We don't need feminism any more? So there are no girls around the world being denied an education based on their gender (tell that to Malala Yousafzai)? No girls being forced to marry men decades their senior? No sex-selection abortions or female infanticide? No women denied the right to vote, drive, own property,…

Yep, like the Feminists for Life and similar groups. Most of the 1st wave feminists were anti-abortion.

what does modern feminism mean? I am in academia (a social science) and I don't even have a clue what this means. to be fair, i don't study anything related to gender. but is it possible that many women, especially those quoted above, are far removed from the rhetoric of "feminism" and their only contact with it is…

Many people associate the word "feminist" with a certain type of 2nd wave feminism that is anti-femininity. My mom cut my hair short as a kid and refused to buy me any "girly" clothes or toys as a kid because she associated being "girly" with the awful kind of gender discrimination she faced in her youth in…

What I'd like to hear from Christian parents is how to teach modesty without causing body shame in their daughters (and sons too, but that seems to be less of a problem). This is the issue I'm having with my 6th grade daughter. I don't want her to feel like there is something wrong with her body; what I want for her…

Just because the majority of hypochrondriacs are female (let's be honest here, we all know that to be true) does NOT mean that the majority of females are hypochrondriacs.

Ditto for me and my oldest daughter. We were downright SCRAWNY until about 9, then boom. My kids don't eat much animal protein and hardly any dairy (my 3rd child is gluten intolerant and her doctor advised us to also cut out dairy as the milk protein has a similar chemical structure) so I don't even think growth…

Be glad that you didn't get the D-cups early. I was in a 34B at age 11 en route to a 34D/36C depending on brand by high school. On an otherwise petite frame so I always got the "are they real or implants?" question until I had kids and the answer became obvious.

I think it's not just obesity but something environmental like hormones in food & water (a lot of the hormones in birth control pills/patches/etc. wind up contaminating our water supply). I was downright scrawny as a kid but hit puberty on the earlier side. Ditto for my oldest daughter.

It's a myth that you need a lot of money to get married. My husband and I were totally broke when we got married. I wore an ivory lace cocktail dress purchased off-the-rack at White House/Black Market. DH wore his Army dress blues. My ring was his grandma's. DH's ring was the cheapest one that Service Merchandise…

Bingo. Presumably a higher percentage of marrieds than singles have minor children and children are EXPENSIVE!

Would it work with the style of the gown to have a black lace overlay added to the bodice? You'd need to find a decent tailor/seamstress to do it, but I bet it wouldn't run you more than $50 or so.

I am an ED survivor and I'm saying that this is what most of the girls I knew who had ED's looked like. There are some women who are naturally that slender (the good genes + healthy lifestyle) but for most women, that look isn't achievable without starving oneself.

Baylor could very well be a family name. I know a ton of boys whose first names are their mom's or grandma's maiden names. "Brigand" is just plain wrong.

You look prettier when you are surrounded by friends who are just slightly less attractive than you are. The 7 looks better in a crowd of 5's & 6's than she does in a crowd of 8's and 9's. Catty but true...

What do we think about the waify blonde: good genes + healthy lifestyle or eating disorder?

If we women stuck together and didn't go around knowingly sleeping with other women's boyfriends, fiances, and husbands, then cheating jerks would find it a LOT harder to stray. Are there innocent women who are victims of two-faced liars? Sure. But there are also a lot of true "homewreckers" who are aware that the guy…

If she is aware that he is married, then YES, she has a moral obligation to not sleep with him. There are plenty of single guys out there- go hook up with one of them instead of stealing someone else's husband!

To my ear, Brodie/Brody sounds too much like "grody".

The name I always wanted for a daughter was Isabella, after my grandma. Just my luck that it became super-popular right about the time I got to my childbearing years. Stupid pop culture- first "Days of our Lives", then it was one of the choices Ross and Rachel considered on "Friends", and then of course "Twilight".