I read in a few places that yoga as it is currently taught and practiced in the west is only about 60 years old. The physical “asanas” (poses) are just one of the eight branches of yoga, which is really all about transcendental meditation. It is really to focus on breathing and asanas were developed more recently. The…

Um did anyone read that article about KidRock? YIKES. He is disgusting and pathetic and the epitome of "if my penis does not like it, it can't be any good." First he is bashing Beyonce for not having a "Purple Rain" type song (like he does) then he insinuates that she is only successful for being hot which he doesn't…

My sister forced me to throw her a pole-dancing one, where these women came to the house, set up a pole, and everyone wore workout poles. I was chagrined but once we began it was a BLAST! Had a great time, some champagne after, and did the going-out thing a different night. I was so enamored I tried to find a place…

Mmkay. I know they are at peak-skin time, they are models, etc. But it is still good, I believe, for people (not just women, men too!) to see these kind of images. Of course I know rationally that make up and photoshopping are the norm. But when we get bombarded daily with those images, I do think there is a…

I am a therapist and one of my toughest clients was a drug/sex addict in his early 20s who referred to women as "females" all the time. I tried on several occasions to explain to him why that was not an okay term. There was something....distancing about it. Like women were animals, or more specifically, a certain…

According to the stats this is a super white, upper-middle class and upper class thing. Lower SES and minorities have a pretty stellar record of vaccination. And the really insulting thing is that those personal exemption things are SO easy to get. I knew ppl when I had my first baby (not anymore) who were just…

Great post and to add on: I think a lot of it has to do with power. Feeling powerful over someone else. Feeling like you have the "upper hand" by affecting them, scaring them, hurting them, bothering them, etc. A lot of people get off on that feeling of power, especially when they don't have a lot in real life.

It sounds like she responded to some of the points your friend made, like that she did contact the management beforehand and that they did tip generously. I don't get this whole "article" or how it framed her as this terrible, clueless person....I mean, isn't there more impactful stuff to write about? The whole tone…

I think it's appalling that your private email to friends was publicized in this weird way. I thought that this "article" was going to be way more dramatic than it was. I hope you guys had fun and it sounds like you did address the things that her friend in the biz was concerned about, like tipping appropriately and…

I actually got swayed into liking them because my sister (who did a short stint working at Whole Foods juice bar) told me to add in some apple or pineapple. Just that little sweetness made the green juices realllly good! For me, at least. Most heavy duty juice people don't want to put fruit in because OMG SUGAR! Which…

Yeah watching her on the show talking about this like she's a hapless victim and this is just something terrible that *happened* to her, is infuriating. I just can't believe how delusional they are. They just act like they've done nothing wrong. She's just like, my poor family....and still with the snooty attitude. I…

I like the article and I agree with a lot of it! It seems so odd to me that men don't seem to see women as just other people. Even when they are married and spend so much time with one other woman person!! (I know this is hetero-normative...this situation appears to be what the author is analyzing).

CNN finally has a story up on this and it's....like a completely different story. The headline just says "new details on the death of mike brown" or something then leads with a couple paragraphs on the original shooting. The rest is about the riot police but....vastly different picture. For a start the very beginning…

It is a TV show that is comedic and poking fun at the Real Housewives franchise...it is parody. I can see how that would be confusing though! I want to see it actually, it has hella funny female comedians on it (Angela from The Office, the intern from 30 Rock, others whom I can't pinpoint but have seen them…

Lindy will you pretty please do more GOT material next season??! I love when you cover all things GOT.

Ah! She's lucky to have an informed and caring grandma. it depends a lot on your relationship and her personality but I think the concept of bodily autonomy and strong sense of self are really important. That and her knowing that she has caring adults who will be there for her and will be SAFE for her to talk to. I…

Sorry you went through this. Adults reacting with denial is so confusing and re-traumatising. I hope you've been able to process what happened to you.

I'm a psychotherapist, and the difference as pointed out down thread, between healthy kid exploration (playing "doctor") and abuse is when the children aren't the same play age/developmental level. That creates a power imbalance and an exploitation. So 10 and 13? Likely exploitation, because 13 is much more developed…

I know a young man who came from Guatemala in that time period (6 or 7 years ago) at the age of 13 and he nearly died. He developed a racking cough (he was transported under cargo in trucks)and got heat exhaustion something terrible. He was aided by a "coyote" who was paid an exorbitant amount of money ($7,000 I…

The presence of his female assistant I think is used as a screen to make it more plausible that it is not going to be too sexual. I think it being him and his female assistant makes it less "come over to my place and we will have some fun." Apparently she shoots away smiling and laughing and saying, Isn't this fun?…