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After some deliberation, we have decided to fold DoubleX back into Slate.
The site will now become its own section, with our XX Factor blog,
articles, and special projects already in the works. Our aim is to
create a more intimate version of the community we have built, with
many of the same voices and passions ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX).
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Or so argues Grady Hendrix in Slate today. Hendrix hates emo-boy vampires, with their all-swoon, no-suck brand of human relations. Latoya Peterson argued here in Double X that Twilight and True Blood are bad for women because they're all about pigeonholing female characters into a virgin/slut binary ... (Read more in Double X.)
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Perfect kids are more likely to murder you in your sleep. At least,
that's according to horror flicks that fall into the "evil kid genre,"
inaugurated by 1956's The Bad Seed. Other warning signs: ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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Over at Slate, Johann Hari has a fascinating essay on The East, the West, and Sex, the "strange new book"—Hari's words—by journalist Richard Bernstein, which details the centuries-old history of Western men seeking out a little strange in the East ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
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Like Hanna, I accept Ann Friedman's welcome challenge. Yes, please! We want to influence the national conversation,
and send our writers and editors out to go forth and prosper in plenty
of other pastures. We're not interested in roping ourselves off into a
pink ghetto. I understand the fear that other people will do the roping
off for us. When we first started talking about the idea of a separate
site early last summer, several of the veteran women of Slate
said, hey, we've spent years getting strong women's voices into the
magazine. We've succeeded. Now you're taking us out and putting us
somewhere else? The answer we all settled on, in the end, was... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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We're pleased to announce that Jessica Grose is coming on board as the managing editor of Double X, Slate's new women's web magazine launching in the spring. Jessica comes to us from Jezebel, and before her stint there, Spin. Jessica, welcome—we're very glad to have you.
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