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| vintage photo of Smithies in the snow! (No idea where I found this, will try to track down source) |
If you're from around the Pioneer Valley, the Advocate is now doing its voting for Best of the Valley. You have to vote for ten categories (out of 184) for your ballet to count. Vote for Oh My! for best adult shop (cuz they are) and vote for FF for best blog, if you're so inclined. :)
You've perhaps heard about Isabel Caro's death (former model, died due to complications of anorexia). She posed in an ad campaign entitled "No Anorexia" intended to bring awareness to the disease, both in and out of the modeling realm. Here's some of the debate about those ads (WARNING: Potential to be VERY triggering, and NSFW).
Long distance can work, according to the NYT.
People should talk to each other more. And really talk.
Guess what your brain loves just as much as sex? Music!
Speaking of music, I love me some Kanye, but his Monster music video is horrifying in its glamorization of dead women. Read more here, maybe sign the petition?
BeautySchooled's talking about scales this week. Do you hop on daily, weekly, never? Is it angsty or matter of fact?
If you are goal oriented like my super-Aries self, you've probably heard of 43 Things already. It's pretty fantastic, and I was looking at some of the goals on the bottom. A few (underlined in black) made me sad. But one (underlined in yellow) made me very happy (also please ignore how the image spills over the edge...I tried to fix it, I swear!).
What Google knows about men and women, gleaned from 200 years worth of books. Interesting...
Personally, I like the tote...
Are women leaving men behind? I like her point that men just need to be wise to the fact that gender roles are fluid these days, and ya'll better realize that so you can catch up. But the comments are DISGUSTING. I hate the effect of anonymity on the interwebz.
I've probably posted this before, but you know what? I don't care because it is always SO GOOD: 100 Ways You Can Start Loving Yourself Right Now.
Body Image in the Bedroom. Wish I'd written this!
"When we look at what the factors are that make life so miserable for young gays and lesbians, it’s tempting for progressives to point the finger at religious traditions that are hostile to sexual pluralism. But the young men in American high schools who are beating up other boys whom they suspect of being gay are rarely doing so in order to comply with a misunderstood dictate from the Torah or the Pauline epistles. It’s not faith that drives the hate as much as it is an overwhelming desire to establish masculine bona fides. “I torment faggots, therefore I can’t be one; I beat up queers, therefore I’m a man.” That toxic equation may be aided and abetted by conservative religion, but it isn’t rooted in it. Rather, the hateful behavior is rooted in the rigid rules of American masculinity, a masculinity predicated on a contempt for and a paranoia about even the slightest whiff of femininity among the be-penised." (read the full thing here)
Sex is not the enemy! Authentic people and their bodies and their sex and their love. I adore how happy everyone looks (so so so not safe for work)!
Much love,
The Sheriff
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