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I want a girl with a long skirt and a loooooong jacket.
Can anyone explain to me in good faith why these women so often seem to dress identically, right down to the odd wall of hair over the forehead? I am sincerely curious about it. It doesn't seem that desiring to dress modestly logically means everyone dressing alike, but maybe there's something I don't know about this tradition.
Part of being modest is not drawing attention to yourself - everyone dressing the same helps with this, at least within a... [more]
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at 11:21 PM on July 1, 2008
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An Affair to Remember
"And because the couple now had to sneak around to be together—for instance, cutting out when they were supposed to be in church"
I wonder if this was a religious assisted living facility. I find it bizarre that church would be mandatory.
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at 2:34 PM on June 11, 2008
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Before Roe vs. Wade.
I'm fascinated that he mentions coat hangers. At one point I looked for stories/references about coat hangers being used for abortions and, oddly, couldn't find anything at all. Not that absence of evidence is evidence of absence, but it seemed strange given what a prominent symbol they are. I'm in no way glad that women have had to resort to coathanger abortions, but I'm glad that it's not an empty, alarmist symbol being used.
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at 10:24 PM on June 6, 2008
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It's fun to do bad things
She also told WPBF that she is making sure that Milton won't have access to her rental car while her SUV is being repaired.
"When I first got the rental he said, 'Oh, you know, let me take this for a spin," Stratford said.
I probably shouldn't be laughing.
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at 10:01 PM on May 14, 2008
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28 Days Later...more stem cells!
I doubt the niddah laws would apply here. Even putting aside the potential life-saving aspect, niddah laws as observed today by the most observant Jews only forbid a man from touching or sharing certain space/objects with his wife, not menstrual blood itself (or even other menstrually impure women). In days when the temple was standing, different laws (whereby objects could become impure) applied, but by those standards everyone is impure today [and there is no means for making them pure since... [more]
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at 9:31 PM on April 14, 2008
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Mr. Mom
God, it's wonderful reading the discussion here after happening across the reddit page and the asshattery there.
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at 1:00 PM on March 20, 2008
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... in keeping with the Reform movement's tradition of liberal positions on human sexuality.
rouftop: Does this mean mohels may have more work on their hands?
No. I've actually seen an (Orthodox!) ruling that FtM guys do not need circumcision. This was at the end of a rather inconclusive chapter about the permissability and halakhic status (male or female) of FtM people: "In conclusion, we have no idea. BUT for reasons X Y and Z, (which unfortunately I can't remember) we are sure that FtM people need not have a bris." I don't... [more]
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at 7:43 AM on August 10, 2007
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Girl Gone Mild
Wendy Shalit links to "the first abstinence website for Jewish teens" on her blog. Kinda interesting. I went to an Orthodox all-girls school, and I don't think the word "sex" was ever mentioned, even in the capacity of "don't do it." Speaking so boldly would be immodest.
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at 6:15 AM on July 3, 2007
Despite what she claims, she's not really advocating breaking from the herd mentality. She's advocating creating a different herd mentality that's more in line with her own values and opinions. (She's certainly not advocating sex ed or even individualism in the Orthodox Jewish world, of which she's a part--and where the herd happens to share her values.)
The clincher for me was that on the Diane Rehm show she rails against the American Library Association and sex ed.... [more]
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at 1:00 PM on July 3, 2007
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MySpace MP3 Downloader
There were some other ways of doing the very same thing, and MySpace kept changing things so that the programs/tricks wouldn't work.
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at 6:09 PM on June 8, 2007
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Escape from Real Bitch Island
Wouldn't it make sense for women who were sexually attracted to women to emphasize their femininity?
As someone pointed out, men who are attracted to women don't necessarily emphasize their own femininity.
I think the question hiding in the question above is actually "wouldn't it make sense for women who are sexually attracted to women to prefer women who emphasize their femininity?... [more]
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at 4:13 PM on May 31, 2007
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Public domain books published 1923-1963
Neat--I'd been wondering about the status of an underappreciated 1960s children's book that I think should be reprinted, and this answered my question. I suppose it was pretty unlikely that the copyright had simply been allowed to run out (which woulda made reprinting really easy, of course), but it's nice to know for sure.
