at least once a day with someone wanting to gossip/groan/quail about impending doom. A lot of us talk, semi-seriously, about what we’d do as a Plan B if this business doesn’t work out. Yesterday...

Unga Bunga! White Sale Gooood!...

It was JUST LIKE THIS. Via Hysterical Bertha @ Flickr. If there were such a thing as a big WHOOPWHOOPWHOOP siren that would go off when people started talking shite, I have go doubt that the phrase “in cave man times” would trigger klaxons everywhere. The article Shopping styles of men and...

A Room of One’s Own: Part One...

Last week the New York Times ran a great article about the remaining few women’s residences in New York City. Women’s residences were founded in the early 20th century as a way for single, working women to have a safe place to live. Yes, there was a healthy streak of morality policing at...

Retro Pleasures: Mr. Darcy, Colonel Bran...

Harpy Seminar, Victorian style! So yesterday afternoon there was quite a lively discussion amongst some of the Harpies about our favorite men from ye olde literature, inspired by an article in the Telegraph that Pilgrim Soul sent us.  Entitled “Romantic Heroes: Here’s to You, Mr. Rochester,”...

Thank You for Being a Friend...

Via andreakw @ Flickr.Female friendships have been getting a lot of media attention in the past couple weeks. To be specific, people are saying that friendships between women are superficial at best and toxic at worst. Women cannot be more than frenemies because we are competitive, backstabbing underminers...

Plus ça change…...

Debs from 1937, unimpressed with this "advice." Via stonnington history centre @ Flickr A couple weeks ago, a friend of mine in town for the summer showed me an antique book he had found on the shelves of the apartment he was house-sitting:  Letters to a Debutante, an advice book for young...

Black Woman Appointed Surgeon General...

In all the hubbub surrounding Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings, I nearly forgot that Obama would be appointing a new Surgeon General today. The announcement has just been made that Dr. Regina Benjamin, a family practice physician and the president of the Alabama Medical Association, will be the...

The Best Part of Wakin’ Up...

… is Supreme Court nominee Hilda Sonia Sotomayor in my cup. (I obviously have not yet had “my cup” yet. Oy. Thanks for the correction, christina.) BOO.  YAH.  Heckuva way to start the week, I’ve got to say.  Granted, this is just the promise of the nomination, and we still...

I’m Going to be One of Those Women...

Awaiting the bonfire. Via piperkinsvater @ Flickr.…about whom other people mutter, “Put a bra on!” Maybe I already am one of those women. BeckySharper has had it with padded bras; I’ve had it with all bras. I wear a bra to work every day and begrudgingly slip one on if I’m...

Retro Pleasures: Horseback Riding...

Via poodlephile_lucy @ Flickr. When I was a tween, I was seriously into horses. Maybe it was all the fairytales with princesses and their horses. Or Black Beauty or Misty of Chincoteague. Maybe I read too many historical novels where queens and ladies galloped about on their faithful steeds.  I didn’t...

School’s In Session: Learning Elit...

This is a guest post by Harpy friend jessica gold haralson, who offered us an exclusive look at the new guide to etiquette we’ve all been awaiting from soon-to-be-ex-Countess LuAnn de Lesseps. As we all know, television provides a dearth of Harpy-approved feminist entertainment, so most of us...

You Can Take Away My Homemade Pie When Y...

MMMM....PIE. Actual church supper pies via deadrichmond @ Flickr. Today’s Wall Street Journal brings us an alarming article about a new scourge of government-sponsored, anti-woman repression.   The oppressed? Pennsylvania church ladies!   The Journal sets the scene: On the first Friday of...