"WASHINGTON - Students who participated in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have sex a few years later as those who did not, according to a long-awaited study mandated by Congress.
Also, those who attended one of the four abstinence classes reviewed reported having similar numbers of sexual partners as those who did not attend the classes, and they first had sex at about the same age as their control group counterparts — 14 years and nine months, according to Mathematica ... read on »
Of course I have more to say, but in my busy chick world, for now I only have to say it's time. It's time to use that repressed energy to let folks know it's enough. We don't have to live in a world where pop culture defines them with degrading language. We don't have to live in a world where our sons learn to tear women down to build themselves up. We don't have to be quiet and just accept that our society is what it is, because it's not.
I can't NOT TELL YOU anymore. Leslie Hall will be here in April. Yes, she will perform at Hal and Mal's. I am loving this woman.
Along the lines of "Ask a Ninja," she has created a ceWEBity status for herself. In fact, her site was featured on VH1's "Web Junk" last night, and she also stuck around for HILARIOUS commentary on all the other "Web Junk" winners.
Her comedy/music/passion started when as an art student, she decided to create a home for all those lost sparkly 80's sweaters. You ... read on »
I've sat on this one too long. Feministing has blogged about the ickiness of the Purity Ball for a while now, and this one is quite the ickiest.
First of all, I'd just love to be a princess. Daddy's regal little princess. However, that job market has shrunk somewhat since I was a little girl, and I even scanned the local career sites to see what the current market is looking like for a princess. I found zero openings.
Therefore, I find the whole "princess" thing fun for Halloween and ... read on »
One of the Chick Ball committee members, Infinite, let us in on some of her upcoming events. We thought you should know, too!
Thursday, March 22
Hal & Mal's Red Room
Networking Party for Hip-Hop Artists with Kamikaze and our own chick, Infinite.
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I'm watching Oprah; the Princess is having a lemon tea and watching with me. Oprah asks her audience, "Can you have it all?" Can you have a career and a family and a self all at once? Elizabeth Vargas, who left the evening news during her second pregnancy, admitted that she felt constantly torn. I applaud her courage to make that decision, for what is best for HER, while the world watches and the National Organization of Women, and others, frowned upon her decision.
Jill Conner Browne will kick off the Big Ass Bus Tour today with her first stop, of course, at Lemuria. This is the "Sweet Potato Queen's First Big-Ass Novel: Stuff We Didn't Actually Do, But Could Have and Might Still Yet" written with Karin Gillespie.
Jill signs at five, and she reads at 5:30.
I love it when a New York Times bestselling author kicks off her tour in Jackson, MS. That's loyalty there. I've read the book, and it was an enjoyable read. Very different from her non-fiction ... read on »
I've been saving up for this one. One, Vanity Fair owes us an apology OR a rebuttal. Two, Christopher Hitchens's picture looks like a mustached woman waiting for her bread to rise. Now we know that there is nothing more insulting to a man than to allude him as a woman. That is why I feel comfortable calling this columnist a pussy. Here's why.
Mr. Steam Jeans and I are spending our first Christmas together with our "blended" family. The Monkey is nine; the Princess is ten, so we have about a decade of tradition to combine. Then there's the fact that he's Yankee, which is another story for another day. He says he's Californian, but I'm not splitting hairs on that one. He's a Yankee, and a Yankee does not know a southern Christmas.
So, yep. We've endured some stress, some misunderstanding and Mr. Steamjeans is proud to say, lots of ... read on »
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