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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>Amanda Hess is a writer in Los Angeles.
She is in the middle.</description><title>AMANDA HESS</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @amandahess)</generator><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>"Julianne Moore for L’Oreal: It’s not your typical lucrative skincare endorsement!"</title><description>“Julianne Moore for L’Oreal: It’s not your typical lucrative skincare endorsement!”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;I wrote about the problem with&lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/05/24/julianne_moore_in_dujour_why_celebrity_women_are_reduced_to_aging_motherhood.html"&gt; journalism funded by beauty brands&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/51254664926</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/51254664926</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 18:24:52 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>megangreenwell:

Now I’m going on the hardest-earned vacation of...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b5561b103b4736ffdea1b61ace29cbbd/tumblr_mn9hi8SVu41r6zn9lo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://megangreenwell.com/post/51157761047/i-made-this-not-by-myself-in-case-that-was"&gt;megangreenwell&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Now I’m going on the hardest-earned vacation of my career.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I’ll bring the gold Lexus, u bring the Silver Pass.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/51162060443</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/51162060443</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:36:37 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"I saw some of the best writers of my generation destroyed by celebrity profiling."</title><description>“I saw some of the best writers of my generation destroyed by celebrity profiling.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_spectator/2007/06/the_worst_celebrity_profile_ever_written.3.html"&gt;Ron Rosenbaum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/51019734448</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/51019734448</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:15:47 -0400</pubDate><category>celebrities</category><category>slate</category><category>ron rosenbaum</category></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m928zlU4RW1rvs1mmo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50930082964</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50930082964</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 16:28:02 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>rosalarian:

Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/101ddf748dc71061ead985e903b20292/tumblr_mmt9daWscy1qbtxv8o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/79c084180cb4f8b95980f57d6d1f4d7b/tumblr_mmt9daWscy1qbtxv8o2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://rosalarian.tumblr.com/post/50452207989/tickingtimebomb"&gt;rosalarian&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;basically.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50458367574</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50458367574</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 20:27:46 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Hi Jake.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/0bd6c8632b65589a5450e48c97b5a83c/tumblr_mmt3vpMkkt1qzo3n9o1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hi Jake.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50443455764</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50443455764</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 17:04:37 -0400</pubDate><category>amanda hess</category><category>jake tapper</category></item><item><title>"The lonely person was just about the most terrifying spectacle in the world."</title><description>“The lonely person was just about the most terrifying spectacle in the world.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;You’re &lt;a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113176/science-loneliness-how-isolation-can-kill-you"&gt;making it sound kind of boss, though.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50396923453</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50396923453</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 23:41:07 -0400</pubDate><category>loneliness</category><category>lonely</category><category>the new republic</category></item><item><title>Ted Chaough can spread my margarine any day of the week.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1708a8ff2352990549b6c35713ff32c7/tumblr_mmq6vo9Fc41rm7sbeo2_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/13aa51c9e7323b2f3eb9235f8a09ee8c/tumblr_mmq6vo9Fc41rm7sbeo1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ted Chaough can spread my margarine any day of the week.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50359763050</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50359763050</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:41:00 -0400</pubDate><category>kevin rahm</category><category>Ted Chaough</category><category>mad men</category><category>don draper</category><category>jon hamm</category></item><item><title>Happy Mother’s Day</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d56b54d0d5fdfbdb75279464b4979acf/tumblr_mmp7yjMDKu1qzo3n9o2_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a5af12715edf52d706ae52be6137acd3/tumblr_mmp7yjMDKu1qzo3n9o5_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ccc9054e75b03f5aa0b5cd5ab05e6e71/tumblr_mmp7yjMDKu1qzo3n9o1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/df28890c7e1cd4e7a42e1eba31948666/tumblr_mmp7yjMDKu1qzo3n9o4_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/2f216bbd2adb99dd94a90372d54131a6/tumblr_mmp7yjMDKu1qzo3n9o3_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Happy Mother’s Day&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50276755899</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50276755899</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 14:42:19 -0400</pubDate><category>mother's day</category><category>mothers</category><category>moms</category><category>ladies</category><category>family</category></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/562590f2be5c2c0605dc0bc3451512f9/tumblr_mmo5otPOjA1qzo3n9o1_250.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50227241178</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50227241178</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 00:55:41 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>are you being sarcastic in your response to '50 shades of gary' or do you agree with what he said? Personally I think he's wrong, I know of a lot of male pornstars but james is still my favorite</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I’m being sarcastic! That man knows nothing.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50144966268</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50144966268</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 01:06:53 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Is the storyboard interview with James Deen going to be published or not?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/46711c2bfb5b2d7dc802042cfb5a699f/tumblr_inline_mmmbfhNqkY1qzo226.gif"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, no. Storyboard is dead—but even before it was dead, the higher-ups there got skittish about highlighting pornographic content (this happens to me not-infrequently) and killed the story. The Daily Beast did end up publishing &lt;a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2012/12/15/the-porn-star-next-door.html"&gt;this video interview&lt;/a&gt; I did with James, in which he answers questions posed by fans. Thanks to everyone who contributed.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50144912429</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50144912429</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 01:05:54 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>50-shades-of-gary:

