The Spice Girls Performed Onstage Together and the Universe Didn't Implode [Olympics]

Aug 12, 2012 8:45 PM  

Well, the Olympics are over and now all that's standing between you and another bittersweet Labor Day weekend is "Shark Week," and maybe a few hurricane scares along the Gulf Coast. Since "Shark Week" will be the same thing every year until James Cameron finally send his submersible deep into the Mariana Trench to accidentally awaken Megalodon, there's really no reason into deluding yourself that summer isn't already over. At least you (maybe) watched the Spice Girls ride onto a giant stage in their own personalized Mini Coopers and remember a simpler time long ago when the end of summer merely meant returning to school and seeing all the little marks of maturity that summer left on your classmates.

See the Spice Girls' Gaudy Performance [Buzzfeed]

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Sunday Sign-Off: Say Goodbye to the Olympics with the Spice Girls [Video]

Aug 12, 2012 6:30 PM  

The Spice Girls have been reassembled like a singing, sort-of dancing Voltron, the better to help us all bring some closure to the Olympics.

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The Fierce Five: Just Your Average Teenage Girls With a Shit-Ton of Olympic Medals [Olympics]

Aug 9, 2012 11:50 AM  

All five members of the U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team were on The Today Show this morning where, among other things, the girls discussed their gold medals, McKayla Maroney's "not impressed" face, and what they expect when they return to in the United States (apart from a bajillion dollars worth of endorsement deals). Naturally, the segment included the predictable "we're just normal teenage girls" routine — but it's actually believable in this case, as the ladies tell stories of late night dance parties, meeting Kate Middleton, and receiving a video message from tween overlord Justin Bieber. On the other hand, most teenagers don't sacrifice most of their social life in order devote years of their lives to a singular goal, nor do most win big at the Olympics before their 18th birthdays.

We're all caught up in our love affair with the Fierce Five right now, but let's not discount our admiration as hype. These girls are incredible and our love is real.

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You Can Superimpose Your Little Girl's Face Onto a Disney Princess for a Mere $100 [Disney]

A few months ago, Disney Parks launched a nifty new feature as part of "Star Wars Weekends" that allowed guests to have their faces digitally captured and then transformed onto real life, three-dimensional Han Solo action figures "frozen" in carbonite and ready for purchase. Now, Disneyland is using the same technology to let girls "live out their princess dreams" by placing their adorable little faces on 7-inch Disney Princess figurines! So they'll never forget what they're supposed to turn into when they grow up: a pretty pretty princess in a pretty pretty ballgown, ready for a Happily Ever After that begins and ends with marriage, male approval, and a disconcertingly tiny waist.

"Carbon Freeze Me" was targeted towards adult Star Wars fans, but this endeavor is a little different. Only "princesses in waiting" ages 3-12 are allowed to choose between Ariel, Aurora, Belle, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White and Tiana. Hair, skin and eye color are customized, and a princess silver link necklace with colored gem charm is also included. That's big of them, considering that each seven-inch Princess figurine is $99.95 plus $15.95 shipping. Hey, no one said being a princess was cheap!

Maybe I'm overreacting to this "exciting interactive experience" because I was never a big Disney princess fan. I always preferred the villains, who had a whole lot more going on in terms of ambition and intellect. I was so obsessed with Maleficent as a four-year-old that I refused to answer to "Katie" for months, preferring to go by the name of the Sleeping Beauty antagonist instead. My preschool teachers told my parents that I was "experimenting with my bad side" in a safe way, but I think I was just more interested in her motivations than sleeping forever and marrying a boring dude. Why push girls into emulating princesses by literally putting their faces onto theirs? Buy your daughter/niece/cousin a Maleficent mask instead (I still have mine at home somewhere) or, you know, buy her a book.

