May 2010
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The problem with the Sex and the City 2 poster →
As a friend of mine said, “They don’t look like themselves, younger, they just look like fucking aliens.”
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“Sister Margaret made a difficult judgment in an emergency, saved a life and then...”
– Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times
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More on misogyny in the Catholic church →
“Is there really a morally defensible reason for two innocents to die when one can live?”
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Reverend demands that a woman die with her baby... →
Example of a growing anti-woman trend coming out of the pro-life movement.
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A Man's Perspective on Body Image
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William Leith, a well-intentioned male journalist from UK’s Telegraph, wrote an article yesterday entitled, “Women and body image: a man’s perspective.”
He talks about a situation where a guy’s frazzled girlfriend is getting ready to go to a party but can’t find anything to wear. When she finally has a “meltdown” the guy...
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An Open Letter to Tech Conference Organizers →
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Shit My Kids Ruined →
In keeping with the idea that not all women want to have kids, this blog purports to be “the strongest visual birth control on the market today.” For those of us that want kids, this is a reminder that it’s actually a lot of hard work. For those that have kids, this might make you more appreciate of your pets, who seem to deal with the brunt of kids’… creativity.
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“If anybody, prior to my meeting and falling in love with Christine, had asked me...”
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Photo by theage.com.au
Cynthia Nixon on her partner, Christine Marinoni
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Women Who Aren't Feminists
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Everywhere I turn, women are asserting that they aren’t feminists. But for the most part these women are feminists. They believe in a woman’s right to vote. They believe in equal pay for equal work. They believe in combatting gender-based violence. They will tell you that, and then they’ll say this:
“But I like men.”
I’m going to say this once (that’s probably a...
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Mothers Struggle for Respect on Mother's Day and...
Illustration by Heidi Stevens
In her Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Amy Henry discusses the lack of respect mothers get for being mothers. She writes, “if mothering while working outside the home is a guilt-producing juggling act, and working inside it is a job for the nonambitious half-wit, why would any of us want our daughters to have children?”
It was recently pointed out...
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Elizabeth Gilbert on the Importance of Lightening... →
“Take the wrong job. Move to the wrong city. Lose your temper in front of the boss, quit training for that marathon, wolf down a truckload of cupcakes the day after you start your diet.”
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Why Don't All Women Want Kids?
In college when a friend of mine used to say that she didn’t want kids, it sounded outrageous to me. Of course she wanted kids. All women want kids. I figured she was just in her own college headspace and would grow out of it when she got older.
Then then she got older and I got older and I’m the one that grew out of my limited notions about what a woman’s role should be.
Of course all women...
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Is It Possible to Stay Happily Married?
Sandra Tsing Loh wrote a personal essay for The Atlantic about her divorce, in which she essentially throws up her hands trying to figure out how anyone can make marriage work. Her conclusion:
As far as the children are concerned, how about the tribal approach (a natural, according to both primate and human evolution)? Let children between the ages of 1 and 5 be raised in a household of...