I'm jumping up here on my Feminist podium again for a minute: I got into a convo. with my brother a couple of days ago about how Women are treated in our society -he seems to feel that I'm full of it, that women aren't treated badly -hell, we've got women in high places in the gov't, what the hell else could we want?! And he brings up how men are ( Read more... )

What do you do to empower yourself? Do you hole up and read, sing, dance? Do you go out and surround yourself with nature or other women?

Please, share with me...

YOU ARE 'ALL' BEAUTIFUL AND STRONG, INDEPENDENT WOMEN!!!!
Check out this wonderful and awesome site: http://operationbeautiful.com/

I'm definitely wanting to give this a go at my new job.:)

Alright...I just finished watching a re-run of the "The Closer" on TNT starring Kyra Sedgwick..


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So, on the heels of my last feminism-post: (I want to call these my "Fem-positive posts", from now on... just changed my 'Feminism' tag to "Fem-positive posts!".)

I was talking to my boyfriend of 10yrs. lastnight about this article regarding cheating spouses and the top 10 reasons their women stay. According to a poll, 75% of women stay with ( Read more... )

Was reading this article I found somewhere online, What Men Notice First About A Woman and I love these two replies:

By user Odette
"ROFLMAO! Here's what I've learned: Forget OTT "high maintenance." What attracts men the most? Money; Success; Intellect; Joie de vivre; A beautiful personality that radiates from within regardless of what you look ( Read more... )

My fiancee likes to pick out his "Word of the Day" from http://www.urbandictionary.com/ every couple of days and read it to me. He also likes to sit and read http://www.fmylife.com/tops/flop to me, too. (just to show it's ( Read more... )

So, I just woke up from a nice, warm nap and while I was making myself something to eat, I started thinking about the attitudes still directed toward Women today, how far we've come since Women's Suffrage, and why we are still where we are ( Read more... )

Ironically, of all places, I found my way to this particular subject via a post in a MAC cosmetics forum here in LJ, which mentioned an article in a paper about MAC funding a program to distribute 'female condoms' to help fight the spread of diseases such as HIV/AIDS in D.C ( Read more... )

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