D-Tech Me to Offer Disney Princess Figurines at World of Disney in Walt Disney World Resort for a Limited Time [Disney Parks Blog]

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If Women Want to Race Like Men, They Better Look Like Girls [Sports]

Thanks to a combination of Lady Gaga lyrics, deodorant strong enough for men but made just for us, and pole dancing classes, women are now more equal with men than ever. We're out-enrolling men in college, we're installing tampon machines in executive suite bathrooms, and we still enjoy a commanding lead in the overall "Who Has Made The Most Human Life Inside Their Bodies?" race. The gender gap is even narrowing in the arena of athletic achievement — if current trends continue, within the next century, female Olympians will be just as fast as their male counterparts. But as the gap narrows, women breaking barriers and challenging men will have to make sure they look like girls while doing it — or face a series of tests to make sure they're really, authentically ladies.

Since women were first allowed to compete in the Olympics in 1900, men have consistently been faster and stronger than their female counterparts. But, as The Atlantic charts, that gap has narrowed as women have had more opportunity to train, and as athletic participation among ladies has become more commonplace and less something to be avoided on the grounds that according to a popular school of thought, it would make a lady's uterus fall out. In the 1910's, it took the world's fastest woman almost 13 seconds to run 100 meters; men were doing it in around 10.5. By 1988, when Florence Griffith-Joyner set the women's 100 meter world record in 10.49 seconds, men had only improved to slightly under 10 seconds. Women breaking world records in swimming in 2012 are fast enough to challenge Mark Spitz's times in the late 1960's. And during these London Games, 16-year-old Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen caused several bowties to rapidly spin around and royal monocles to pop out when she swam the last 50 meters of her split in the individual medley faster than Ryan Lochte.

As it stands now, the world's fastest women are about 90% as fast as the world's fastest men across a variety of sports and at a variety of distances; The Atlantic calls it the "golden ratio." But if current trends continue and women keep gaining on men, within the next century, the ladies will match the dudes in the water and on the track, according to a computerized projection.

Whether that will actually happen is up for debate, since game-changing sports innovations happen all the time and Olympians keep marrying each other and producing superbabies (marathon superstars Kara Goucher, Paula Radcliffe, and Deena Kastor have all recently given birth to future alpha runners, and 6 adorable married couples can boast that both parties are competing in this year's Olympics. And we can't forget about all of the professional athletes who keep impregnating Victoria's Secret models). But the concept of the world's fastest women approaching the world's fastest men presents new challenges to athletic officials, which they're handling about as poorly as possible.

It seems that as the gap between women and men's achievement narrows, IOC officials expect that women will do their best to look like what gender they're supposed to be, because women who race like men and look like men must be men, right? In order to prevent men from racing as women or women from doping themselves until their veins course with man-blood, a new gender testing procedure has been instituted — basically, if an official suspects that a female competitor may be a little too manly, that competitor will be subject to "gender testing" to make sure she's not packing too must testosterone. In other words, if a lady breaks a world record but looks too boyish, she can be singled out. Better get your nails done, ladies.

To play devil's advocate, it seems the genetic testing is designed to preserve the existence of women's sports; if anyone who identifies as female can compete regardless of their body's ability to produce performance-enhancing hormones, then why separate the genders at all? But gender testing that singles out individuals who dare not look girly enough is a pretty crappy way to do it. The Huffington Post's Maya Rupert points out that there's a crappy racial dimension to gender testing as well,

There is a widely held standard of beauty and femininity that is based on white racial characteristics. Because an assumption of whiteness has permeated gender norms, many features typically associated with white women are popularly mischaracterized as features of all women. Thus, women of color are often perceived as being less feminine. In a system where perception determines whether an athlete's gender will be tested, the inevitable result will be that women of color are more likely to be challenged.

This isn't alarmist hand-wringing; this has actually happened. South African runner Caster Semenya was basically turned into a side show and forced to undergo gender testing when officials doubted that she was really a girl. They later backpedaled, clarifying that they weren't testing her gender; they were simply testing to see if she had a "rare medical condition" that gave her a competitive advantage. Ah, yes. Because no elite athlete possesses any "rare" physical characteristics that may give them an advantage.

How athletic officials will navigate the ever-more-complicated waters of gender and athletic achievement remains to be seen. But as we as spectators are riveted by the razor thin distance between gold, silver, and bronze, in the future, we'll note the distance between what makes a man, what makes a woman, and what happens when they race.

