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Grand Rounds: Dissecting Grey's Anatomy: P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
This week on Grey’s Anatomy: transplants, gauche moves, more baby drama, and big decisions for some of our characters! Did Meredith make the right choice? Is Alex riding for a fall? Who wants to place a bet on how the Mark/Callie/Arizona love triangle will end?All this and more,... Read more »
No Kidding: Barbara and Oprah Admit it Ain't Always Easy
Oprah and Babs talk about how tough it is to have kids as a working woman—or in Oprah’s case, the unambiguous lack of regret in regards to opting out. Skip to 7:30 in the video, where the discussion about having kids starts. Transcript after the jump.
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Race Card: An English-Only America?
Iowa Rep. Steve King reportedly plans to reintroduce a bill that would make English the official language of the U.S. The bill would require those trying to become naturalized U.S. citizens to be... Read more »
"Skinny" Diet Pepsi: At Fashion Week, Even Cans are Too Fat
Fashion Week starts today, and Diet Pepsi has a big fat announcement! From their latest press release:
In celebration of... Read more »
No Kidding: Where's My "No Baby" Shower?
When I think about the idea of celebrating children, I come back to the same question again and again: Why shouldn't an intentional choice be celebrated? When feminists talk about reproductive justice, it's often within the context of not just the ability to, say, have an abortion, but to raise a... Read more »
Race Card: Egypt
If you're a dark-skinned black woman in Egypt, you're likely to be sexually propositioned by men and slighted by women there. At least, that's what African-American journalist Sunni Khalid observed during his three years in... Read more »
No Kidding: Jillian Michaels is Not "Doing That" to Her Body
Last year, Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels got into some natalist hot water when, in an interview with Women's Health, she was quoted out of context when she said, "I'm going to adopt. I can't handle doing that to my body. Also, when you rescue something, it's like rescuing a part of... Read more »
No Kidding: Why is It "Selfish" to Be Childfree?
In my opinion, the strangest persistent belief about childfree women is that we're selfish. From the jump, this is problematic as this logic negates the experiences of infertile women, women ambivalent about motherhood and parenting, and women who would—for any number of reasons and because of any... Read more »
Race Card: The Racial Divide in the Reaction to Halle Berry
Which one is uglier: Halle Berry's custody battle or the public's reaction to it? The more comments I read on the web about Berry's fight for custody of daughter, Nahla, the more I'm convinced of the latter.
Make no mistake. I... Read more »
No Kidding: Jennifer Aniston, We Hardly Know You
Is there any famous childless woman whose fertility is as scrutinized as Jennifer Aniston's? In the past five years, since she and Brad Pitt split up so he could go build a global village with Angelina Jolie (a topic worth an entire blog series of its own if you ask me!), how many times do you... Read more »
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