From Girl Scouts: “Holidays and family get-togethers are a time for yummy food, sweet traditions, funny stories, and lots and lots of love. But they could, without you even realizing it, also be a time when your daughter gets the wrong idea about consent and physical affection. Have you ever insisted, “Uncle just got here—go […]
Category Archives: Fitness & Health
The Disease of Being Busy
From On Being authored by Omid Safi: “I saw a dear friend a few days ago. I stopped by to ask her how she was doing, how her family was. She looked up, voice lowered, and just whimpered: “I’m so busy… I am so busy… have so much going on.” Almost immediately after, I ran into […]
‘The RBG Workout’: 84-Year-Old Justice Might Put You To Shame In The Gym
From wbur authored by Carey Goldberg: “In photos of the sitting Supreme Court, 84-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg looks tiny compared to her colleagues, but don’t be fooled: She is “TAN,” says her personal trainer, Bryant Johnson, and “by TAN I mean Tough. As. Nails.” Ginsburg’s health has been a topic of discussion — and […]
#metoo is raising awareness, but taking sexual abuse to court is a minefield
From The Guardian authored by Amellia Gentleman and Joanna Walters: “Global fascination with the fallout from the Harvey Weinstein revelations has focused on Hollywood, as well as parallel scandals in international sport and the music industry, but the #metoo stream on Twitter has dragged attention to less glamorous workplaces, highlighting how difficult it is for women to […]
Beauty and the Invisible Beast
From Medium authored by Xyla Foxlin: “When I was a junior in high school, two boys from my almost entirely male robotics team broke into my bedroom and took pictures in sexual positions naked on my bed. They tried on my bras and underwear, played dress-up in my sleepwear, and caught it all on camera. […]
Harvey Weinstein
From Rachel Mariner: “It is 1984 and I am 17 and the University of Richmond has flown me down to their campus from Corning, New York to be interviewed for a scholarship. I think I am very cool for flying by myself and smoke in the back of the plane. My host student takes me to […]
Under New French Law, Retouched Photos Of Models Must Bear Warning Label
From HuffPost authored by Dominique Mosbergen “Photoshopping models in fashion ads has become such a norm that when companies choose not to retouch their commercials, it makes headlines. France, however, is on a crusade to change that standard. As of Sunday, a new French law mandates that any commercial photo in which the “body of the model has been […]
15 Things All Badass, Fearless Alpha-Women Do Differently from Other Types of Women
From iRelease : “Laurel Thatcher Ulrich once said that “Well-behaved women seldom make history,” and those words have been printed on paper and typed onto the internet millions of time ever since. Although it’s easy to take the phrase to mean mostly whatever you want, in truth, these words are meant to celebrate women who make […]
The Ambition Collision
From The Cut authored by Lisa Miller: “What is this midlife crisis among the 30-year-olds I know? Millennial women — at least those who reside in professional bubbles — seem to have it all. They are better educated, more prosperous, less encumbered by cultural expectations than any previous generation of women. They delay marriage (if they marry […]
Got Milk? Eleventh Circuit Holds That Discrimination Because of Employee’s Breastfeeding is Unlawful Discrimination
From Verdict Justia authored by Joanna L. Grossman: “What’s to be done with a police officer who has a baby, returns to work, and wishes to continue breastfeeding her baby? If you’re the Tuscaloosa Police Department (TPD), you might suddenly start giving her poor evaluations, refer to her behind her back with gendered slurs, or […]