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Heroic Chihuahua Finds Two Little Girls Lost In Georgia Woods [Video]

Aug 4, 2012 4:15 PM  

Carlie and Lacey Parga, ages 5 and 8, were walking their dog Lucy, when she (much bigger and stronger than they) caught a scent in the woods and pulled them off the path. The girls were gone for two hours when their dad and neighbors began searching fruitlessly for them.

One of the neighbors was Carvin Young, the owner of a 3-year-old chihuahua named Bell with whom the girls played almost every day. Once brought along on the search, Bell led them to the girls, who were scared but unharmed. Yay, Bell!

For the fucking record, I accidentally clicked on Hero Dogs of 9/11 when I was trying to get the link for you guys, and this is what I look like now.

'Bell The Chihuahua Finds 2 Girls Lost In Georgia Forest' [HuffPo]

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Teen Girls Are Wearing Shapewear to 'Normalize' Their Bodies [Spanx]

Today in sadface, more and more teenage girls have taken to wearing shapewear underneath clothes on a daily basis, even wearing it beneath their athletic uniforms, because they "don't want to stand out for the wrong reasons," i.e. be seen as fat among their peers. In fact, one of the hottest teen trends (ranked between One Direction and sexting) are Spankies, brightly patterned spandex shorts that work much like Spanx, except, you know, they are not for boring old grandmas.

Some, like doctors and psychologists, worry about the effects that shapewear will have on teens' mental and physical health (from all of the organ squeezing), but don't worry because fired Real Housewife of New York Jill Zarin says it's totally fine that girls are wearing these undergarments:

"Nobody wants to see anybody's body parts rippling. It's just not attractive... What I think shapewear does is that it normalizes the girls' body figures and it evens everybody out."

First, it's important to note that Jill Zarin is currently hawking her own shapewear line Skweez, which is to say that she has a keen interest in girls' health money. Secondly, "normalizes the girls' body figures" is a nonsense phrase for idiots. Third, Zarin's claim that shapewear is beneficial to teenagers because it makes them all the same (skinny) is a depressing sentiment that many people likely share, but few are oblivious enough to voice.

Spanx also weighed in on the issue, releasing this statement to Good Morning America:

"Our mission is to help women feel great about themselves and their potential... Regarding those medical issues for teens using [our] products, in twelve years of selling shapewear, we've never had this issue."

Dare we dream to live in a world where Spanx' reply would be that their product was meant for adult use only? DARE WE?

Shapewear Might Be Affecting Teen Health [GMA]

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Teenage Girls Have an Excellent Question: Why Hasn't There Been a Female Presidential Debate Moderator in Decades? [2012 Election]

A woman hasn't moderated a general-election presidential debate since 1992, but three teenage girls from New Jersey are hoping to change that. Last Tuesday, Emma, Sammi, and Elena stormed into the Washington headquarters of the Commission on Presidential Debates with 118,000 signatures backing up their petition for a woman moderator.

"It's necessary that our country sees a woman in this prominent position, being visible on the political stage, asking the questions," 16-year-old Elena Tsemberis told The Daily Beast. "A female moderator would be able to add a new perspective to the debates and touch on topics that are salient for women in this country, like reproductive rights, inequality in the workplace, and how the economy impacts women and their families."

But that's exactly why candidates don't want to shake things up with a woman moderator: old, boring white guys are somewhat exalted in our country and therefore won't remind voters to press Obama and Romney on complicated issues. Maybe that's why the debate commission has completely ignored the girls (and all media requests for comment) thus far; on Tuesday, the teens and their petition were kicked out by building security.

However, debate expert Allan Louden points out that it would make Romney look fantastic if he changed the status quo by suggesting a woman should moderate:

Romney should call for PBS's Gwen Ifill to moderate, suggests Louden. As a black woman, Ifill would of course be "a statement," he says. But because she's a veteran of multiple vice-presidential debates, he adds, she offers much of the security of the status quo. "She's predictable. She's heavily researched. She has a track record."

Just think of what would happen if Romney came out and said, "I'm for her," posits Louden. As political moves go, he notes, it would be "marvelous."

Oh god. Please, Obama, pick a woman moderator first. Then you can sit back and watch Romney awkwardly try to explain how he feels about the Fair Pay Act.

