Dear Marzipan, I’m about to become a 25 year old virgin who has never been in a real relationship. And I feel like the biggest failure. Sex isn’t something I take casually because I’m a very vulnerable person (aren’t we all at the core?). Having never been in a relationship makes me feel unlovable/ugly/dumb/fill-in-the-blank-internal insult. [...]
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One of my most wonderful and amazing friends, and the mother of two equally phenomenal little girls, sent me an article written by Monique Fields for The Root, entitled “The Trouble with Disney’s Princess Tiana.” This is an article that not only targets Disney’s newest princess, which had already been critiqued by the New York [...]
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More and more often lately I have been having conversations with people about their fear and lack of confidence in sexual situations. And I have found myself surprised because these woes have been coming from the least likely suspects, women who I had formerly known to be strong, independent, sexy, and smart. Then I was [...]
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I know you think I’ve abandoned you. In some ways perhaps this is true, so I will give you that, but I assure you that I still love you. In fact I have been spending much time thinking about the many many ways in which to serve you better and bring you more fun, more [...]
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You know how this competition goes, the everyday game of “I love you”, “Oh baby, I love you too”. OR, worse yet, “i love you”, “Oh baby, thank you.” To which your brain, or, well, my brain, responds THANK YOU?! I wrote about a similar issue in October, in the post the thing about texting, [...]
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And not because I promised to. Or because it’s October 15th. Or because I want to be a good feminist. Or because I want you to, though I do. Today I love my body because it walks me down the street. It lifts the cup of coffee to my lips in the morning and it [...]
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In a recent article written for The Herald-Sun entitled “Recreational Hook-ups or Emotional Hang-ups?” author Kylie Harrell discusses the incoming freshman orientation at Duke University a mandatory meeting entitled “The Real Deal” where freshmen learn to make “responsible social decisions”. The article goes on to discuss the hooking up phenomenon, pausing at several moments to wonder [...]
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