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Life A Week in Rape Culture
Teens arrested posting a gang-rape video to the web. A prominent sports figure tweeting the name and contact information of his rape accuser. Military officials videotaping female cadets in the shower without their consent. All of these stories broke within days of each other during this last dismal week, inundating us with depressing headlines. In…
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Opinion A Woman’s Place is at Prayer — at Kotel or Upper West Side
Nearly 20 years ago I was living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a haven for observant Conservative Jews. I had my choice of multiple minyanim to attend; even the crowded weekend city streets had an air of the Sabbath, and kosher food abounded. There were so many Conservative and egalitarian options that I rarely ventured…
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Life Raising a True Beauty
Would you rather be beautiful and stupid or ugly and brilliant? Think about it for a moment. As a high-achieving high school student, I remember considering it a no-brainer: It was better to be beautiful and stupid. Today, studies have shown that people react differently to others based on looks, with attractive people benefiting in…
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Life Learning From My Bat Mitzvah, 17 Years Later
Resting on the butcher block in my Brooklyn kitchen are seven black and white napkins with the name “Caroline” written on them in a cloud of polka dots. I found the napkins — leftovers from my bat mitzvah — four years ago while combing through the attic as my parents prepared to sell my childhood…
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Life Friends First, But Family All Along
When my husband and I were dating and first began talking about having children, he said that he wanted three kids. “Three biological kids?” I asked. “Yeah. That’s what my parents had,” he reminded me, “and I like having two siblings.” “I like having one,” I replied. “Maybe we have two biological children and adopt…
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Life American Apparel Sexed-Up Gender Problem
Why did I find the image of a faceless man in a tush-in-the-air submissive pose so much more shocking than that of a woman? Have I become so saturated by ubiquitous tasteless American Apparel ads that I have become inured to just how disgusting they are? American Apparel is famous for featuring, in its advertising,…
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Life Confessions of a Disney Princess
Disney has come under fire for “feminizing” and “sexing up” Merida, the spunky Scottish princess of the Pixar film “Brave,” in order to add her to its much-maligned princess collection. Martha Kempner describes the abortive makeover perfectly: Disney changed her hair from wild curls to silky tresses that cascade suggestively over one shoulder. Her simple…
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Life Curing My iPhone Addiction
This is the third post in a Sisterhood series by Nina Badzin on gadgets, family and work. As I reported last month, I’ve made some progress in cutting my iPhone time in half. I started charging my phone in the kitchen instead of my bedroom, which eliminated any phone use in the early morning and…
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