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Required Reading: November 26

1. Hi! Today is Required Reading: Sex Edition. Sort of. This is either interesting or obnoxious (either is fine, really): Today’s issue of EYE WEEKLY features a Love and Sex column written by me about the blow-job economy (it’s really called “Should I Stay or Should I Blow?” but that is too overt for my randomly prudey tastes). Read it here. Then read what David Topping at Torontoist has to say about it, and me. Then read what my BFF has to say about that over Gchat.

Kate's BFF: That Torontoist thing is straight-up hateful!

Kate: Yeah

Kate’s BFF: It's really sleazily written, too. For all the myopia and solipsism and laziness he's accusing you of, his representation of your work is totally dishonest and out of context, AND it betrays dude's own narrow-minded and self-serving interest in cutting you down.

Kate:  Yeah

Obviously, my friend cares more about this sort of thing than I do (cute, right?). I have no particular beef with Topping or Torontoist but all these things taken together makes a certain point. About circle jerks. Which is topically appropriate, right?

2. Next up: semi-related post by The 4-Hour Work Week author Tim Ferriss writing about why pissing people off is a good idea.

3. It’s been a little while since Roman Polanski was a hot topic (such is our accelerated news cycle) but if you have a fresh latte and 15 minutes, do read this piece from the London Review of Books about how rape functions, especially between young, young women and older men.

4. Watched The Girlfriend Experience last night (I thought I’d rented it in the summer, but it turns out there is an unrelated, terrible movie that is also called The Girlfriend Experience, so make sure a sex-doll-mouthed Sasha Grey is on the cover of the DVD box before you lay down five dollars). Spent most of it ruminating on Grey’s face, which is the most revealing part of her in the movie. It’s so bitchy and lewd and peaceful all at once. Of course men want to stick things in it. Here is a fabulous interview with her.

5. This blog, told in the voice of a baby named Izzy, looks like a Francesca Lia Block book grew up and came to life. Cute baby, stylish mom, hot biker dad, lots of New Orleans steam and family life. Sold!

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