26,000 attempts of sexual assault occurred in the military this year, says a new report released by the Pentagon yesterday. Worse, the leader of the Air Force’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit (yes, you read that right), Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, has been charged with “misdemeanor sexual battery” by the Arlington County police. His face [...]
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 [...]
June 14, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012: NPR has Sandusky’s trial analysis on every a.m. talk show. According to an expert on men in prison, there is a huge number of men clogging the penal system who have histories of sexual abuse. All those men, untreated for sexual abuse. All those men with huge violent wounds. And while I [...]
May 21, 2012
I didn’t forget. I just didn’t go back. I went twice. Once for the initial shock and the following week for the glory of lost pounds. Then I got busy writing, walking my dog, doing the laundry and micromanaging the lives of my children. I’m busy, busy, busy. Oh, and then I work a little [...]
April 18, 2012
The Feminist Breeder, Gina Crosely-Corcoran, told the world of women bloggers to stop bashing each other after a series of snarky commentaries about placenta eating, endless nursing and pre-chewing a baby’s food. I loved her post so much I’m going to lift an entire paragraph here: Because, seriously, what’s the point? I’m all for spreading [...]
February 23, 2012
I feel like Kanye West. You know, the moment where he stood on national television and said: “George Bush hates black people.” And though I’m not convinced that the entire GOP hates women, I wonder about their current political strategy considering the multiple attacks on women’s rights over the past few weeks. How about a [...]
July 28, 2011
Mom friend and breakup stories are everywhere these days, and to add to the list is an interesting essay on Babble “Why is making friends with other moms so hard?” On my son’s first day of kindergarten, there was an element of who will I sit with at lunch mentality. This anxiety was not coming from my [...]
June 28, 2011
And we all thought the female orgasm had to do with technique. Little did we know that it has to do with the shape of your mouth, particularly, the little soft spot just in the center of your upper lip called the tubercle. According to a paper published last week by the Journal of Sexual Medicine [...]
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