Were We Better Off Without Self-Esteem? A Rebuttal To Joel Stein and TIME Magazine


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The May 20th issue of TIME magazine features the cover story “Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation.” In it, author Joel Stein uncovers some pretty shocking details about the generation of  millennials (those born between 1980 and 2000). As it turns out, today’s population of young people are narcissistic, selfish, entitled, and cocky. They’re self [...]

Google Sells New Mother’s Day Video – Are You Buying?


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Google posted a new Mother’s Day video on its official blog. Upbeat song, heart-warming clips. Pregnant moms and lesbian moms and older moms and sons coming out to mom. Moms with chubby new babies and goofy moms and moms of all shapes and sizes and moms of color and moms home from the military. It’s all [...]

Why The Amanda Berry Kidnapping Case Shouldn’t Scare Us [Essay]


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I woke up this morning to news about three women in Cleveland Ohio. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight were held captive for over a decade since being kidnapped when they were young women, one of whom was taken while only 14 years old. My own 14 year old daughter came into the kitchen [...]

Mothers Overreact to Disney’s Makeover Of Brave’s Merida


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I’ll never forget Disney’s movie Brave. Sure it was a good flick, empowering for women, and yadda yadda yadda. But mostly it’s so memorable because I took my two boys to see it in the theater when they were 5 and 3 and subsequently spent half of the film in the lobby with my youngest [...]

Denise Richards Takes Custody Of Charlie Sheen’s Kids By Brooke Mueller. So, WINNING?


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I have always liked Denise Richards. I can’t even say why; there’s just something about her I find inherently sweet. Normally I don’t like sweet people, or people in general. And now Denise has gone and done something which completely validates my thoughts about her by taking custody of the children of her ex-husband Charlie [...]