You might assume I have better things to worry about than Dora the Explorer’s (link) metamorphoses into a tween fashionista as she follows her aging viewers into tween-hood. You’d be right. I’m not worried about it, but it is going to be interesting to watch the media’s influence over yet …
I Know What I Know
Oh goody another study to tell us something we already know. It may seem obvious that men perceive women in sexy bathing suits as objects, but now there’s science to back it up, one which used 21 heterosexual male undergraduates at Princeton as the standard bearer. That this “study” was …
Blogging For Choice
Today is the 36th anniversary of Roe v Wade. The theme this year, and rightly so, is “what is your top pro-choice hope for President Obama and/or the new Congress”? My hope is that our legislatures and our leader recognizes the right of a women to make decisions about her …
Dollhouses, Bikes, Purses and Cotton
Though I like inhabitat, a blog I’ve been reading thanks to both Kait and John, I found it interesting that they have a seperate gift guide for boys and girls. The girls list containing this dollhouse from playtoys. The boys list containing the PedoBike, and a cool give a goat …
Notes on Twilight and Other Civic Duties
While your chillin with the hot chocolate after your five mile run deciding if you really want to stand in line for a movie from a series of books geared toward adolescent girls, girls whose limited fantasy revolves around doing it with a vampire (the thinly disguised bad boy, different …
