If you are friends with me on Facebook, you will know that my header is a photo of Winona Ryder’s character, Veronica, from Heathers. Veronica was my anti-hero in high school. She stood up to the mean girl, the meanest of them all, Heather “Fuck me gently with a chainsaw” Chandler, by accidentally icing [...]
March 25, 2013
Anyone else suffering? Last night was the first night without the show I love, tire of, return to, much like a friendship. I’m an ambivalent fan and then I’m a huge fan, in the course of one episode. I’ll wonder, can I stand Hannah’s hypochondria, Shoshanna’s style sense, Marni’s identity crisis? Is Adam a [...]
September 24, 2012
Over the weekend, a friend and I talked about… friendships. We headed straight for the issue: understanding people. I had my own questions about friends. Women move out of each others lives. We’re too busy to maintain the friendship. We grow apart. We have different interests. Just the night before, other friends, friends who I’ve [...]
August 8, 2012
Do the people who knew us when, know us better than the people who know us now? Maybe. On Saturday family friends visited. Old friends, from way, way, way back when I was growing up in Vermont. They came inside our house with two gifts: A book and toilet bowl cleaner. They know me like [...]
April 25, 2012
I can’t believe I’m disagreeing with Miri, because I don’t think we’ve ever disagreed, but HBO’s Girls, to me, is funny. As in LOL fucking laugh out loud uncomfortable disgustingly funny. Granted, I’m more with the gyno at the end who said “You couldn’t pay me enough to be 24 again.”–Lena Dunham shows the nasty [...]
March 22, 2012
UPDATE #2: According to Jezebel, Pinterest banned self-harm boards–i.e., that means you Thinspo boards. UPDATE: For anyone confused about why I chose a photo of a girl who looks “healthy thin” as opposed to a girl who is “anorexic thin”–I personally didn’t want to encourage pro-ana photos by pointing out a romanticized version of an [...]
March 20, 2012
Dear Miri: I don’t like my BFF’s new love interest. Do I tell her that I think the person seems emotionally unavailable? I’m not the only one of our friends who feels this way. Or do I keep quiet, and hope it doesn’t last? Or give it more time and cross my fingers, hoping that [...]
February 28, 2012
The other day my daughter and her friends were talking about what they would be when they grew up (surgeon, teacher, geneticist, dancer, photographer), where they would live (Boston, California, England) and how many children they’d have (three was the average). Part of growing up is imagining your future. The girls lined up their anticipated [...]
February 27, 2012
Though women generally cut off friendships so that it’s not so obvious, a new finding has emerged in the world of Facebook. Defriending is trending. According to a new Pew study, via CNet, women–at least 63 percent–are deleting friends. Pew found that 67 percent of women set their profiles so that only their “friends’’ can [...]
December 30, 2011
In July 2011, we began our discussion here at Femamom. Yes, only 6 months ago! We opened up the conversation with you (along with some amazing contributing writers) and found the most enlightening discussions in return. (We also found a few assholes, but only a few! Truly.) We hope that some of our topics engaged [...]
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