LZ Sunday Paper Newsletter: The "Verified" Edition
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Readers,
Happy Academy Awards!
It is highly unlikely that I will be watching the show. However, I am incredibly enthusiastic that it will be on for several hours tonight. I will be rooting for my Twitter feed to keep me posted.
Speaking of Twitter, this week, the LZSundayPaper Twitter account got "verified." Twitter swears that by virtue of placing an official check-mark next to the account name, this whole thing is legit. This new-fangled Good Tweetkeeping Seal Of Approval makes me feel not only verified, but validated. I recognize that I am not my Sunday Paper's Twitter account and shouldn't need a check mark to legitimize it or me.
Conclusion: not exactly a breaking news story, but social media and its mental ramifications is a weird and confounding thing.
In other not exactly breaking news, ICYMI (for those not wasting all their time on social media, this stands for In Case You Missed It), The New York Times Magazine has been redesigned!
After a brief once over, there appear to be lots of great things about the new-ish, but definitely not new, Magazine. They have great writers, but I think they always did.
The new photography and art direction are distinctive and seem compelling. This week, they have 4 different covers and the Table of Contents that is spread over, I think, 9 pages so you really have a chance to feel like you are "reading" the magazine without getting overwhelmed by lots of complicated articles about depressing things right off the bat. That is also quite validating.
Also, it is on beautiful paper stock and has many, many advertisements. This ironically makes it feel like the "old" New York Times Magazine, when magazines had ads!
Let me state clearly: I want The Times Magazine to be fantastic and I hope it is.
On the downside, calling attention to a redesign, rather than just doing it, is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, lots and lots of people work very hard on these types of reinventions. On the other, very few people, other than a few mothers of the staff, actually care about how it got done. Also, in my experience, significant others of the staffers who work on redesigns only care about the project getting completed so they don't have to hear about how their mate's brilliant idea got rejected by their idiot boss every night at dinner.
In a long article about itself, The Times Magazine sez:
In the immortal words of Mugatu, "The man has only one look, for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigra? They're the same face! Doesn't anybody notice this? I feel like I am taking crazy pills!!!"
Okay, let's move on to onto the category of "let she who is without sin cast the first stone." I recognize that I am a person who has been responsible for thousands and thousands of microscopically different versions of new and/or re-designed logos. Man oh man, we made our way around fonts, kerning, and minimally different Pantone Shades of Grey and every other color known to human-kind. My point is that these are things one has to do when one takes art, design, and communication seriously. But whatever it is that you are deciding with your team of people who live and die by a point size, I highly recommend that you don't publicize that that is what you do all day. Because that is the type of thing that causes your boss to slash your marketing budget, people to make fun of you for using phrases like "more graciously spaced," and makes more parents say "What the hell did I pay all that money for--go get a real job!"
Also, I wonder, will this (male) editor-in-chief, who is begging his readers to treat his newborn infonts "gently," get raked over the coals like Marissa Meyer did for her redesign of the Yahoo logo? Granted, she did say "Our last move was to tilt the exclamation point by 9 degrees, just to add a bit of whimsy." But still, I don't think you can argue that the tilt of an exclamation point is any more/less irritating than the phrase "graciously spaced." The bottom line is that the old and new Yahoo logos are more different than the old and new NYTimes logos and she was eviscerated. This one (of very, very many) pieces written, is from Inc. Magazine:
Anyhow…
I hereby verify that every Sunday, The LZ Sunday Paper is redesigned, kerned and micro-managed into submission. It is always about, but not exclusively for, women in business, politics, digital, tech, media, music, tv, film, fashion, sports, and culture. I hope you'll have a laugh by the end of it.
You can find the most recent copy of the paper and the Archive at LZSundayPaper.com. You can follow me or tweet me on my newly verified account at @LZSundayPaper. You can send me a note or an item you think I should see at LZSundayPaper@gmail.com.
See you next Sunday!
LZ
THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
Double Layered Veils And Despair: Women Describe Life Under Isis via The Guardian
"…girls could be married from the age of nine, and that women should only leave the house in exceptional circumstances and should remain 'hidden and veiled'."
NEWS & INSIGHTS:
Don't Blame Parents For Vaccine Resistance via Slate
“Blame mothers."
Feminist Writers Are So Besieged By Online Abuse That Some Have Begun To Retire via The Washington Post
" 'There is trauma, especially related to the death and rape threats,' she says. Eventually, such sustained abuse ends up changing people — both how they live and how they work."
Twitter Safety Officer Talks Building Trust via The Wall Street Journal
"Her role increasingly appears as if she is playing a game of Whac-a-Mole."
How To Talk To Girls On Twitter Without Coming Off Like A Creepy Rando via Deadspin
"Like most other spaces on earth, the internet is a deeply unchill place for women."
Jessica Williams, 'Impostor Syndrome,' and The Many Ways We Serially Doubt Women via Salon
"And this is the problem with “lean in” applied as a universal feminist ethos."
The Women On My Television: Watching The Women Of SNL via Medium
"Radner didn’t keep her binging / purging a secret from her coworkers and even went so far as to tell a reporter she had thrown up in every bathroom in 30 Rock."
Amber Rose, Kylie Jenner, and The Intersection of Class and Slut-Shaming via Madame Noire
"…a topless and bottomless sex tape made by the daughter of a late high-powered attorney is viewed as shocking, cheeky and even artful, a nude Rose is not."
Can You Judge A Man By His Fingers? via McGill University
"Study finds link between relative length of index and ring fingers in men and behavior towards women."
Kellie Maloney Considering Return As Boxing Promoter After Gender Reassignment via BBC Sport
"I would love to go back and prove that Kellie can achieve the same thing Frank achieved."
Lesley Gore, Feminist Icon via Slate
"You don't own me, don't try to change me in any way/ You don't own me, don't tie me down 'cause I'd never stay."
IN HONOR OF THE ACADEMY AWARDS:
50 Essential Feminist Films via Flavorwire
"These films, directed by women and men, have broadened the scope of female representation in cinema."
Why 'Fatal Attraction' Is The Horror Movie Version Of 'Lean In' via Matter via Medium
" 'I’m thirty-six years old!’ Alex Forrest, the homicidal single career woman of Fatal Attraction, moans. ‘It may be my last chance to have a child!’ "
Women Prevailing Despite Sexism In Slowly Changing Below-The-Line Industry via Variety
" 'All the silliness stopped after my first (Oscar) nomination,' Behlmer says. 'People stopped doubting I could do the big movies after that.' "
Hollywood Is Working Hard To Make Women Cry via The Wall Street Journal
"Scholars…have studied why some scenes strike a chord with women and others affect men more."
The Best Supporting Actress Race At The Oscars Reveals An Uncomfortable Truth via Time
"The Best Supporting Actress roles are depressingly obvious: mother, daughter, girlfriend or witch."
Producer Gale Ann Hurd: Sexism Against Women Directors Hasn't Changed Since The '80's via IndieWire
“ 'How can a little girl like you produce a big movie like this?' she recalls being asked about her talents."
Will One Of These Movies Win Meryl Streep Her Next Oscar? via Time
"She's playing a rock star, an opera singer, and an iconic suffragette in her next three films."
AND WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT:
Six Women Tell The Story Of Their Lives Through Jewelry via New York Magazine
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