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Dora Grows Up—Stops Exploring, Starts Shopping
Yes, that toothpick-legged, sexy-haired silhouette to the right is the new Dora the Explorer. According to Nickelodeon, an older, more fashionable Dora line—“featuring fashion dolls and accessories” (sold separately)—will be released in the US in spring and marketed to tween girls. The new Dora will go to middle school in the big city and...
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Vatican To Women: The Pill Pollutes Environment, His Testes
Sometimes being a Catholic is all about ducking your head in shame and saying, "this is not my life." Because the boys in the Vatican - you know the ones, they don't have sex - have come out with another decree about the woman's body. This time, it's the way our contraceptive pill is harming everyone else, and men worst of all. As if we didn'...
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Smackdown: Barbie And The End Of The World
We planned this Smackdown awhile ago, not long after my daughter opened a Scuba Barbie for Christmas. Her grandparents, who had refused to purchase a Barbie for their own daughter, were beyond thrilled to buy one for mine. "Every girl should have a Barbie," they gushed. My wife stared at them in slack-jawed, open-mouth wonder. "What the hell...
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Smackdown: Aw, Just Let Her Have A Barbie
I used to be on the other side of this Smackdown. Bimbo Barbie wasn't prancing into my house, no way, no how. Then came Christmas. And Santa at the firehouse. And kindly volunteers in the ladies auxiliary who put a lot of time and effort into being good neighbors and buying goodies for all the little kiddies in my neighborhood. Damn them....
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Do You Have an Easy Bake Oven in Your Vagina?
Though the post is fairly long and rambly, I couldn't resist sharing this call-to-arms by Renee at Womanist Musings about lingering gender assumptions, especially by schools:"The education system seems to think that this is still 1950 and that mothers are at home with tonnes of time on their hands to participate in bake sales. This r...
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The Trouble With Britney
Did anyone else watch the Britney Spears 'For the Record' documentary the other night? It was supposed to be about her stunning return to form, but it ended up being a depressing story about a woman who has lost control of her own life. She can't choose what she eats, drive her car or leave home alone. If she wants to go on a date she has to have...
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They Say: Parenting Is More Exhausting Than Ever
I'm exhausted and I just have one child. Are you exhausted? Probably - new data shows I'm not alone. In fact, the workload of being a parent has just got worse since 1997, according to Lyn Craig, a senior research fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW. Dr Craig used Australian Bureau of Statistics data based on time-use diaries kept b...
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Progress to be Thankful For: Saudi Arabian Girl Rockers
Meet the Accolade, Saudi Arabia's first all-girl rock band. In a country where women are forbidden to drive and, not so long ago, even men were arrested for attending rock concerts, the four women in the band have piercings, tease their hair, and walk around the city with their faces exposed. And, most shockingly, they're stellar guitar pl...
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Mama’s Got a Brand New Bag
It's a common complaint, especially among new moms: things just aren't quite right down there. Childbirth can do a number on your lady parts, both temporarily (as in the immediate postpartum nightmare that is, as a friend called it, Frankenvulva) and, for some, permanently. But who would go to the extreme of a surgical solution? Apparently,...
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