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I’m watching Say Yes to the Dress on TLC right now. I often watch this show and a lot of others on TLC because they give me insight to worlds that I just would never see for myself, such as people spending $30,000 on big white dresses, sexist fathers of 18 children, babies in beauty pageants, etc. So I’m going to kind of refer Rebecca Mead’s book One Perfect Day here as I comment on Say Yes to the Dress.

One thing that I absolutely hate about this "world" at Kleinfeld is that they CONSTANTLY refer to the wedding day as "the most important day of a woman’s life."

First it makes no sense for anyone to assume a wedding day is ...

Here’s my take and I wonder if any of you feel the same. Overall I like this commercial and its portrayal of young women faced with a reproductive problem and taking action to correct it. Furthermore it shows how simple plan B can be to obtain, take, and proceed with your day (yes, I know people who have taken it and had bad side effects, but people shouldn’t be made afraid to take it). It also makes it very clear that it’s just birth control and not any form of abortion.

But what I don’t like is that there’s a group of women waking up with the same problem- unplanned unprotected sex- and they are all young, college age-types. A problem ...

Last night I was waiting in line at the pharmacy (to spend my $75 on prescriptions related to my female reproductive system) when I catch a glimpse of the cover of Cosmo: "Do this one thing on date #1 and he’s your’s." I couldn’t resist, I just had to see what this "one thing" was. I expected to be offended and horrified, but I just had to see.

Well, it wasn’t one thing, it was six. And they weren’t six things "to do" they were six things NOT to do. The article was written by a man, of course, though given that it was Cosmo I wouldn’t expect anything better from a women. I don’t think I remember all of them, ...

30 second shots of the same woman’s butt in a thong over and over, a quick cut to a mountain view, back to the same woman’s butt, and then a panning shot from a woman’s butt to her boobs does not a show about travel to Hawaii make. All this channel shows is models in tiny bathing suits. Even the segments on snorkeling, diving, and hiking show (a certain type) of women in bikinis.

A little timely topic to discuss: is there a difference between the responsibilities of men and women during the holidays?

I’d say, "absolutely." Have you noticed that when you get a card from a couple, both signatures and the address are written in the woman’s handwriting? Have you met women who, for some inexplicable reason, do all the shopping for their husband/boyfriend’s relatives? In my family, wrapping gifts is a woman’s job. My entire life, my father has come home from last minute shopping and informed me that I have to wrap a pile of large gifts (and my mother wraps the ones for me). My father has never wrapped a present in his entire life. I’ve seen men take some ...