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May 14, 2012
The afternoon before the prom there was a flutter of activity. I sensed the excitement from my office, knowing the prom was the source, I dug harder into my work. I would not be corrupted. Right about then, my daughter burst in, she’d accompanied an older girlfriend to a tanning salon! A tanning salon?!? [...]
Just as Vogue announced a ban of under-aged and thinspo-leaning models from its pages–a “triumph” according to Slate’s Libby Copeland–Seventeen magazine shut down 14-year-old Julia Bluhm, a ballet dancer who attempted to convince Seventeen magazine to hire “real” models instead of using photoshopped girls. Bluhm, who supplied Seventeen editor Ann Shoket with 25,000 signatures, was [...]
I was only 16 when the Beastie Boys came to the (now defunct) Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey. A die hard Beasties fan during that time–I’d flip flop between pretending Adam Horovitz “Ad-Rock” was my boyfriend or that I was Ad-Rock in my fantasy all-girls rap band–and a slew of my guy friends who [...]
Fifty Shades of Grey, international phenomenon, was a woman’s mid-life crisis come to life in words on the page…here she talks about her shock and maybe a tad of embarrassment, about her wildly successful trilogy: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Yesterday in Salon, Tracy Clark-Flory wonders why Obama’s addition of a new sex-ed abstinence plan isn’t getting more flack. The addition which was regulated by Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education, according to RH Reality Check, “contains little or no information about puberty, anatomy, sexually transmitted diseases, or sexual behavior,” or does it “include information about the health [...]
Regret is bad for your health. There’s a part of your brain that lights up and your hormones are elevated and not in a good way. But, as my office mate just asked me, “How the hell do you not have regret? It’s a useless emotion but, still. We all have regret…” Indeed. In [...]
I’m not sure which part of the interview on yesterday’s Meet The Press is more insulting. When republican strategist Alex Castellanos tells Rachel Maddow that he really “loves how passionate” she is on the topic of women’s pay disparity or when he consistently interrupts her by insisting that women don’t make as much as men [...]
With Miri’s post last week about her patchouli-wearing plumber’s advice (i.e., “Don’t share your snake with your neighbors”), my mind immediately started thinking about body parts. Maybe it’s because I’m due to read 50 Shades of Grey so we can hold this book club I’ve been touting. So I better get on some Monday morning [...]
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