February 2012
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January 2012
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My Op Ed in The Christian Science Monitor About... →
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Happy 39th Birthday Roe Vs. Wade
It’s Blog for Choice Day 2012.
Reproductive rights are some of the most important rights American women have but the war on women has shown us that they are not guaranteed.
If you haven’t been keeping up, here is a list of ten ways in which Republicans are attacking women.
And here is a simple chart explaining why the right to have an abortion is still so important. Short...
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What's Wrong With "Marrying Down"?
Sady Doyle wrote a great article about the ways in which women journalists writing about feminism, like The Atlantic’s Kate Bolick, still do so from a wealthy, white perspective. They “focus on the ladies’s-magazine variety of female concerns,” she writes, “motherhood, marriage, dating.”
Doyle takes issue with Bolick’s idea that only wealthy women are...
Jessica Valenti: Why The Washington Post's new... →
jessicavalenti:
Here’s the thing: I will always want more women’s (and feminist) voices in the mainstream media, particularly in politics. There’s an overwhelming byline gender gap and that needs to change. But The Washington Post’s new lady blog, “She the People,” is not a step in the right direction….
Feminist Ryan Gosling →
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Depression and Anxiety
Giulietta Masina in Federico Fellini’s “Nights of Cambria”
Women are more likely to experience depression and anxiety than men. One theory about this is that women are more likely to express these feelings than men. My personal theory is that men have lower standards for happiness than women so they’re less likely to think of depression as an abnormal negative emotion....
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A 2012 New Year's Resolution: Help Three Women
My New Year’s resolution is to help other women.
Just about every woman on the planet needs help with something, I’d like to aim to help at least three in the month of January and keep that trend going for the rest of the year.
If you want to join me, start by sharing this post. Let’s all get in the habit of thinking of how we can better help each other. Women who ask for our...
December 2011
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11 Funny Tweets from 2011
@mollymcnearney I don’t like that my mom has updated her Facebook page 3 times in the last two days but has not returned my phone call.
@kellyoxford My daydream solution to organizing my house is always arson.
@shinyunicorn ”I’m not sure you should admit that out loud” is probably one of the top five most common things people say to me.
@LexiJulia All the kids who...
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The Best Thing You've Read All Week, If Not All... →
Now get on Twitter and tell @hugoschwyzer how wonderful he is.
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“No man is in any real physical danger on the internet— or even in real life —...”
– Hugo Schwyzer, on the use of the term “male bashing”
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Is New Girl Getting Better?
I want to like New Girl. I haven’t missed an episode this season. It is kind of funny. It is original. But Zooey Dechanel, or Jess (though it always sounds like she’s saying “Joss!”), so often comes across as a mentally challenged child, that I find the show to be as unbearable as it is entertaining. Not only does it feel like a live action version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with Jess...
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Jewelry Gifts for the Holidays
The holidays are upon us and people are still shopping for last minute gifts!
The following unique pieces of jewelry (and who doesn’t like jewelry?) all come from women-owned super small businesses (except for Roxbury Jewelry, which is owned by my brother and cousin). Amazon has enough business, give these guys a try:
DaisyDreamsinColor Pharoah Earrings $25
MagpieHoney Milk and Cookies...
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Where Have All The Real Women Gone?
Someone on Facebook just posted this photo again today. For those of you that haven’t seen it, two years ago model Lizzie Miller posed naked for Glamour Magazine looking normal, which is to say she had a gut. It wasn’t strategically hidden. It wasn’t Photoshopped. She had a gut, like pretty much every other woman on the planet. And apparently revealing her gut in one little photo resulted in...
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“You start losing your misogyny when you realize the world is dominated by the...”
– Bret Easton Ellis
November 2011
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8 Obnoxious Cliches about Men, Women and Sex in... →
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The Importance of Comprehensive Sex Education →
Photo from verynoice.com
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Republicans Are Now Saying That All Women Are... →
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Models Are Getting Younger
Lottie Moss photo by Fashion Copious
From a Daily Beast article about Kate Moss’s 13-year-old aspiring model sister, Lottie:
This year, high-end fashion labels have embraced pretty young things like never before. Though runway models have an age minimum of 16, there are no regulations that dictate age in editorial spreads and ads. As The Daily Beast first reported, Miu Miu chose Hailee...
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The New Girl: Unsexy And Sexist →
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On Anonymous Misogynistic Blog Comments →
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A Rabbi and a Minister Respond to Personhood →
Photo from Persephone Magazine
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An Elegant Statement on Race, Class and Gender in...
