Comments on: We named the magazine Vag because we want people to know we have vaginas...

We named the magazine Vag because we want people to know we have vaginas...

prefpara — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:05:32 -0800

Vag magazine is going to be a home for really important journalism. Rest of the series here. Sociological Images writeup here.

By: Renoroc

Renoroc — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:07:45 -0800

Maybe now all the frustrated femmes who couldn't get into the New Yorker can have their pieces published here.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:20:20 -0800

The best satire spares no sacred cows... Meghan should not have been the sole voice of reason amongst all of the characters.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:21:23 -0800

Indigo Girls? Dawson's Creek? Whoever wrote this is older than I am!

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:25:21 -0800

Did Scott Adams ghostwrite this?

By: Miko

Miko — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:28:17 -0800

Yeah....I don't think we're getting anywhere.

By: fleetmouse

fleetmouse — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:28:45 -0800

I was struggling for the right words and oneswellfoop nailed it.

By: scose

scose — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:29:06 -0800

That sure is one bad fake southern accent.

By: Miko

Miko — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:35:54 -0800

episode 2 is making me laugh a little more.

By: Bwithh

Bwithh — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:36:03 -0800

awwww.... you guys are soooooo serious! what happened? take too many cultural studies classes? women can be funny too!! this made me laugh and I think I heart Heavy Flo!!!

By: Miko

Miko — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:36:53 -0800

episode 3: wait, how did Reba get back in? She was fired.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:37:29 -0800

I wonder what the point is - do younger women even talk like this anymore? They did when I was an undergrad 20 years ago, but things appear to be so different now. Case in point: yoga pants.

By: Miko

Miko — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:38:44 -0800

do younger women even talk like this anymore? It is puzzling. It's like a 40something who interned at BUST during its first year finally got a chance to produce a web series.

By: emhutchinson

emhutchinson — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:41:50 -0800

Also, it's just not funny.

By: katillathehun

katillathehun — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:44:36 -0800

I'm actually kind of insulted on behalf of every single stereotype they lampooned. It is puzzling. It's like a 40something who interned at BUST during its first year finally got a chance to produce a web series. Exactly! I haven't gotten past episode 2, yet. Do they gush about Tom Cruise at some point?

By: prefpara

prefpara — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:45:42 -0800

I should have added a link to the main site. My mistake! (I thought it was funny).

By: Threeway Handshake

Threeway Handshake — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:52:01 -0800

This sounds like a bunch of people that took classes at UCB that somehow funded a web series.

By: oddman

oddman — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:54:30 -0800

I watched all of them and was absolutely amused.

By: Miko

Miko — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:57:20 -0800

I really do want to like this, because I'm always always always bitching that there aren't more woman doing ensemble/sketch/improv comedy, etc. And here are a bunch of women doing it, so that's nice to see. But even though some of the women have great timing and do a good job on camera, it's basically taking a perspective that aims to get laughs by laughing at vapid of women, ultimately kind of same old same old. There are lines in here I like, a structure that could really work, some glints of character, but I wish it was more truly incisive. It's suffering from that thing that causes a lot of comedy to limp when it doesn't have to - it doesn't like its own characters.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:05:48 -0800

I wonder what the point is - do younger women even talk like this anymore? They did when I was an undergrad 20 years ago, but things appear to be so different now. Case in point: yoga pants. I guess there was more "girl power" in the early 90s (case in point: lillith fair) but I'm sure there were plenty of women back then who would wear yoga pants if they were in style.

By: Lorin

Lorin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:13:02 -0800

Not bad but I think I'll keep reading Cosmotopian instead.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:49:55 -0800

it's basically taking a perspective that aims to get laughs by laughing at vapid of women, Yeah, I thought so too.

By: dagosto

dagosto — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:01:35 -0800

I think that all the negative/meh responses to this series is un-feminist.

By: NoraReed

NoraReed — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:47:11 -0800

Can someone photoshop Sylvia and her bucket into a "I haz a bukkit" pic? Thanks.

By: Secret Life of Gravy

Secret Life of Gravy — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:22:23 -0800

I really do want to like this, because I'm always always always bitching that there aren't more woman doing ensemble/sketch/improv comedy, etc. And here are a bunch of women doing it, so that's nice to see. This might be a good place to ask why do the British have a higher percentage of female comics? I listen to a lot of BBC radio (game shows mostly) and watch a fair number of Brit sit-coms and while the men still outnumber them, there are quite a few females writing and performing comedy. Do the British have a different attitude towards funny women or is it a case of less commercial-driven, more state-funded comedy?

By: Miko

Miko — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:33:16 -0800

Interesting question.

By: running order squabble fest

running order squabble fest — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:35:22 -0800

So, this is like the Portlandia sketch about the feminist bookstore, but with people from UCB New York? So, it's like... Portlandia, Maine?

By: evidenceofabsence

evidenceofabsence — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:04:10 -0800

Not as funny as I wanted it to be. But, speaking as someone who used to run into K8 Hardy's art and P5!'s cupcakes on a regular basis, it's not entirely off base. Needs more names that double as secure passwords, though.

By: clvrmnky

clvrmnky — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:55:31 -0800

Sure. Call it "Vag." Just realize that most of us will be using the word like you use the word "Dick."

By: Miko

Miko — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:12:54 -0800