This reminds me of the Modesty Survey ([www.therebelution.com] ), which was a series of questions created by "Christian" women and girls for "Christian" men and boys to answer regarding "Christian modesty" in dressing. The phrase they used for "gives me a boner" was "stumbling block." That always cracked me up, and I…

Whoa, whoa whoa! People are wearing make-up to work now? When did this start?

There's definitely something cult-like about these people, you can see it in the language: the phrase "turned against us" is used twice by two different people.

Preach! I'm so sick of seeing useless aid-vanity projects being started by celebrities who think they understand poverty because they talked to a malnourished child once. You want to help? Find an established organization with professionals who've been doing it for years and Maybe you'll get results. You want to play…

No, I find it incredibly easy to attack clueless celebrities who think their brand and money will solve problems that national governments and aid groups have been laboring for centuries to solve.

So the trailer was the best part of the movie? Bummer.

I miss Central Asian/Russian yogurt. You could buy ayran fresh from the Sut/Moloko lady at 7 in the morning! Or Chudo (which is Russian for "miracle"), a cheese-cake like yogurt with cherries on top that I could only afford once a week. Or the drinkable, fruit-flavored Kefir in the little milk cartons that I lived on…

Betcha her mom gets her electrolysis treatments on her vulva at age 12, when her pubic hair inevitably begins to develop. Or, retaining some faith in humanity here, mom *tries* to get the electrolysis and the licensed tech refuses to do it and reports it to CPS. Assuming she hasn't lost custody of the girl by then, of…

I've read several books about the early history of Judaic monotheism, but not many focusing on the pantheons that the Israelites discarded along the way. Your question prompted me to look for such books, something I've meant to do for a while.

Not even remotely news. Asherah and the rest of the Canaanite pantheon have been well-known to archeologists and historians for decades. The text of the very first commandment mentions "other gods," a statement that makes zero sense in a monotheistic universe. The evolution of El to Yahweh the storm god to Jehovah,…

My mother is a pretty stylish lady, but she never really focused on teaching me anything about make-up, hair or other traditional feminine "beauty" performance. And I was a bookish, nerdy girl who hung out with bookish, nerdy boys and girls in my class, so I never learned that stuff from other girls either.

In my experience, the most virulent misogynists are usually women.

You want a kid's cartoon with tons of strong female characters? "Avatar: The Last Airbender" has everything you want and more. Motherly, occasionally shrewish, but brave Katara, strong and stoic "I-don't-care-what-people-think" Toph, cheerful, energetic Ty-Lee, morose but deadly Mai, fierce fighter Suki, even…

Oh yeah, total myth. If you'll pardon the mental image, an "empty vagina" is not any kind of "hole" in three dimensions. A vagina at rest, if you will, is merely skin folded against itself. An aroused vagina tends to expand and dilate a little, but not to the degree that it wouldn't still feel tight if a finger, (much…

It only took three years, but we finally know which of the explanations for the gendercide was the correct one. Thanks, Science! This has bothered me ever since that interview when Vaughan was all cheeky: "We said we'd tell you, but we didn't say *when* we told you."

This really isn't news, and I'm more than a bit shocked that the news story quoted above was so thin on actual evidence of this phenomenon. Quick trip around the internets yields several articles pointing this out, with apples-to-apples comparisons:

I'm the same age. I was offered the HPV vaccine for free in Peace Corps four years ago and of course said, "Hells, yes!" I came down with HPV anyway (high risk, yay!) probably from the very first guy I slept with when I got back to the States.

Mmmm, those Georgia Republicans love them some small government, don't they?

Without more information about what these kids are drinking, how often, with whom, and how much, this is pretty meaningless data. I agree that letting kids drink Smirnoff Ice in the backyard is irresponsible parenting, because no one should be drinking that malt liquor sugar water crap.

I've said it before: Republican Party, do you think because you shake your finger at women and say "Bad! Bad! Baaad!" they will suddenly realize the error of their ways? Abortion has existed as long as human pregnancy. If you make it harder to get one legally, cheaply, and safely, women will get them dearly, illicitly…