Why won’t guys look at me? I’m 30, pretty, smart, well-educated and have a good career. I like to think I’m a strong woman (or at least appear to be strong, since I’m whining here). Yet when I go out with friends, all of whom are in relationships, guys hit on my friends,…
More women need to understand this
Those of you who still blindly use Facebook and Foursquare, please read this article and act accordingly.
Such a good lesson in privacy settings. Take the 10 minutes and go to the unpretty security pages for goodness sake!
I’d never do this to you guys though.
An article with excellent points. However, most moms have a debilitating face-filtering disease, so we need help being reminded that only we think the kid is cute. I post pics of my kids in FB, but I an aware of my illness thus try to limit them to either include the beer that gets me though or monkeys! (seriously, today there were monkeys)
Whether it’s artisanal gruyere and prosciutto, or Kraft singles and balogna slices, you can’t go wrong on grilled cheese night.
Or Brie and pear butter…
Read this. Amber Ha just fucking nails it.
Very good counterpoint. I am really happy so many are looking closely at both sides of “good intentions”.
I love Spring. Suddenly, the first week of March, the weather is perfect for sending kids outside to play, make horrific messes, bash in their orbitals with the croquet mallets, and listen to the birds’ cheerful songs until they cry that it’s keeping them awake. Wait, no, that’s not why love Spring, it’s just the result of it.
Levels - Avicii
This is the ultimate Coachella Sahara Tent dance-your-face-off guilty pleasure song.
If you tried ecstasy for the first time within the last twelve months in Europe, chances are, you were listening to some version of this catchy little fucker at the time.
I’m posting it because nothing counts on leap day.
Funny how i had to train in a billionaire’s private gym to hear this original version, otherwise I would have perhaps only known Pitbull’s “Trapper Keeper’ed” version in this musical desert. Not too proud to say how much I love both.
Last I checked, fish counts as meat. This is not a random screengrab, this is from someone I consider a friend. What bothers me is that I can’t correct her. That would be very UN-pc and I would look like the bad guy.
In the current state of the Catholic church, one would think they would try to separate the socio-economic and political ideals, that have no real bearing on how much God love’s anyone, that were inserted along the way. Fish on Friday? A decision to keep fisherman from losing money during lent in the middle ages. Now, Red Lobster earns a hefty penny for 40 days every spring.
If a church doctrine wants to maintain it’s legitimacy in the 21st century, it is going to have to re-think these odd “rules” that make a person feel guilty that she has made a healthy dinner for her family because she shopped before Lent began. It would seem prudent to get back to basics and teach love, respect, and forgiveness. Otherwise the Catholic population will continue to dwindle and become irrelevant.
We can keep the King’s cake, though, because that’s just plain fun.
Sex Ed Not Reducing Birthrates in Conservative States
Despite the presence of sex education courses, U.S. states with high degrees of conservatism and religiosity have above-average adolescent birthrates, according to a Washington University in St. Louis study reported by LiveScience. The researchers found a wide disparity in birthrates among teen girls based on their state’s degree of conservatism, ranging from 9.7 births per 1,000 girls ages 15 to 17 in liberal New Hampshire to 34.8 per 1,000 in conservative Arkansas. The study linked sex ed with lower teen birthrates, but this association disappeared in conservative states with characteristics such as high degrees of religiosity and anti-abortion policies. Researchers speculate that girls in conservative states may either get inferior sex ed, disregard the information provided, or are less willing or able to have an abortion. The United States has the highest adolescent birthrate in the industrialized world—10 times the rate in the Netherlands, which has the lowest rate in Western Europe.
ANNNNNNDD… who is surprised? With such conflicting lessons, and non-lessons, being pushed in these states, who can blame these girls? Humans have sex. Teaching responsibility seems like a conservative plan, no? Oh no, no no, much easier to serve up platitudes and expectations with no basis in reality, leaving young couples to “hide” their actions by not protecting themselves. This frustrates me so much.
So I do this now, and tomorrow I am on the Fourth Hour with Kathie Lee and Hoda. DAIQUIRI SLUUUUUURP NOISE!
Yay For Boobs!!
