notmariasherman
Maria Sherman
notmariasherman
URL: Senior Writer, Jezebel. IRL: Author of the very good book 'LARGER THAN LIFE: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS,' out now.

For some reason, when I hear a pop song on the radio that I don’t know, and I end up liking it, it’s usually an Ariana Grande song. She’s got someone writing really catchy songs and she has good pipes (even if she can’t enunciate).
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“Anal pap smear” is a horrifying phrase. Read more

To violate a woman during such an already-vulnerable time while presenting yourself as a medical profession in whom women trust ... fuck you. Read more

I love “Bang Bang” (plz don’t @ me) Read more

Eyes almost rolled out of my head reading the comments on the Variety article. Why did I do that smh. Read more

This is just cruel. This woman just literally put her life on the line for them to have a child, and instead of thanking her, they insult such a private part of her body and show it on TV against her wishes. What assholes. Read more

This news on conscious gender inclusion is great, but that topic could have stood on its own. Instead the author goes totally out of her depth on Spanish politics and government and looks every bit the clueless NYC 20-something writing thinkpieces on subjects she knows nothing about. Read more

The show IS traumatic AF, but my own teenager and the teenagers I work with all have similar thoughts about it - this is what happens in school. Why aren’t we talking about the fact that this is what some people are experiencing?
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I love Andra, but she’s been singing “Rise Up” for four years and I’m tired. Maybe she’ll be good in it though. I wish anyone but Lee Daniels was directing. We don’t want this biopic to become a soap opera. Read more

Watching it is literal torture Read more

Only recently got into Andra Day,and always was fascinated with Lady Day,so... Read more

I’ll bet he actually thinks that— “Well, *I* was fine with it, therefore it was consensual”
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I never watched SATC but at the time it was on I was living in a two storey house that had been converted to two flats. My bedroom was beneath the living room/bedroom of the other flat where a couple lived. Every week they’d have friends over for dinner and to watch the show. I’d hear them laughing and talking during Read more