Ever since the furor over the possibility of being court-martialed for getting pregnant in a combat zone , not much has been said about the issue of military women causing problems in Iraq when they get sent home early after being knocked-up. Part of the problem with discussing it is that to my knowledge, nobody has ever had any [...]

“My album covers are not sexual at all, which was an issue at my record label. I fought for months, and I cried at meetings. They didn’t think the photos were commercial enough…The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself.” -Lady Gaga [...]

I recently wrote a short post on my blog about the Naval Academy color guard incident in which a commander added/subtracted people in order to make it more diverse and representative of the student body. Essentially, I said that he wasn’t creating the appearance of diversity if in fact the stats (25% minority and 20% female) were [...]

Color guard thrown a curve – Officials tinker with group to make Naval Academy look diverse to World Series viewers. If 20 percent of the Naval Academy students are female and 25 percent are minorities, then adding two people to a color guard isn’t making the Academy "look" diverse. It already IS diverse and they apparently [...]

To artist Joe Mullins, recent history appears ready to repeat itself. Mullins was hired nearly 10 years ago to sculpt a statue to honor West Virginia’s female veterans. But a fight over the design all but derailed the project five years ago. Mullins now worries that a new attempt to complete the memorial is headed toward [...]

Carolyn Hax is the fantastic relationship advice columnist at the Washington Post. She was away this week, but when she’s gone she runs columns with advice or personal testimonies from readers. Today’s writer’s story made me feel so sad for her loss but so lucky at the same time to be alive during this time [...]

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“The performance-based pay system, called the National Security Personnel System or NSPS, was launched two years ago. The performance evaluations, raises and bonuses handed out in January were the first large-scale test of the new system, covering 102,000 employees at agencies, bases and commands across the Defense Department.” “The first large-scale [...]

So I have a this problem: I like to wear dresses. It doesn’t sound like a problem but aside from the fact that it’s nearly impossible to find dresses that don’t look like the 1980s thrift store reject colors barfed up on them the problem with dresses is that I HATE shaving my legs. Part [...]