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July 08, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Gossip Roundup
Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam is ago! THANK GOD!!!!! Apparently, Demi and the Purity Ring Trio return to Camp Rock to find out that many of the students and teachers have turned to the dark side and joi...
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July 08, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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How a Teenager Outsmarted Multi-Billion Dollar Company
Ari Weinstein is 15. As a preschooler, he changed his family's computer settings. At 7 he created a website and hacked AOL's parental controls. In sixth grade, he jailbreaked his iPod mini to get free...
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Jennifer's Body
So the trailer for Diablo Cody's new movie about a possessed cheerleader who seduces her male classmates then kills them was just released.
Bad news: I can't embed the video from youtube. so you ...
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July 07, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Robsten? Stewpat?
So here are all the rumors floating around about Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson (that wasn't obvious from the title of the post??) because I feel like it's important to have all the Twilight rum...
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July 07, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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another teen show rant
I've been watching a lot of tv on the internet lately. Especially this school year, the scheduling of most "teen" shows [Gossip Girl; 90210; etc] really clashed with my own personal schedule, which wa...
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Boise man takes picture up woman's skirt
Yesterday, a man in Boise was arrested for trying to take pictures up women's skirts in downtown Boise.
He was then inducted into the national tool society of America, given a fedora (the official h...
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Women and Broadway: what EXACTLY do we hate?
Clearly there is discrimination against women in the film industry. Hell, if Ela Thier’s open letter didn’t make that clear enough, the associations most of society has with “Hollywood” and “women” sh...
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how Liz Jones didn't defeat anorexia
Via Jezebel: Daily Mail reporter Liz Jones wrote one of the most disturbing articles I've ever read.
Having admittedly struggled with anorexia for 40 years (she hasn't recovered yet) Jones wrote abou...
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July 04, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Laura Marling
In honor of 4th of July weekend...I'm going for a Brit. Good.
Laura Marling, a 19 year old from Hampshire, England, released her first album, Alas, I Cannot Swim, in February 2008. Her unique sound...
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"Serena Williams cruises to Wimbledon victory"
says the nytimes.
all i'm gonna say after writing this is you can take your "pretty" and shove it, Wimbledon....
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Growing up too fast
It scares me that things have changed so vastly in the 2 years since I've been in middle school. It seems to me that there is a very different standard for popularity nowadays then there was when I wa...
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Bridezillas 24/7
The New York Post reported yesterday that Cablevision is launching a 24/7 wedding channel sometime in the near future.
To which I responded: WTF?
Why are we so obssessed with weddings? Do we enjoy w...
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Appointed: a White House advisor on violence against women
Obama just appointed Lynn Rosenthal, a former executive director of the National Netowrk to End Domestic Violence, to the position of "White House adviser on violence against women." Apparently this i...
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Oh Wimbledon
Wimbledon. I had respect for you. With your penchant for serving tea and strawberries with cream while watching non contact sports instead of artery-blocking glorified fat while watching supposedly he...
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June 29, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Megan Fox is cool
"If your idea of a role model is somebody who’s gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I’m not a role model. But if...
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Women's Sports Leagues
It was right around 4th or 5th grade that I, an intramural basketball champ at just under five feet tall, decided that I was going to be a point guard for the "NBA" as I told my parents. "But Julie," ...
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NCRW Conference & Blog
With things being so crazy with my internship at the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) I've decided to fill y'all in on the great work I've been doing there.
Almost 2 weeks ago, the NCRW...
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Rebecca Rubin: The First Jewish Doll
Remember American Girl Dolls? It used to be a huge thing to have one of those dolls. Every one had its own little story. Dolls with identities. There was Samantha, who was from the Victorian era, and ...
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Target Women: Laundry
"Laundry makes you feel like a cute a little bear is putting you in a tub of fuzzy"
I love Sarah Haskins with an intense passion....
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Facts of Looove
So normally I don't pay any attention to articles promoted by e-mail services. Especially articles listed under "AOL Personals." But my friend just showed me this article entitled "25 Fascinating Lo...
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The Art of Handling Public Affairs: Gloria Allred and Tina Brown on Elizabeth Edwards
I think it’s so easy for feminists to view a relationship in which a man cheats on a woman and say, “Girl, dump his ass.” It’s situations like these that the phrase “easier said than done,” was made...
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REAL Deal Blog Guest Blog: My Thoughts On Women, Leadership and Politics
Back in December, I guest-blogged on the National Council for Research on Women's blog The Real Deal
The prompt was: What are your thoughts, as a young woman leader, on women, leadership and politi...
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May 17, 2009 | Julie Zeilinger |
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Random Urban Dictionary: Star Trek
In honor of the new completely badass Star Trek movie, let's explore what the masses at Urban Dictionary think. Apparently Star Trek is the pacifist, superior version of Star Wars that everyone's sick...
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The State of Religious Debate In Our Nation
So here's what some fine churches in our nation have been debating lately. Have they been debating the scriptures? No. Our fates after death? Sort of...
Yes, two churches down south are debating whet...
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It's Cute That Conservatives Think Colbert is Serious
According to a study by OSU conservatives don't know that Colbert says ridiculously conservative things as a form of hilarious satire. Yeah, they would think that.
Here are just a few of the reasons ...