Teenage Girls on Quest for Woman Moderator of Presidential Debates [Daily Beast]

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Texas Girls May Still Be in Detention After Using Fake Facebook Page to Bully Classmate [Bullying]

Two Texas girls accused of creating a fake Facebook page and impersonating a classmate were detained (and may still be detained) on July 16 and have been charged with online impersonation, a third degree felony. Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds has compared the Facebook impersonation to identity theft, which, he explained when the girls were first arrested, is typically used for "financial gain." "This [the alleged Facebook incident] was just to try and get back at a person," said Deeds, "and ruin them socially, so it's a big deal.

The girls, 12- and 13-years-old respectively, allegedly used the fake page to threaten people in their school, making it seem like their 12-year-old classmate was casting aspersions on her peers as wantonly as one might cast dandelion seeds about a meadow, or some other similarly open plane of land. The victim's parents reported the Facebook page to the sheriff's office back in June, before the suspects' identities had been sussed out by some diligent gumshoeing. When Sheriff Deeds figured out that the architects of the fake Facebook page were really the victim's frenemies, he supposed that there would be some sort of reconciliation. The victim's parents, however, having seen their daughter endure some Count of Monte Cristo shit, weren't so conciliatory.

Since Texas law shields juvenile court records, no one quite knows whether the girls have been released from the detention center they were being held in or not, though Chris Hansen from the ACLU (which isn't involved in the Hood County incident) told NBC that there has been a recent uptick in punishments for childern and teens harassing each other online. He also added that the girls' ages are a little "striking," and wondered whether it was totally on the level to treat people so young as adults, even if they had used the internet to make someone else's life miserable.

2 girls, ages 12 and 13, face felony for fake Facebook account [MSNBC]

‘Facebook girls' remain in detention facility [Hood County News]

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Tavi Gevinson Graces Cover of Bust, Talks Feminism and Mean Girls [Rag Trade]

16-year-old Tavi Gevinson is on the cover of Bust magazine and this week's New York Times Style section. The blogger and Rookie editor talks to the former about her interest in fashion, feminist conversion experience, and college plans. The Times tagged along on Rookie's recent road trip of readings and events across the U.S., which ended last week in California.

Tavi tells Bust about how at age 12 she convinced her parents to let her skip school to line up for the Chicago launch of H&M's Comme des Garçons collection. Gevinson pleaded her case at the family dinner table. "I just said that I thought [Comme des Garçons] was really interesting and that it meant a lot to me," says Gevinson. "Because it was not about looking attractive or looking cool or looking pretty. In retrospect, that must've been really comforting to parents who had a kid in middle school, when everyone else has, like, humping parties or whatever."

Gevinson also explains why she now spends less of her time writing about fashion and attending fashion week events. It's that mean girl Anna Wintour's fault, basically:

"I sat next to Anna Wintour at a Band of Outsiders show, and she asked me, "When do you go to school?" I just felt like, When do your models go to school?...There wasn't any real enthusiasm coming from the people who were there for what was going on around us, even though it should have been this exciting, creative thing. I felt funny about that experience. I wanted to start writing about other things on my blog, branching out from fashion."

Never meet your idols.

Although Gevinson's ardour for fashion has cooled somewhat, and Rookie, the online magazine Gevinson founded at 15, is a general-interest site aimed at teenage girls, Gevinson still thinks a lot about clothes and their meanings. "Fashion can be used to assert your individuality and your control and power over how you perceive yourself and present yourself, and it can be a form of expression." [Bust, NYTimes]

Speaking of very young women in fashion, in the September issue of Flare, 18-year-old cover model Lindsey Wixson says that she thinks about her family every time she's asked to pose topless or nude:

"I want to make them proud and I try to keep it pretty modest. The fashion industry always wants something else out of you and you can decide if you want to fall into that or maintain your morals and stay true to yourself. I always think about what the people from my hometown would think of some of my shoots. I care about what my family thinks — they wouldn't want to see my boobs printed everywhere."

