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This is horrific. Absolutely horrific. Please do what you can to raise awareness of and condemn this situation. Read more on CNN: Activist: Iranian mother of two to be stoned to death I heard about this from Jessica Gottlieb. Read her post They Are Going To Throw Small Stones At Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani for her [...]
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If you are like many women, your breasts may not what they used to be. That’s life. The media gives the impression that we should remain perky forever. A lot of women, however, find that their breasts start to sag over time. But what is the cause? A number of studies have been done on [...]
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When I was pregnant with Emma, I started having regular contractions much earlier than I should have. I was worried I might be in early labour and went into the Labour and Delivery clinic at hospital where my prenatal care provider was and where I was due to have my baby. As I sat waiting [...]
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Last week, Margaret Wente from the Globe and Mail wrote an article about the nightmare gender gap in Canada. She concluded by saying: Unfortunately, these issues won’t be honestly addressed so long as the old-time dogma maintains its stranglehold in academe, labour groups and public discourse. It’s hard to change the conversation when the oppression [...]
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Is this how the world sees moms? It is how the New York Times sees them. Jennifer Mendelsohn wrote an article in the New York Times on mom bloggers, called Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy Building My Brand. I thought about writing a parody about journalists in response to it. But then I [...]
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After posting about Disney princesses yesterday, I was chatting with Rebecca from A Little Bit of Momsense and she pointed out that she was She-Ra for Halloween when she was little. I responded saying that I was once Wonder Woman. The conversation got me thinking about the female heroines of my youth and I realized [...]
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My partner is a stay-at-home dad and he sometimes fills me in on the deep conversations he has during the day with our little girl. Ones like this: Emma: Daddy, what are you thinking about? Daddy: I’m thinking about putting the tiles on the backsplash. What are you thinking about? Emma: I’m always thinking about [...]
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Most days, I’m proud to be Canadian. Whether I’m talking about our health care system, our maternity and parental leave programs, feminist leaders, or other topics close to my heart, my country usually makes me proud (even if it isn’t perfect). Today, however, my heart sunk. I was hit with bad news and then slapped [...]
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Cathy from Nurture Store asked me whether we should parent boys and girls differently. In a perfect world, I think there would be very few differences in terms of how we should parent boys and girls. As I wrote in my post on the Bias Against Boys: Are boys are girls really that different? There [...]
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Remember what your parents told you? Remember what your teachers told you? No one can touch you down there without your consent. Turns out, someone forgot to tell our country’s medical professionals. Yesterday, I was sitting in a middle-aged male client’s cubicle discussing a project we are working on, when tweets from @sassymonkey started popping [...]
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