The XX Factor, a fem-focused blog for Slate Magazine, is aimed at a league of powerful career-women who I dream of joining someday. Right now I'm peaking through the curtains, eavesdropping on their candid and intelligent conversations about pop-culture and politics. As they discuss the "Sugar Daddy" fantasy and whether it has any relevant place in a progressive world, I appreciate the way they bring in personal examples from their careers and family-life alike; this attitude deconstructs the antiquated rivalry between housewife and career-woman.
Imagine "the View" if it didn't run on a Disney-owned network, and you could actually hear the reasonable discourse over Elisabeth Hasselbeck's shrill blather. The XX Factor offers the sort of thorough and complex criticism of female figures in the media that women crave. Not even Tina Fey is safe.
The blog could use better organization. As it is, direct responses to previous essays are interspersed with new topics. It is difficult to figure out where topics start and end and how to escape from the current thread if it is no longer of interest. In this sense, reading the XX Factor is a lot like listening to your mom ramble on with her friends, interspersing gossip that started in 1975 with news that happened yesterday. The blog would be easier to read if direct responses were attached to the original post as comments.
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