Monthly Archives: June 2012
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron, 1941-2012
Tweet Essayist and filmmaker Nora Ephron has died. Nora Ephron was a giant. Ephron wrote the screenplay for “Silkwood”, best known as the writer of the seminal romantic comedy “When Harry Met Sally” and wrote and directed the wildly successful (and still one of my favorites) “You’ve Got Mail”. If you haven’t seen “Silkwood”, please [...]
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What we missed
TweetRachel Sklar on the women that were missed in the Daily Beast’s list of Digital Influence. The people of Arizona will not be complying with yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling. After pride–a reflection on how queer is a class issue–Laura Flanders asks where should the GLBTQ movement go next? n+1 on Republicans being BIG BABIES. More [...]
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If Presidents are supposed to be like our boyfriend, Mitt Romney would make a terrible one
TweetMitt Romney has joined the race for our affections, but he’s struggling to close the deal. His responses to major political issues are vague at best and his lack of commitment is apparent in his inability to take any firm positions. No one wants to date Mitt Romney. I hate to say it but Romney’s [...]
Five ways the myth of the “model minority” hurts all of us
Tweet Last week the Pew Center released a report that confirmed preconceived notions about Asian Americans (all of us!)–and found that as an immigrant group we earn more money, we get more education and we take marriage more seriously. You can’t argue with concrete evidence if you haven’t done your own research (what–you don’t like a sample [...]
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80% of 10-year-old girls in the U.S. say they’ve been on a diet