Casual reminder to all the ladies out there: James Deen isn’t your favorite porn...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://50-shades-of-gary.tumblr.com/post/50051195496/casual-reminder-to-all-the-ladies-out-there-james"&gt;50-shades-of-gary&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Casual reminder to all the ladies out there: James Deen isn’t your favorite porn star as much as he is &lt;strong&gt;THE ONLY ONE YOUVE EVER FUCKING HEARD OF.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;50 Shades of Gary&amp;#8221; has his finger on the pulse of female sexuality.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50121370442</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50121370442</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 19:19:01 -0400</pubDate><category>50 shades of gary</category><category>james deen</category><category>mansplaining</category><category>porn</category><category>ladies</category></item><item><title>I went to a Playboy party at the Chateau Marmont and said,...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/36a73d8105ffd630dc69ff263e94d69b/tumblr_mmlp62LwU21qzo3n9o1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I went to &lt;a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/about-last-night-neville-wakefields-arty-bash-for-playboy/"&gt;a Playboy party at the Chateau Marmont&lt;/a&gt; and said, “I’m with the &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;.” I left with seven fat business cards: Six &lt;em&gt;Playboy&lt;/em&gt;, one Jaguar.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50111750493</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50111750493</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:03:38 -0400</pubDate><category>cooper hefner</category><category>hugh hefner</category><category>playboy</category><category>the new york times</category><category>chateau marmont</category><category>porn</category><category>journalism</category></item><item><title>"It’s a Teen Mom claiming to have a really lousy time with a porn star known for making women..."</title><description>“It’s a Teen Mom claiming to have a really lousy time with a porn star known for making women feel sexually empowered.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;How Vivid and TMZ used Farrah Abraham and James Deen’s “sex tape” to &lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/05/09/teen_mom_sex_tape_in_backdoor_teen_mom_farrah_abraham_and_james_deen_tell.html"&gt;troll the sexualities of young women&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50050504105</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/50050504105</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 20:19:00 -0400</pubDate><category>amanda hess</category><category>farrah abraham</category><category>james deen</category><category>farrah and james</category><category>backdoor teen mom</category><category>sex tape</category><category>porn</category><category>vivid</category><category>pornography</category><category>slate</category></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/dad3bd13acccf183832e5c2e6d50a235/tumblr_mmfkmyeWKh1qzo3n9o1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/49853648259</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/49853648259</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 09:40:10 -0400</pubDate><category>new girl</category><category>schmift</category><category>youths</category></item><item><title>"Everyone is, in fact, alone. Being contractually tied to another person—in marriage, for..."</title><description>“Everyone is, in fact, alone. Being contractually tied to another person—in marriage, for example—accentuates the loneliness, because you have effectively allowed the state to determine your obligations to someone, as if you can’t trust and manage your own feelings by yourself. Anyway, I see humans as essentially solitary creatures, and this is not changed by surrounding ourselves with others, because they, too, are solitary. Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Morrissey on &lt;a href="http://rookiemag.com/2013/02/this-charming-man-an-interview-with-morrissey/"&gt;marriage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/49852694650</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/49852694650</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 09:16:22 -0400</pubDate><category>morrissey</category><category>marriage</category><category>relationshapes</category></item><item><title>Anybody else getting Spader vibes from this guy? Get it Peggy.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/69c3cee6b36a06277d09afbd152f2379/tumblr_mmemn9OWSk1qzo3n9o1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anybody else getting Spader vibes from this guy? Get it Peggy.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/49819746245</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/49819746245</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:25:57 -0400</pubDate><category>peggy olson</category><category>ted chaough</category><category>james spader</category><category>mad men</category></item><item><title>"To me, sex should be motivated by what I feel, not by a formulaic mandate."</title><description>“To me, sex should be motivated by what I feel, not by a formulaic mandate.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;James Deen to &lt;a href="http://www.xbiz.com/news/162435"&gt;direct his feels &lt;/a&gt;for Evil Angel&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/49812717157</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/49812717157</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 20:03:20 -0400</pubDate><category>james deen</category><category>evil angel</category><category>porn</category><category>feels</category><category>feelings</category><category>deenagers</category></item><item><title>"The “chewing gum” analogy is a typical tactic employed by abstinence-only advocates to..."</title><description>“The “chewing gum” analogy is a typical tactic employed by abstinence-only advocates to try to scare teenagers away from having sex. And while stunts like those are often delivered to coed groups, the messaging falls harder on girls: If one person is the gum, the other person chews. It’s difficult to add a rape exemption to that kind of visual. In the case that you’re abducted, does God lend you a fresh stick?”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Elizabeth Smart speaks out against &lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/05/06/elizabeth_smart_abstinence_only_sex_education_hurts_victims_of_rape_and.html"&gt;pro-abstinence sex education&lt;/a&gt;, and how it harms victims of rape.&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/49809504374</link><guid>http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/49809504374</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 19:23:30 -0400</pubDate><category>sex ed</category><category>abstinence</category><category>elizabeth smart</category><category>rape</category><category>sexual assault</category><category>chewing gum</category><category>sex education</category><category>sex</category></item></channel></rss>
