Women Writers: Late-Night’s Real Problem
Comedy writers — male and female — dish about the strange, men-only world of late-night TV. By Lynn Harris for Salon.
issue: Economic Justice
Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants
James Chartrand of Men with Pens reveals that he’s a she and explains why she adopted a male pen name.
NOW Congratulates Massachusetts Primary Winner Martha Coakley, Looks Forward to Feminist Candidate Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling in January
The National Organization for Women congratulates Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley for her overwhelming victory in the Democratic primary in the special election to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat. If Coakley prevails as expected in the Jan. 19 general election, she will be the first woman senator from the state of Massachusetts, and she will double to two the number of women in the state’s current 12-member congressional delegation. The NOW Political Action Committee proudly endorsed Coakley in her run.
Civil Marriage v. Civil Unions
What is marriage? What is a civil union?
Letterman and Me
One of the few women ever to write for Late Night with David Letterman, the author (Nell Scovell, a longtime Vanity Fair contributor) remembers a hostile, sexually charged atmosphere. What’s to be done? Start by breaking late night’s all-male gag order.