…Just FYI.

Most prime time shows aired their finales last week and we’re already missing Jess, Bob, and the gang. Now that the summer TV season is bleakly stretching out before you, a desert dotted with the skeletons of late-night informercial products and the shadows of descending Food Network personalities, we wish to offer an oasis: a reflection on what we can look forward to when prime time returns in the fall. Which network has the ladies on lock?

I want to believe this, but it is interesting because we are constantly barraged by studies saying the opposite. As the great Nora Ephron once said, “a movie about a woman’s cure for cancer is less interesting than a movie about a man with a hangnail.”

So we can all agree that the friend-zone isn’t real, right? Some “Nice Guy” complaining about how he got “friend-zoned” by a girl — because heaven knows that if a dude spends any time with a lady and does her the minium kindness like opens a door or doesn’t try to assault her, he deserves to get the sex — is pretty much the most obnoxious thing in the world but it continues happen, especially in the Internet’s darkest corners. If you hate the term “friend-zone” as much as I do, you’ll take great pleasure in this brilliant satire of the whole argument by Tumblr user literaryreference.

Don’t even waste time reading my introduction to “Women Are Bitches”; just go ahead and start Kma Sullivan’s brave and (unfortunately) too real Rumpus essay on the casual misogyny that runs rampant in literary circles and the mythical “nice guy.”

There were a lot of women giving monologues in bikinis this year.

The Cannes Film Festival opens this Wednesday and so begins the disorienting frenzy of celebrity and lavish red carpets that is awards season in Hollywood. There are twenty-one films being screened in competition this year, from the new Coen brothers movie that inexplicably features Justin “Stinky” Timberlake (#NeverForget) to Ryan Gosling’s highly-anticipated second collaboration with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn.

So today’s “Read of the Day is actually more of a “Watch of the Day” and warning: it is terrible.

Sexist people wear skinny jeans too.

if you got it, flaunt it.