In the title of this piece I use the terms boys and girls; but what I am really talking about is men and women. Something about Facebook etiquette though makes me think of a school playground, so the title seems appropriate. What is Facebook etiquette? I don’t think any of us know yet, as social media is […]
Lately I have found myself frustrated with other feminists over the cry of “Slut-shaming“. Although I agree that women have been unfairly judged for their sexual appetites and behavior for hundreds of years, I also think that some sexual behavior actually hurts the cause of feminism. We shouldn’t return to the days of corsets, ankle […]
So any regular readers of this blog already know, I am a straight spouse. A straight spouse is a person who married someone who they thought was straight only to find out years later that their partner was actually secretly gay. My marriage was smoke and mirrors of lies, deception and ultimately betrayal. From the […]
I graduated college at the age of 23. I was living in Chicago Illinois and working as a stage actress. My pay was low and my job did not provide health insurance, although it was a professional union theater. I also had any number of part-time jobs but none of them provided me with health […]
The Catholic church has already spent upwards of $2 billion on child sex abuse scandals so I guess spending money on lawyers for this is nothing new for them. I read an article yesterday about how some Catholic institutions are suing the Obama administration over the proposed birth control mandate. As it stands, religious organizations […]
I am completely floored by the current debate over the health care mandate requiring health insurance companies to pay for birth control and religious freedom. For starters no one is arguing that men receiving a prescription for the erectile dysfunction drug fill out any forms or prove that they are married or using the drug […]
OK so regular readers of this blog know that I have a very popular entry with the title Dating After Divorce in a City of Sluts That one article completely changed the course and direction of my life, got me international press and indirectly a literary agent. When I used the term, I used it […]
Why I have to print this is beyond me. But it is a well known standard practice to filter comments on a blog. The Huffington Post filters every single comment, and then even has an option for a other readers to “FLAG AS ABUSIVE” any comment deemed inappropriate. Anything that is a direct attack to […]