When she was 15, Wixson described having to ask a W stylist to let her wear a flesh-toned bra underneath a transparent blouse the magazine had chosen for her. [Fashionista]

Fashionista and the Fashion Law point out that many of the styles in Madonna's new footwear line strongly resemble designs by Christian Louboutin and Nowhere. Originals are on the left, Madonna's are on the right. [Fashionista, the Fashion Law] OPI is releasing a top coat flecked with tiny pieces of 18-karat gold leaf this fall. No word on price. [TLF] A Los Angeles-based artist designed this Louis Vuitton wafflemaker. [Complex] Want to know who makes money in fashion? A bunch of old white men, mostly. Women's Wear Daily compiled data on executive pay from various S.E.C. filings for this year's list of the most highly paid U.S. C.E.O.s in fashion and retail. JC Penney's newish C.E.O. Ron Johnson tops the list with total 2011 compensation of $53,281,505. Abercrombie & Fitch's Michael Jeffries is second with $48,069,473. Neil Cole, the president and C.E.O. of Iconix, was paid $37,424,782. Ralph Lauren was number four with $36,325,782, and Nike's Mark Parker rounded out the top five with compensation of $35,212,678. These figures are all for total compensation, which for C.E.O.'s comprises both take-home pay and stock options, which fluctuate in value depending on stock prices and when the options actually vest. But however you count it these dudes are still making mad skrill. In addition to Johnson's spot at the top of the list, JC Penney executives and former executives take up three other slots in the top 10 for a total of over $1.4 billion in compensation. Under Johnson's watch, Penney has cut more than 1,000 jobs. Reed Krakoff, the president and executive creative director of Coach (and the owner of a Calder mobile and a spheroid toilet), came in at number eight on the list with compensation of $21,188,980. [WWD]Miuccia Prada gave an interview to Italy's La Repubblica newspaper addressing the decline of Italian apparel and accessories manufacturing and the foreign ownership of Italian luxury brands. Prada used as an example the firing of Belgian designer Raf Simons from Milan-based company Jil Sander (which Prada once owned), which preceded Simons' departure for Paris, where he now leads Christian Dior. Reports WWD:

Prada partly blamed the media, accusing the Italian press of not taking fashion seriously, considering it "frivolous," without realizing how relevant it is in terms of sales and employment. She also pointed a finger at intellectuals and left-leaning politicians, who "remain diffident toward wealth and glamour," while money, she said, can actually help "organize art, culture and fashion."

[WWD]

Model-slash-Transformers star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley tells British Elle magazine that she never really enjoyed modeling. "I wasn't quite tall enough either and I hated it to be honest. There was no individuality, no opportunity to be individuals. I think that people forget you're human and you just become an object. I was constantly reminded that I wasn't right wherever I went and that was difficult because I'd come from a place where it didn't matter." [Telegraph]Congratulations to Missy Rayder, who just gave birth to her first child. The model and her boyfriend, artist Marko Velickovic, have named their son Luka. [P6]Karlie Kloss is going to be the face of the giant Target/Neiman Marcus/designers fashion collaboration happening this holiday season. [WWD]Fashionista has a round-up of all the 2012 September issues' ad pages. Vogue is sitting pretty with 658 ad pages, up 74% from 2011. Elle has 400 and Harper's Bazaar has 360, and each is up 51% over last year. Marie Claire has 237, an increase of 45%, and InStyle rounds out the top five with 440 pages, up 10%. Lucky is the biggest ad page-loser, with 136, down 38%. We're still going to be picking up the Lucky September issue, however — we hear that the cover profile of Eva Longoria was written by This American Life's Starlee Kine. [Fashionista]Now that Brian Atwood is partly owned by the large apparel company Jones, the brand is planning to open its first-ever boutique. Three more are to follow in 2013, up to a total of 15 Brian Atwood stores by 2017. [WWD]According to the Rapaport Report, the diamond industry's standard pricing guide, diamond prices are falling due to declining demand in India, where the currency is currently high, and Europe.

The group said the price for one-carat diamonds dropped 13.7 percent year-over-year in June. During the first half of 2012, prices for one-carat diamonds fell 3.6 percent, with the steepest declines occurring during the latter part of May and through June.

