The Snob Talks Lena Dunham's Boobs and Beyonce's Docu-Drama-Rama on NPR

The Snob returned to NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin for another round of the popular "Beauty Shop" segment. This time, myself, along with regulars Viviana Hurtado of The Wise Latina Club and Bridget Johnson with PJ Media, were talking about "Lady Power" in the form of Lena Dunham's floppy boobs being the other "stars" of her hit show "Girls," and Beyonce's recent HBO documentary where she declares her career independence while also shouting out her "loving" interdependence on hubby Jay-to-the-Izzo. Since I think all drama surrounding Dunham is hilarious (but in that "laughing at, not with" kind of way) and I think Beyonce is a huge try-hard whom I both love and cannot stand, I was full of opinions!

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The Snob Talks Todd Akin's "Legitimate Rape," Paul Ryan's Black Woman of Ex-Girlfriends Past on NPR

Click to enlarge.This Wednesday The Snob made a return to NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin for the Beauty Shop segment. Michel was out, leaving it up to the Wise Latinas Club's Viviana Hurtado to do the heavy host lifting. Topics du jour included Missouri's Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin channelling Effie White from "Dreamgirls," telling the GOP he's not going from the Senate race and YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE ME in the face of overwhelming pressure to drop out; Romney veep pick Paul Ryan's black ex-girlfriend and whether or not she matters (Short version: She doesn't.); and Augusta National allowing female members to their golf club the same year Saudi Arabia finally sent female athletes to the Olympics. Joining me for the chat are Beauty Shop regulars Mary Kate Cary and Bridget Johnson.  

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The Snob Talks Sally Ride's Life In the Glass Closet, Shooting In Aurora, Colo.

The Snob returned to NPR's "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin Wednesday to discuss the recent death of Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. A pioneer in promoting women and the sciences, Ride's sexual orientation came up for discussion when in her obituary it was listed she was survived by her partner of many years, who happened to be a woman. Myself, along with Viviana Hurtado, Bridget Johnson and Deepa Iyer of South Asian Americans Leading Together discussed the inner debate of private versus public many well-known gays and lesbians face. We also briefly chatted about the tragic shooting in Aurora, Colo. and what its impact will be.

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The Snob Talks Latina Vote, Talkin' to Teens 'Bout Sex & Magic Mike on NPR

The cast of "Magic Penis" ... I mean, "Mike." Yeah ... Mike.The Snob returned to NPR's Tell Me More program Wednesday to talk about possible White House "pandering" to the Latina mommy vote. (Are Latinas the new Soccer Moms, aka Futubol Mommies?) As part of the Beauty Shop segment with guest host Maria Hinosoja, we also discussed Kris Jenner recently admitting that when her famous daughter Kim Kardashian was a teen she put her on birth control and briefly discussed all the hype surrounding the bro-tastic, but "ribbed for her pleasure" hit stripper melodrama "Magic Mike."

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The Snob Talks Having It All, Immigration, Fifty Shades of Horrible on NPR

Women! Can you have it all? (No.) Immigrants! Will you be racially profiled in Arizona? (Probably.) Book lovers! Is former Twilight fan fiction Fifty Shades of Grey terrible? (YES.) All this and more as The Snob pops in to the "Beauty Shop" segment on NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin. Michel was out today, so Viviana Hurtado (who I'm often on with on the Beauty Shop) was guest hosting. She was great! Joining myself and Viviana were PJ Media editor Bridget Johnson and Deepa Iyer of South Asian Americans Leading Together.

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The Snob Talks Catholic/Contraception Debate and Lolo "No-No" Jones' Virginity Talk

Lolo JonesThe Snob returned to NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin for the Beauty Shop segment Wednesday to talk the Catholic Church wanting an exemption on paying for birth control in mandated health insurance, Olympic hopeful, sprinter Lolo Jones opening up about being a 29-year-old virgin and Eva Longoria's controversial, but dead-on-arrival TV pilot for "Devious Maids." I was joined for the segment with the usual suspects -- Wise Latina Club's Viviana Hurtado and US News & World Report's Mary Kate Cary, as well as TV critic Mekeisha Madden Toby.

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The Snob Talks Trayvon Martin, Romney's Illinois win on NPR

The Snob returned to NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin's "beauty shop" segment Wednesday to talk about the tragic death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin (which I wrote about at length on Tuesday), Mitt Romney's recent win in Illinois making it less likely I'll get my dream of a brokered GOP convention and whether or not the joke on actress Sophia Vergara's accent in a recent Cover Girl commercial is funny or offensive. Also in on the chat, Beauty Shop regulars Mary Kate Cary, Viviana Hurtado and Chicago Sun Times columnist Mary Mitchell.

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The Snob Talks Rush, Black Women's Bodies and the Angry Latina Stereotype on NPR

The Snob (me) on a panel at The Washington Center, this week, discussing women in communications as part of Women's History Month. (Journalist and activist Marga Fipp, right.)The Snob returned to the "Beauty Shop" this week on NPR's "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin. Joined by fellow Beauty Shop regulars Mary Kate Cary, Viviana Hurtado and newcomer Lonnae O'Neal Parker of The Washington Post, we discussed Rush Limbaugh finally going one "slut" comment too far, O'Neal Parker's article for the Post about how black women having a more positive view of their bodies than their white female counterparts (even though statistically more black women are overweight), and a recent story on Jezebel about why Latinas feel they can't get angry -- thanks to that whole "hot" Latina anger stereotype that causes others to dismiss and marginalize them when they do get peeved.

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The Snob Talks Santorum, Rihanna, Chris Brown remix on NPR

The Snob returned to NPR's "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin Wednesday, where I took up residence in the "Beauty Shop" segment. Along with Beauty Shop regulars Michelle Bernard, Viviana Hurtado and Mary Kate Cary we talked about GOP presidential wannabe Rick Santorum's preoccupation with what's going on in your uterus and the recent musical collaboration between pop singer Rihanna and her abusive ex-boyfriend, R&B singer Chris Brown. Short version of what I thought: People are typically indifferent to unsympathetic when a friend takes an ex-boyfriend back. When it's someone famous and everyone can pass judgment, I imagine that teeth-sucking derision comes back tenfold.

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