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• Apparently We Were Supposed to Be Upset By This Poster

  Remember this poster—a recreation of a Joan Baez poster from the 60's—we posted yesterday? Well, we thought it was all in good fun, but apparently it's pissed off quite a few female bloggers, including some of our old friends. Read More... Posted Oct 24 2008, 10:51 AM by Emily Farris with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: scanner, politics, feminism, Barack Obama, posters, sarah hepola, salon, brooklyn, offensive, scanner sarah, feminists, joan baez, yes girls, the sixties, 1960's, yes men, rebecca traistor, broadsheet, skinny jeans

• Don't F*ck With People From Detroit

  Alex Zola is from Detroit. When he first moved to New York City twenty years ago, his father gave him some advice: "If someone mugs you, give them everything they want.  Everything.  Offer your shoes as well.  That should make them happy."  The unsaid piece of advice he decided not to add was: "If someone fucks with you, tell 'em, 'Don't fuck with me, I'm from Detroit..." Read More... Posted Sep 12 2008, 12:32 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: New York City, violence, salon, funny, michigan, money, detroit, muggers, fight, fathers

• Thomas Beatie, Transgender Dad, Works the Media Like a Full-Time Job

  As you may have heard, Thomas Beatie, the pregnant man, gave birth to a girl on Sunday June 29th. So has this whole pregnant man story been a boon for transgender rights? Thomas Rogers at Salon says, "eh, proabably not." Why did Beatie become the focus of so much attention? Read More... Posted Jul 07 2008, 10:39 AM by Nicole Pasulka with | with no comments Filed under: transgender, oprah winfrey, salon, thomas beatie

• "Hey there sex E girl" Text Message Haikus for Sarah Hepola

  We told you a while back about former Scanner bad girl and fine-ass lady we'd love to put a baby in Sarah Hepola's Salon.com article on the artless art of the booty text (or Sext Message, as we call it). All you skanky cell-phone carrying kids out there know, there's an aesthetic to the sext. Read More... Posted Jun 24 2008, 03:12 PM by Nicole Pasulka with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: sarah hepola, salon, text messaging, sext message

• Get Your Same-Sex Love and Marriage On

  We've already warmed your stony little hearts with the story of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, octagenarians who were married in Cali yesterday.   But getting your gay on isn’t as easy for some. Ann Bauer in Salon writes about how she fell for a woman named Gisele after divorcing her husband of 20 years. Turns out falling for someone doesn’t necessarily include falling into bed. Read More... Posted Jun 17 2008, 02:25 PM by Nicole Pasulka with | with no comments Filed under: lesbian, gay marriage, salon, lesbianism, lesbian fantasies

• Speaking of Sex and Video Games...

  Is your husband or boyfriend addicted to video games? Is this putting a strain on your love life? The cleanliness of your home? The well being of your children? Would you like to shove his controller where the sun don't shine and then kick it, hard, just to make sure it's going to stay up there for a while? Wait, wait! There's one last hope. No, no. We're not talking about some new sex video game. (Though that could be fun as long as real sex was somehow involved), we're talking about Rock Band, and how it saved one woman's marriage. Read More... Posted May 28 2008, 05:03 PM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: marriage, video games, salon, rock band

• Sloppy Spitzer Seconds, Part Two: Where We Are Pleasantly Surprised

  We're back, and since we got all the sleazy stuff out of the way earlier this morning, we're looking at whether the media's doing any better treating the Spitzer Scandal like we're all adults. And we gotta say: if this were the SAT's, we'd say they scored in, like, the 85th percentile. Let's have a look. Read More... Posted Mar 13 2008, 09:00 AM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: new york times, new york magazine, prostitution, salon, page six, slate, new york post, Eliot Spitzer, Gothamist, Ashley Dupre, Glenn Greenwald

• Will the Spitzer Scandal Change the Way We Think About Prostitution?

  Of course it won't. (What, you want us to blow smoke up your ass? 'Cause that'll run you $200 an hour.) But don't worry - there are still people out there taking a serious look at the issue of prostitution. Right? Read More... Posted Mar 12 2008, 08:00 AM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: prostitution, heidi fleiss, salon, nightline, npr, Eliot Spitzer, Terry Moran, mainstream media, Salon Machinist

• McLovin' Isn't All That Into Getting Freaky With You

  As if the New York Times wasn't taking enough flak for its terrible reporting of the McCain sex ring, now their readers are LOL'ing at the gossip rag's reporting of a new study that seems to indicate all those Judd Aptow-Seth Rogan movies are not quite accurate depictions of teenage sex lives: A new report in The Journal of Adolescence this month suggests that when it comes to sex, girls and dating, boys are more complex than we typically give them credit for. While hormonal urges are no doubt an important part of a teenage boy’s life, they aren’t necessarily the defining trait influencing a boy’s relationships with girls. Read More... Posted Feb 26 2008, 09:00 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: new york times, gawker, teenage wasteland, Batman, james franco, teen pregnancy, sex, salon, Juno, ellen page, seth rogan, superbad, mclovin, freaks and geeks

• Monday Morning Surprise, In Which We Open Up Our Salon Newsletter and Find Scanner Sarah's Boobs

  We saw boobs come across our inbox and immediately knew we had to write about this article at the top of today's Salon Newsletter. Then we looked at the byline: Scanner Salon Sarah. Now, we've never actually met Salon Sarah ("we" being Scanner Emily — apparently she and Scanner Bryan go way back) or her boobs, and we can't say we feel her pain (having been blessed or cursed with the opposite problem) but we really liked the article and we're glad she finally found some bras that fit. Now if she can just tell us where to find jeans that stay up when we sit down, we'll be all set.  Posted Dec 10 2007, 11:34 AM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: boobs, scanner bryan, sarah hepola, salon, jobs, scanner emily