Check out “normal” Barbie, a doll created with realistic proportions. From Huff Po:   Artist Nickolay Lamm of MyDeals.com used CDC measurements of an average 19-year-old woman to create a 3-D…

  Move over Don, Roger, Peggy and Joan. It’s time to meet the real men and women of Madison Ave, courtesy of Thirteen. I watched the premiere last night, and definitely recommend…

    And the fails keep coming. From Upworthy:   An IRS contractor hurt his foot playing football in military prep school. He never served in the actual military. Then one day,…

(Source)   I don’t identify as a feminist. Not first wave, second wave, third wave or wavy wave. I don’t like lots of labels, and this one, for me, is particularly problematic.…

(NPR)     I so thought I’d skip the whole Paula Deen kerfluffle with just yesterday’s quick mention. And I really was going to leave it alone because like everything celeb-related, the…

Soher Ebrahim     This week, I watched and read about three teenage girls who do to their gender and culture, have suffered greatly, one to the point of death. First, from…

    This is so cool! My friend Maria passes along this video:    

    I’ve been enjoying Retro Report, which features a series of videos on stories that were huge in the eighties and nineties and their aftermath. I find these stories fascinating because…

  (Shiny Shiny)   From Business 2 Community:     Once the dominant social network, Myspace is now a faded memory for people who used the network about a decade ago. Even…