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Painful Beauty? No Thanks

MomGrind — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:45 +0000

Funny, sure, but also very real - while I look nothing like the woman in the commercial, I often find that there's a huge difference between how I carry myself outside, in my jeans and heels and tummy held firmly in, and the sheer joy of getting home, going to my bedroom, and peeling the annoying layers of street clothes off. Finally I can breathe!

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Painful Beauty? No Thanks

At Some Point, You Just Stop Reading This Crap

MomGrind — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:00:55 +0000

I was bored, what can I say. I stopped buying women's magazines years ago, but when you sit at the hair salon getting a haircut, it's either staring at your familiar, boring face as the stylist works, or picking a magazine and reading it. I chose the latter, and as I was reading, leafing through page after page, I was thinking, how can so much crap fit into one magazine? Of course I had to share it with you, so despite horrified glances from the stylist, I started taking pictures. Here it is - a thoroughly depressing collection of ads and editorials, aimed at women, from one of the top fashion magazines in the world.

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At Some Point, You Just Stop Reading This Crap

All Grown Up, Still No Manicure

MomGrind — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:00:56 +0000

I always assumed I would have beautifully manicured nails when I became a grownup. "Your hands say so much about you," women's magazines would warn, urging me to get weekly manicures or else, and I, a teenager, an eager consumer of those magazines, believed them. Dyed hair, manicured nails and high heels were what separated hopelessly neglected women from the stylish ones. Looking at my chipped nails, I knew I couldn't afford weekly professional manicures - but someday I would.

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All Grown Up, Still No Manicure

Things I Want Men to Know

MomGrind — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:00:09 +0000

Completely by accident, I stumbled upon one of the stupidest paragraphs I have ever read. "Despite spending years trying to understand women, reading up on their psychological make-up and occasionally watching Oprah for some insight, they're still a mystery! It’s part of why we love them." It appears in a humorous article "teaching" men how to handle women, but it's actually quite typical of many other articles, books and publications, all aimed at highlighting the differences between the genders and promoting gender wars.

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Things I Want Men to Know

Where Can I Find Sandals for Ugly Feet

MomGrind — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:00:21 +0000

To the woman who landed on my blog after searching for the phrase, "Where can I find sandals for ugly feet": No doubt, you were dismayed when your search had brought you to this blog post: The Ugliest Shoes I’ve Ever Seen. But I'm glad you found me (or maybe it is I who have found you - I doubt you stayed here more than a second once you'd realized how irrelevant to your search my blog post is), because I have something important to tell you. Please stop doing this to yourself.

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Where Can I Find Sandals for Ugly Feet

Please Don’t Tell Me I Look Like Her Sister

MomGrind — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:00:22 +0000

I still remember, as a child, going shopping with my mom. I was 12. She was 38, a very attractive woman with long auburn hair and a petite, hourglass figure. She always wore short dresses and high heels. She looked great! I was so proud of her. Male store clerks would often flatter her, looking at her, then at me, and asking me, "Is this your sister?" She always smiled politely. I always cringed a little, because even then, at the age of 12, a good 2-3 years before I became a feminist, on some level I knew that their "compliment" was in fact an insult.

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Please Don’t Tell Me I Look Like Her Sister

I Know I Have Wrinkles. I Don’t Want to Remove Them.

MomGrind — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:00:50 +0000

Not my words. This is from Virginia DeBolt, who recently said on her Facebook page: "Dear whoever places the ads on my Facebook page, I know I have wrinkles. I don't want to remove them. You can show me a different ad now – I've seen the wrinkle remover one 1000 times and haven't been moved to click. I am my wrinkles, my wrinkles are me." Another woman I admire, The Israeli actress Orna Porat, has been asked why she does nothing to eliminate her wrinkles. Her response: "Why should I? I worked hard for my wrinkles. I have earned them!" I'm not quite there yet, but I'm working on it.

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I Know I Have Wrinkles. I Don’t Want to Remove Them.