LZ Sunday Paper Newsletter: The "So Long, Farewell 2014" Edition
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Greetings!
A Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year to you!
Thank you for supporting an incredibly fun and successful first year of the LZSundayPaper. My #1 fan and longest-standing supporter sent in a good item this week that has inspired me to re-instate the dormant "Just To Kick Things Off" foto-feature.
JUST TO KICK THINGS OFF:
The person who sent this, not being a mother, cannot partake of the product, according to the packaging. So this company lost a sale. I wonder what would happen if a Dad, other relative, friend, or caregiver sought to use this product? Would it not work? Though this snapshot was taken in a CVS just this week, perhaps it is left over from a mindset of decades past.
Do you recall that Midol used to have ad campaign that claimed to have a secret ingredient that is "just for women?" There were rumors -- actually they were claims stated as facts in my junior high school -- that if boys took Midol something would…explode? or they'd have to go to the hospital? something very dire is what I recall. That secret ingredient was called…acetaminophen. And for some reason they threw in caffeine for good measure! I realize that this was before the internet consumer product research era but I'm guessing that it was not before there were ingredients listed on packages.
Switching gears:
One of my least favorite things in meetings is when a person turns the page of their PowerPoint presentation and leads off with a statement like, "I'm not going to spend much time on this slide."
Career tip: Now you've a) wasted 6 seconds saying that b) apologized for no reason c) gotten everyone thinking about how much time you're taking instead of focusing on what you are saying. Instead, simply just don't spend too much time on the slide, just hit the highlights. Everyone will be happy/relieved that you did a good job just saying what you need to say and then turned the page!
Curveball: I'm not going to take my own advice (actually, a somewhat frequent occurrence). Right now, I'm going to do that very same annoying thing.
Readers: "This week, I'm not going to spend much time on this intro."
Every week, The Sunday Paper spends loads of time talking about women who spend time in business, digital, tech, media, music, tv, film, fashion, sports, and culture. We try to keep it brief, but usually fail miserably. Except at making people laugh, which is a skill at which we hope to excel even more so, in 2015.
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Thank you again to an incredibly faithful bunch of email recipients and social media readers for making this a great first year of the LZSundayPaper. And welcome to an especially large group of new subscribers, this week! Perhaps we are going viral, together, in 2015!
Enjoy, and see you next year!
LZ
THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
This May Have Been The Best Year For Women Since The Dawn Of Time via Time
So 2014 has been a year of setbacks, indignities and outrage. It’s not been great. But it’s better than ever.
NEWS & INSIGHTS:
18 Badass Women You Probably Didn't Hear About in 2014 via Buzzfeed
“Badass women alert."
Yahoo's Marissa Meyer And The Glass Cliff via New York Magazine
"…Those companies who appointed women to their boards were more likely to have experienced consistently bad performance in the preceding five months than those who appointed men,"
A Brand New World In Which Men Ruled via The New York Times
"Instead of narrowing gender gaps, the technology industry created vast new ones for Stanford University’s pioneering class of 1994."
Survey: Limited Partners Don't Think More Senior-Level Women At Private Equity Firms Will Better Returns via Reuters
"88 percent of the 114 LP respondents believed more female partners doesn’t equal better returns."
Meet Paul Nungesser, The Accused Student At The Center Of The Fight Over Campus Rape via Slate
"Nungesser has come to symbolize all the entitled young men who take what they want and never pay the consequences. That’s not quite fair."
Modern Moms Aren't As Busy A 1960's Moms Were via The Atlantic
"Few women today would likely say that their preferred form of exercise is scrubbing shirts on a washboard."
The Rise Of Men Who Don't Work And What They Do Instead via The New York Times
"Men who identify as homemakers remain relatively rare, but they are about twice as common as they were in 2000."
The Year Network TV Finally Let Us See Natural Black Hair via Slate
"…a striking image so rarely seen on network TV, of a black woman at her most vulnerable and real."
Iggy Azaelea: Dumb Or Evil? A Brief Investigation via Jezebel
"She also has repeatedly referred to herself as 'ghetto,' because, I dunno, kangaroos."
Roman Polanski Loses Motion To Have 1977 Sex Case Dismissed via Entertainment Weekly
"Polanski and his attorneys maintain that this latest extradition attempt did not include the information that he served 42 days of prison time after he pled guilty to having unlawful sex with a minor in 1977."
Dressing Our Daughters: How Target Responded to My Last Blog Post via Binkies & Briefcases
"My concern was, in fact, that shorts being offered to our girls are just too short. Period. The end."
A Week Of 'Good News' Shows How Bad Christian Women Still Have It via Slate
"Perhaps if the church had spent the last six years investigating its own treatment of women, instead of scrutinizing how women themselves are behaving, it might have made some progress."
From The Comments On The 'New York Times' Story On Manspreading via Gawker
"Bucket of balls." Heh."
Jennifer Aniston Bares All in 'Allure' via Refinery29
"You may not have a child come out of your vagina, but that doesn't mean you aren't mothering."
It's Not About You: When Men Take Women's Style Personally via Feministing
"To believe that we as women solely adorn ourselves for the specifically sexual gaze of men is, looked at in this way, a denial of humanity."
Watch President Obama Break Down Stereotypes About Toys For Girls And Boys via Slate
"What, girls don’t like tools?"
Margaret Mead On Myth vs. Deception and What To Tell Kids About Santa Claus via Brainpickings
"How to instill an appreciation of the difference between “fact” and “poetic truth,” in kids and grownups alike."
114-Year Old Woman Who Challenged Facebook's Age Policy Dies via The Guardian
"Because the site wouldn’t let her enter a birth year before 1905, she said she was 99…she wrote a letter to the company, saying: “I’m still here."
AND WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT:
Why Dyed Armpit Hair Will Be The Most Subversive Trend of 2015 via The Guardian
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