Over on the F-Word there's a great interview with graduate student Kristin 'Lou' Herout. Kristin appealled for plus-size volunteers, then re-shot a series of well-known glossy adverts using the larger models. The results are, well, striking...
Why are women so horrid about Madonna now she's 50? Aida Edemariam says: she's 50 for god's sake! Or something along those lines. Once-wonderful Camille Paglia thought Mads was once wonderful, too. Interesting article.
Simon Barnes in The Times sees enjoying the pole-vault as some kind of complicated approximation of feminism (and it's rather a sweet love letter in its own right) but is anyone else just loving Yelena's stomach in the picture on that page?