A group walking through “Like A Patient Etherized Upon A Table: MOCA Goes Dark” via Twitter
My husband and I went to an event at MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles) last night where small groups of people at a time walked blindfolded throughout the museum. We would walk a few steps, following the sound of jangling keys until it stopped. Then a museum security guard (a...
October 2011
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Just Click On It
I went to a screening of PBS’s “Women, War and Peace” at the Feminist Majority Foundation in Los Angeles this week, followed by a conversation between Mavis Leno, Gayle Lemmon and Katherine Spillar. It was my first feminist event in LA and I assumed the crowd wasn’t going to be as hardcore as the feminist crowd in New York, but I could not have been any more wrong. It was possibly the most...
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Important (From NARAL)
It’s a terrifying thought: being pregnant and facing a serious illness or injury.
What if your doctor told you that the situation was so serious that continuing your pregnancy would place your life at risk? It would be tragic, but you’d probably want the very best health care, to have all of your options available, and to be treated as quickly as possible.
Now imagine being rushed to the...
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“When you see the women activists, don’t you all think there is no more...”
– Mavis Leno
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Changing My Name
The thing that has surprised me most about marriage so far is that everyone assumes that I’m changing my name. Even in this day and age. Even living in the fairly liberal city of Los Angeles. Cards were addressed to us as Mr. and Mrs., I received a monogrammed robe with my new monogram, someone even sent us a large metal front of the house sign customized with my husband’s last name.
It’s not...
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A Saudi Court Sentenced a Woman to 10 Lashes for... →
So let’s not get too excited about women getting to vote and run for office there in 2015, which, btw, isn’t exactly tomorrow.
September 2011
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An Open Letter to College Dudes About How to Have... →
Photo from blog.travelpod.com
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Cool Article by Miranda July About How Activism is... →
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Three Free Ways You Can Help Women (in Under a...
Stand up and be counted on the following petitions:
Tell the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and President Obama to pass the Access to Birth Control Act (H.R.2659/S.1415). This act requires that pharmacy employees provide a customer a contraceptive without delay if it is in stock, or immediately inform a customer if the contraceptive is not in stock, and either...
August 2011
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“Many women who get pregnant are blasted out of their minds when they have sex....”
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Fox News host Bill O’Reilly
Petition Fox News to employ some journalistic standards, just as a change of pace.
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Portraits of White Men, or Apple's Top Executives →
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The Most Obvious Way to Eat Healthy - Sponsored...
Thanks to SUBWAY® restaurants for sponsoring my post about summer fun. Check out the Kids Eat Free program at any LA area location! Just purchase any two subs, two sides and two drinks, and you can get a kid’s meal FREE!
Today I’m writing a sponsored post answering the following question: It’s hard to eat right and get your recommended daily allowance of fruits and vegetables. How...
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“That is a medical problem versus a choice to have sex.”
– Fox News host Sean Hannity arguing that insurance companies should cover Viagra but not birth control
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Three Things to Think About
Photo by ianhall.wordpress.com
From The Nation:
Although teenagers in more progressive schools may learn how to slide a condom onto a banana, they rarely learn how to access birth control conveniently and affordably… At the end of a typical course, many students know that they can “go to the movies” or “play soccer” instead of having sex, but they do not know what to do in case their...
July 2011
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One country finally starts cracking down on overly... →
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Generalizations and Idiocy
Photo by HBO.com
I recently read an acquaintance’s note on Facebook that included this observation: “…on the whole, women are not as funny as men.”
I immediately countered: “Joan Rivers. Carol Burnett. Bette Midler. Roseanne Barr. Whoopi Goldberg. Tracey Ullman. Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Janeane Garofalo. Margaret Cho. Chelsea Handler. Wanda Sykes. Sandra Bernhard. Sarah Silverman....
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“The Smurfs are named for traits, like Brainy, Gutsy & Smurfette - whose...”
– Sarah Silverman via Twitter @sarahksilverman
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“My whole life I was taught that it was okay to call a woman a bitch once you get...”
– Snoop Dogg, after being married for 14 years to his high school sweetheart, with whom he has three children
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“Tis’ better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
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Happy to be a Girl →
Photo from sjoggiestahmer.blogspot.com
June 2011
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What Walmart and Brett Easton Ellis Don't Have in...
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I went to a reading by Brett Easton Ellis recently where he mentioned, without a hint of apology, that he was a misogynist. He said it the way someone might say that he was a vegetarian or an atheist.
I was confused at the time about what that said about me, being someone who reads, watches and observes everything from a feminist perspective on one hand, and a die hard...