It's "Zou-bisoux-bisoux, Mon Dieu qu'ils sont doux" = "Smoo-smooches-smooches! My God, they are so so sweet". And then it goes on about lovers sneaking off to meet in the bushes.

I think that the issue here is very different from that in most of the rape cases that get summarily dismissed by the legal system (ie in most rape cases).

Thanks!

A few reasons reasons:

What are the courts' position on people who drive despite conditions (e.g. narcolepsy) that make it impossible to do so safely?

With all of this complaining about our "right to bodily integrity", we're forgetting about the juicy scandals such a law could give us!

I consistently have trouble recognizing her (despite having seen Winter's Bone). I get the impression that either her face is changing quickly (which makes sense with her age, especially since she seems to gain and loose weight in her face more-so than is common), or that she is more expressive than most so that…

No, a woman - well meaning but not very bright, and very ill-informed!

Yeah - I'm pretty angry about it in retrospect (and I wish that I had had the courage/presence of mind to alert my family and get them to kick up a fuss).

What qualifies as late depends on the generation and on the socio-economic, ethnic, etc. composition of the community you are comparing yourself to, and on your family's history. The North American average is now of eleven, and a few years younger in some places.

No, that was definitely the environment at my school as well.

Taking specific symbols or practices out of context to celebrate menarche would be appropriation, sure - but I don't see how deciding to celebrate a big life-cycle event that some Indigenous cultures also happen to celebrate is appropriation.

I kind of like the idea of a party. Not something big, with friends (hello excuse to stigmatize early- and late-comers), and definitely not something connected to cheesy ideas of "womanhood" (because puberty has nothing to do with adulthood - the piece's author definitely got that right!), but something nice and…

Irrelevant fun fact: In ancient Aztec cosmologies, women who died in child-birth had the same funerary rites and same afterlife (better than commoners') as did warriors who died in battle.

Annoyed by a column meant to give women who want to do so a forum to complain about post-partum aches and pain? Don't read it!

I'm the reverse - cold drinks freak me out (especially cold water), I basically only eat things that have recently boiled.

Yes. And trying to cut down on sweets. Double deprivation, twice the temptation :(.

I guess that I'm in the extreme minority here, but I enjoy nothing more than a good mess and some unsophisticated levity, whether in my plate or on my bed. Teams 69 and pudding, all the way.

Agreed!

Fan here!