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23

Feb

Anne Spurzem = Hilly Holbrook. Just sayin'.

A hot racist mess masquerading as a Smith College alum who as the President of her local Smith College Club, INTERVIEWS POTENTIAL STUDENTS, had the sheer gall of whining to the college paper about how her alma mater isn’t white enough.

There are some PHENOMENAL responses to her ridunculous letter including one by a Lola W:

Dear Anne Spurzem,

In the Sophia Smith Archives, one can find a letter written to President Neilson by a well-heeled society woman and Smith alumna. In it she complained about the rising number of Jewish women who were being admitted to Smith in part because they were all so unattractive and all looked exactly the same. 

President Neilson, in his infinite wisdom replied (to paraphrase): I’m sorry that your Smith education failed you so terribly.

I am not the President of Smith, but to you, my fellow alumna, I offer you a similar sentiment.

That said, I was totally reminded of a character from this Oscar-nominated film:

To read the lovely letter by Sparky McSpurzem, check it out here. While there, be sure to read the eloquent responses by some of Smith’s finest, not to mention those below:

smithiescomplaints:

Anne Spurzem, class of 1984, majored in economics, attended the MacDuffie School for Girls. She attended Duke University after Smith, where she got her MBA in marketing, before moving to Greenwich, Connecticut, the 2006 American city with the highest median income, where I am sure there are no…

14

Sep

Nielsen Knows.

If you’re a fan of new media, statistics, infographics, marketing or the like… you’re in luck!

Nielsen came out with their latest report on the state of social media today; and conveniently, have made this report easily accessible via the following link: http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/social/

If you’re not the reading type, (what are you doing here? oh right, I mostly post pictures. ha. oh. sigh.)… SocialFresh’s Jason Keith did a quick synopsis of the findings which you can see below. 

I’d definitely recommend a gander, if not for the interesting information, then for the pretty pictures!

via @JasonKeath & @socialfresh

The smart folks over at Nielsen media research sent me some interesting numbers (yes the folks that tell us how many people are watching Jersey Shore). Their recent media report has a whole section on social media with some very telling insights. Here are a few that stood out to me: 

  • Social media and blogs continue to dominate our online time as consumers, on our computers AND phones
  • Americans spend more time on Facebook than any other site
  • Women watch more videos, men watch longer videos
  • 70% of social network users shop online
  • 53% of social network users follow brands
  • Tumblr is a new emerging social network, tripling it’s audience this year
  • Social network users are more likely than other online consumers to be found at political rallies, sporting events, and at the gym


I would also give close attention to Slide 11 which talks about how active social media users are also influential offline. 

View the whole report here and dive into some awesome research. 

01

Sep

I’m too pretty to do homework…

Disassssster. 

via The Village Voice

12

Aug

"Equalism."

Jezebel has an interesting piece on the take of the word ‘feminism.’ 

As one reader put it:

“Feminism” as a term is notoriously jaded and has a weird set of characteristics that go along with it; i.e.-feminists must be men hating, bra burning, no shaving feminazis.

This topic opened up to the masses, produced some seriously entertaining alternatives. One of my favorites being the following:

My husband often points out that while he is a feminist in thinking, he hates the word itself as he feels it excludes men. He has often called himself an “Equalitarian” when pressed, but this lacks Beyonce-style panache, so I suggest “equaluscious.”

Check out the link above for the final take and the winner of ‘em all… 

Feminism? Equaluscious? Equalism? What’s your preference?


05

Jul

Girls deserve to be the heroes of their own stories. We aren’t just damsels in distress or funny sidekicks or beautiful girlfriends. Sure we can be those things, and we sometimes are. But if that’s all we are shown as, well, then that’s doing a disservice to everyone. Boys, girls, everyone. Because in the real world, women are the heroes of their own stories every single day.
— Dorothy Snarker

16

Jun

The shorthand of it is that women run for office to do something, and men run for office to be somebody.

14

Jun

What To Wear... When You're a Female Athlete

What do a Jewish girl, a Muslim girl, and the Badminton World Federation have in common? 

All are under contentious debate as to their athletic attire.