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 [...]
September 11, 2012
At a bat mitzvah this weekend, a woman wore a very short sequined mini-skirt, a white wife beater and 4-inch heels. This woman had a rockin’ body. Not one ounce of flab. This woman was my age. I wore a mini as well that night. It wasn’t as mini as her mini. Hers was triple [...]
September 5, 2012
Oh, hello President Clinton and Vice President Obama. We’ve been waiting. (Image: Christian Science Monitor/Charles Dharapak/AP)
August 30, 2012
Miri’s 15-year-old Sadie and her friends began using the term “pussy up” as a replacement for “man up,” and apparently Sadie is onto a global trend. This week Slate’s Double X not only attributed the dawning of the word pussy to Pussy Riot–you know, those brave ladies from Russia–but Slate writer Lindsay Zoladz also declared [...]
August 6, 2012
Ask someone on the street, any old person will do. What does a feminist look like? Here’s my guess about what someone might say. 1. Hairy armpits 2. Aggressive 3. Liberal 4. Hates men In fact, so many women identify with this wacky version of feminism, that they’re unsure that they actually are a modern [...]
August 2, 2012
There’s a new phrase in our house and though I am rarely surprised anymore, after douche made it’s debut, I was initially taken aback. I was listening to my daughter share a sticky social situation. She felt the girl in the story was being too timid and needed to: pussy-up. take a stand, share their [...]
July 31, 2012
Guest Post, by Gail Doktor How do you know when what you want is also what you need? When they’re opposites? Want can compromise you, as much as it might entertain or satisfy you. While need is essential to survival and greater quality of life. Sometimes you mistake one for the other. A craving can become a force so powerful that it [...]
July 23, 2012
Remember how I wrote this about Katie being a victim of a cult? I’m possibly reneging. According to an interesting new article in New York Magazine breaking down the marriage of what used to be TomKat, Benjamin Wallace theorizes that Katie Holmes wasn’t necessarily brainwashed by Tom Cruise, but instead was brainwashed by fame. One [...]
July 15, 2012
Here’s how it happens with rape culture. The rape jokes get told and everyone laughs because it’s innocent. No one (normal at least) really wants to rape you or watch you get raped. And then the politicians ignorantly dismiss the need for rape prevention and counseling because it’s not a “crisis.” That rape doesn’t affect [...]
July 12, 2012
I pulled my back out on my date with the A-Hole from Bridesmaids. You know, the Jon Hamm character? A perfect storm of vanity and self-consciousness converged on a bench, when I tried to make my bare legs (100 percent humidity had me in shorts) look their best. I alternated between crossing them (bad for [...]
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September 24, 2012
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