There is a really interesting article in today’s New York Times about eight to twelve year old girls being knowledgable about raunchy, drug-laden gossip. The article talks about how younger girls, ‘tweens, who aren’t necessarily teenagers yet being cognizant of celebritiy gossip, but rejecting celebrities antics as immoral and bad for girls. Maybe […]

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…Why we think ultra-conservatives can be a little crazy, check out this video featuring a debate between a woman from a prominent pro-choice group and a woman from a prominent anti-choice group discussing a new birth control pill that completely eliminates having periods.
(Which, personally, sounds cool.)
Anyway, the anti-choice lady is sort of creepy (watch her […]

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I’m sixteen years old. It’s almost the summer before my senior year. The very last thing I want to do is spend the next few months sitting on my butt at home. But in order to attend all the upcoming summer concerts, parties and other get-togethers, I have one major obligation: get my driver’s license. […]

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… So says the Pussycat Dolls. Their newest song “I Don’t Need a Man” boldly proclaims that boyfriends and marriage aren’t requirements to be happy. They even touch on, well, female masturbation (no pun intended), singing, “I can get off when you ain’t around.”
The video is a little paradoxical, because they’re doing that […]

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I published this already with the blog I write for the Times Union, but I thought it would be worth re-posting:
So apparently the state has launched a new campaign to curb underage drinking. This is, like, really exciting, because the fact that we’re focusing on underage drinking means that we must have fixed all […]

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Hey everyone! Sorry for the lack of posts the past two days… I was in Washington, D.C. getting honored by Choice USA at their Generation to Generation Awards. I’ll be back to usual posting speed soon!

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“God hates everyone, the greatest lie ever told” I somehow found a link to a website called, godhatesfags.com. I guess urging to see how ridiculous and hateful and horrible this world is, and get that deep wretched feeling in the pit and gut of my stomach, I clicked on it. One of the links is, […]

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Horse-back riding has been a huge part of my life ever since I think I was in about kindergarten. (That’s seven years.) I got my first pony/she could be a horse named Bailey, (Brianna and I shared her,) as a surprise birthday gift when I turned 10. I almost immediately fell in love with her. […]

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I just found out about this new book that was released yesterday called “Learning Like a Girl: Educating Our Daughters in Schools of their Own,” by Diana Meehan. It’s about the perks of all-girls schools and how they have been statistically proven to cultivate leaders (plus, they tend to churn out more math and […]

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First there was Myspace. A “place for friends” quickly elevated to notoriety with reports of fourteen-year-old girls being raped and killed by men they met on the site, and our nation became immediately concerned with the welfare of our youth. So the site increased security, offering private settings so that the photos of your […]

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