k.d. and Ariel Levy

After Ellen's Best. Lesbian. Week. Ever. linked to this article in New York Magazine on k.d. lang. It's interesting especially in its consideration of butchness. Curious about the author, Ariel Levy, I googled her and, though her regular gig is writing for NYM, she came out with a book a few years ago called Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture where she --

cleverly leads us to explore the role models women aspire to emulate. We are not pursuing the confident, self-determined, powerful, free ideal the women’s liberation movement would have dreamed for its daughters. Instead, our icons are porn stars and strippers and prostitutes. Paris Hilton and Jenna Jameson flaunt their successes in the pornography industry, and in doing so seem to earn our adulation.

Also, can I just say? Ariel Levy is pretty hot:


And she got married to her gf, Amy Norquist, in Virginia near where I grew up --

No wonder she was able to speak so knowingly about butchness. (What's she carrying by the way? Did she bring work with her to her wedding?!?)

Here are a couple of clips from a Dutch documentary called Beperkt Houdbaar --





Aaaand, if you're interested (and I know some of you are), she wrote this piece on Hillary.