come on, skinny love: body shaming goes both ways
CW: Self-harm, body shaming, body image issues, etc. This is a guest post. So here’s how it is: Over the past few months I’ve been seeing a lot of people actively campaigning against fat-shaming, which...
View Articleamerica’s sex ed supports rape culture
Hey! So this semester I have a weekly column on sex and gender issues at the Brown Political Review. This post originally appeared over there. For more badass political knowledge, check out BPR! Sex-ed...
View Articleit turns out i’m not dateable
Oops! In fact, I am totally dateless. Here, look, there’s proof (thanks to website-of-horrors, rudateable.com, founded by motivational speaker and noted misogynist Justin Lookadoo): The awkward thing...
View Articlepros and cons of going to the gynecologist
Time to visit the gynecologist? Eek. Your thoughts are probably racing over a million different pros and cons. Let me map out a couple for you: Cons: The fear: No matter the reasons for your trip to...
View Articleworth checking out: dear kate
Gross conversation time! But it comes with a discount code at the end! If you’re one of my male readers, you can stop reading right now because this post is going to confuse and upset you! We’re going...
View Articlespoiler alert: the wolf of wall street
So I saw The Wolf of Wall Street last night. And it was a pretty good movie! The rest of this post is going to be full of spoilers, so if that bothers you, stop reading. I’ll wait. Okay. Can we talk...
View Articlelies told by at least one female
A twitter hashtag is going around, getting people all riled up. It’s called #liestoldbyfemales and it’s largely sexist bullshit. Shit like “Tell me the truth, I won’t get mad” and “No I’m not jealous!”...
View Articleon banning bossy
So Sheryl Sandberg, the patron saint of leaning in, has handed down a new commandment from the mount: Ban “bossy”. (I had to convince myself not to write “excommunicate ‘Bossy’ from your vocabulary.” A...
View Articlearies birthday beauty bash
Hey friends, it’s a giveaway! See, I’m turning 22 in a couple weeks. And a few of my other friends at the Her Campus Blogger network have birthdays and such around this time as well. So instead of...
View Articleyet another blog post about the isla vista shooting
I guess this is how our nation copes with tragedies now. Hashtags. Twitter monologues. Blog posts. I wasn’t going to write one, I guess, but then I read this Thought Catalog article and it made me so...
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