You know what this means, ladiez! If he really loves you, he'll buy you a 13.7% bigger rock. [WWD]

And now, a moment with Robin Givhan. Robin, how did winning a Pulitzer for your fashion criticism affect your life and career?

Probably one of the most gratifying things after winning was I got such an outpouring of support from the industry. Mostly women, because with newspapers, certainly, it's mostly been women who've covered the fashion industry, and several of them said that they were so thrilled and felt that it had elevated them in the eyes of their own newsroom because so often, fashion, even though it's a billion-dollar industry, is still seen as this kind of women's concern.

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CNN Apologizes for Playing ‘Stupid Girls’ Ahead of Sarah Palin Segment [Rogue Rules]

Jul 30, 2012 11:15 AM  

CNN apologized on Sunday for playing Pink's "Stupid Girls" during a segment about former Alaskan governor and ineffable presence on John McCain's campaign pins Sarah Palin proudly visiting a Chick-fil-A with her husband Todd. Palin tweeted a picture in which she and Todd are hoisting their sacks of fried chicken up to the camera and smiling. The text reads, "Stopped by Chick-fil-A in The Woodlands to support a great business."

Since Chick-fil-A has been pretty vocal about its bigotry lately, Palin's tweet set the media wheels in motion, but CNN got a little ahead of itself, faced some heat for playing "Stupid Girls" during the Palin segment, and later explained that the song "was a poor choice and was not intended to be linked to any news story." Who knew going into the weekend that Dick Cheney and CNN would both criticize Sarah Palin, and that Cheney would be the only one not to apologize? Actually, that makes sense because Cheney is kind of a...you get it, waka-waka-waka.

CNN: Playing ‘Stupid Girls' Ahead of Sarah Palin Story a ‘Poor Choice' [THR]

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Girls Still Sociologically Encouraged To Be With the Band, Not In the Band [Genderal Interest]

It seems that the days of groupies getting traded between rock bands for $50 and a case of beer weren't left to James Cameron's nostalgic film lens. Professor William T. Bielby has examined the sociological roots of rock groupiedom and its continued pervasiveness in a piece entitled Rock in a Hard Place: Grassroots Cultural Production in the Post-Elvis Era.

From the beginning, girls were the primary consumers of amateur rock bands in the 1950s, arguably the golden age of what we now know as rock & roll (although, obviously, more than half of that shit was jacked from black musicians like Chubby Checker and Smokey Robinson).

By and large, white male groups emerged from this period as the mega-stars, likely due to the gendered parenting of that time: boys were given more free reign to hang out unsupervised for jamming and gigs, while girls were kept under a much closer watch lest they get "in trouble." Circa the rise of idols James Dean and Elvis Presley, and it took very few accoutrements for a boy to emulate the alluring teen rebel. Or, as Bielby puts it:

Teenage boys saw Elvis impress the girls, so they got their friends, other teenage boys, to start bands with them.

Even the most famous girl groups of that time, rather than emulating this tactic of eschewing authority themselves, rebelled by falling in love with the male rebels, as evidenced the lyrics of hits like "He's A Rebel" by the Crystals or "Leader of the Pack" by the Shangri-Las.

My folks were always putting him down
They said he came from the wrong side of town
They told me he was bad
But I knew he was sad
That's why I fell for the leader of the pack.

These origins continue to play into the modern consumption of rock music in sublimated, unexpected ways: on T-shirts, in fact, as one shopper noticed in a Toronto H&M. Where were the "I am a drummer shirts"? Oh, in the Ladies' Nowhere section. NBD. Not to mention that this is akin to branding yourself like the musician in question's commodity.

Bielby did note the prevalence of female bassists in alt rock bands, but said that this is the result of a typical gender role mechanism: as the bass became sidelined as a "female" instrument and not considered "men's work" (like, say, drumming or lead guitar), increasingly more room was made for female bassists.

To get the bad taste out of your mouth, here is a delightful live performance by Gilda Radner in the 1970s as female delinquent rocker character Candy Slice. Which, ironically, is still about a man (Mick Jagger). But it's satire!

'"I Fancy The Lead Singer": Bands, Fans and Gender' [The Society Pages]

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