Dancing With The Stars will crown its champion tonight, and no matter who wins, normative expectations of gender and sexuality will be challenged. Our three contestant offer alternative masculinities and femininities to a public reared on Barbie and Ken. Read the rest of this entry »
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Foucault would surely recognize television talk shows as a sort of confessional for a secular society, taking up the Christian demand that we both know the truth of ourselves and make that truth over and over again through a constant narrativizing of the self and confession of sin. Read the rest of this entry »
CMT 
has wrapped up round two of its Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search. The show goes like this: founder and original Coyote Lil picks five women from her franchise of bars to pair up with newcomers and vie–as a team–for $50,000 and the title “The Ultimate Coyote.” What does it take to be the ultimate coyote? It takes dancing, singing and entertaining. It takes teamwork as the “veterans” are expected to train the newbies from the ground up. But above all, it takes the ability to sell obscene amounts of liquor to a crowd thirsty for a lot more than booze. And these women are good at it.