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Kathleen Baty calls herself the Safety Chick. She has made it her mission to get women to think smart about keeping safe. Baty found her calling after being stalked for eight years by a former acquaintance who eventually attempted to kidnap her at knifepoint. After an 11-hour police standoff, Baty escaped. She was determined never to be a victim again. Her book A Girl's Gotta Do What a Girl's Gotta Do (Rodale) offers plans for staying safe while working, shopping, traveling, surfing the Net or going on a date. To avoid being dosed with a date-rape...
...Saturday night this guy, whom we’ll call Mr. Freestyla’, walked into the Grille and started flowing to a beat that was playing in the background—a flow about “the chick behind the grille” and how he’d like to “take me to his crib.” Keep in mind, Mr. Freestyla’ was a little white boy (sophomore) and while he was decent at freestyling and even decent looking, he was clearly drunk and at a complete loss for inhibition...
...lights dim as the soft techno beat—bown-chick-a-wown-wown—complements the action. And so begins Matthew C. Janicak’s ’04 animation piece, “The TMNTijuana Bibles.” Janicak, a VES concentrator, collaborated with Benjamin F. Dougan ’04 to create the animated teenage mutant ninja turtle porn for his final project in VES 53a, “Fundamentals of Animation.” The film received mixed reviews when it was screened at the end of the semester...
Before you scan Variety for a headline reading CHICK PIX CLICK AT PLEX, you should know that the women's-film glass is nine-tenths empty. Of the 10 top-grossing movies released in 2002, Greek Wedding was the only one whose leading character was a woman. Of the nine others, six were sequels--parts of franchises that are almost exclusively built around men. Women have to start from scratch every time...
...name sounds second-class and second-rate. "It narrows the experience," says Meryl Poster, co-president of production at Miramax Films, which distributes Chicago and is a partner in The Hours. "It doesn't sound like a full picture; you think it's weepy or trite." Another pejorative, chick flicks, is even more limiting. "It denigrates a male appreciation of the female experience," says Diane Lane, who won the New York Film Critics' Actress award for her turn as an adulterous wife in Unfaithful. "I think men are very curious and surprised by the female experience they see when...