I wish my biggest sin was pantyhose-related.

This doesn't really surprise me. I was shot in the back during a semester living in Egypt in 2002. I remember every single moment of being on the X-Ray table. Having my period saved me from the X-Ray tech's wandering hands, but it was terrifying. When I went to have the wound examined, three days later, the nurse tore…

She is really stunning. Such a classy, healthy, lovely young woman with a wonderful, supportive family. Her parents and her siblings deserve much of the credit for helping her to overcome the damage that was done to her and help her blossom into such an outstanding role model.

Ditto!

Awesome! I'm glad to hear that things are changing. From what I've read recently, it *does* sound encouraging and I actually was invited to lecture on "Women in the Middle East" to a council event where I live locally. I wish I had the time to volunteer to be a troop leader. Post-Ph.D. that's definitely going to be a…

I stopped going to Girl Scouts when it was clear that it wasn't keeping pace with how American girlhood was changing. My priorities and the priorities in my Girl Scout handbook did not align and I wasn't learning anything at camp either, other than how to bake a peach cobbler in an aluminum foil-covered box. (The…

That actually makes me feel better. One less childhood trauma assuaged. Thank you.

I grew-up in Massachusetts and there's also a law that bans sex on Sundays that's still on the books. Massachusetts thinks it's beyond Puritanism, but it isn't: new packaging, but SAME GREAT TASTE!

I might get my dissertation written faster if a weekly episode of this trans-Atlantic train wreck is an incentive to get chapters written/revised.

I wish I could just read about Kate's clothes all day and not read about her fertility issues, what colour and consistency her sh*t is, and what all the gossip-mongering trash can dig-up on her, etc. Maybe it's because she's a contemporary, but I just feel kind of bad for her. Anyway, in my not-so-professional…

The smug sense of satisfaction that we all got to choose our universities while Saudi women didn't needs to end. What we as university educated women share with Saudi women who are also university educated is the PRIVILEGE of receiving a university education.

Ugh, THANK YOU for pointing this out... just what the world needs is people confusing "Sunni" with "Shari'a."

I love that the wives and Osama's stash are getting more press lately than anything else related to his assassination. How many times have we seen the public, hyper-religious, hyper-conservative with something that society publicly decries as deviant. (See Ted Haggard for a recent example). What interests me most…

There are books that haunt me like "Stone Butch Blues," "In Cold Blood," and "A Thousand Splendid Suns," but for books that made me cry, well... "The Christmas Day Kitten" by James Herriot may be be a children's book, but I was bawling by the end.

Way to simultaneously piss away your money AND your kid's self-worth.

My boyfriend is a second-year law student at a top East Coast law school. I'm A.B.D. with three Master's Degrees and I double-majored in college. When all is said and done, we'll both be making magic beans until he makes partner and even though I'm more educated than he is, in the long-term he'll still make more…

"My education did not affect who I wanted to date, but it certainly affected people's perceptions of who was available for me to date."

Bravo. x

I worked in Women's Affairs and Social Institutions at the Embassy of Afghanistan. I spent a lot of time working on reports about girls' education, studying statistics, and assisting in keeping Afghanistan in the public eye. This is the kind of thing that makes people hesitant to support legitimate NGO's that are…

Barbie scapegoating: how original. I would give this project a B+ and not an A, simply because this isn't original at all, but it warrants points for creating a life-size version without the aid of Photoshop. Mapping-out Barbie's proportions has been done MANY times before, however the BBC came close to Slayen's…