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at 5:29 PM on April 6, 2007
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Ortho-Evra Kills
Wait, so do you also consider Synthroid to be "faddish?" And Albuterol inhalers? Those are also on that list of the top 300 prescriptions. I better warn my friends with thyroid disease and asthma that their doctors have been prescribing faddish drugs!
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at 6:17 AM on November 3, 2006
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HIV is a gay disease
Way to alienate heterosexual black women: the population with the most quickly increasing HIV rate in America
honeydew, while that's true in the US at large, the statistics they link to on the campaign's website show that this is not true for LA. The vast majority of people who have contracted HIV in LA in the past few years are men who have sex with men ("MSMs" in public health lingo.)... [more]
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at 4:34 AM on October 6, 2006
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Are You Jewish Tonight?
I thought that in order to be Jewish, your mother had to be Jewish.
Yeah, that's the standard. But the ancestor believed to be Jewish is his mother's mother's mother. If that lady was Jewish, so was her daughter, and her daughter, and that daughter's son (Elvis).
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at 7:21 PM on October 2, 2006
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70 years, Sept 24th 2006
bardic, someone had told me that he had died of AIDS (or that the pneumonia was AIDS-related), which was devastating to me as a child. (The idea that AIDS was "bad" had filtered down to me, sans actual facts or understanding of what it was all about.)
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at 3:42 AM on September 24, 2006
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HIV Test for Everyone?
Your blood is tested for the HIV virus everytime you donate.
Why not just force everyone to donate blood?
The Red Cross makes it clear that you should -not- donate blood in lieu of getting tested--if you actually have reason to suspect that you've been exposed to HIV (as opposed to "oh, everyone should get tested just in case"), don't donate, because the tests aren't perfect and you may expose someone else to HIV.
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at 12:05 AM on September 23, 2006
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GILG!
It's ridiculous to expect people to identify and give useful tags to most of those images when they're only showing you the thumbnail versions. The resolution is shitty.
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at 6:49 AM on September 15, 2006
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Bow wow wow.
dobbs, have you read the updated (2002) version of the New Skete books or are you referring to the old (1970s) ones? I read the 2002 edition of "How to Be Your Dog's Best Friend" and remember it being a very easy read. They've also modified some of their ideas, but I don't remember the old edition too well, so I can't comment more specifically.
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at 2:46 PM on September 12, 2006
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This is the new [iTunes].
As long as bands still have the option to put up songs that are free to download (without having to pay a "distribution fee" to myspace), I'm all for it. It's unclear if that's the way it'll be, though.
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at 8:38 PM on September 3, 2006
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Disposophobia
My mom has some mild (hahah) version of this. The problem is that as annoying as it is, she has some really neat stuff. And some newspapers from 1999. . .
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at 8:31 AM on September 3, 2006
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tasty antecedent
Now that they've controlled for disease and smoking, I'd be curious to see a study that's also stratified by activity level/exercise habits.
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at 8:00 PM on August 22, 2006
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sunny day...
It's an interesting idea, but I didn't really like The Children's Hour that much in its original form. Okay, that's a lie, I hated The Children's Hour. And I hated this once I realized it was the same story.
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at 1:33 PM on August 15, 2006
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This is more than torture.
Michelle_hermosabeach writes "We are men. It’s okay if they beat me….But no one would want their manhood to be shattered. They wanted us to feel as though we were women, the way women feel, and this is the worst insult, to feel like a woman."
I'd be interested in seeing that article in its entirety, but I haven't been able to find it online. Is it available?
I imagine that the context--that this is in the Arab... [more]
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at 9:11 PM on August 6, 2006
I think you missed my point: what you quoted was about men describing how being made to feel like a woman is the ultimate degrading experience. That's pretty intriguing and deserves some context. I don't think that's really about porn, but I don't know.
The Guardian article seems to be a wholesale bashing of the porn industry under the guise of discussing Abu Ghraib. I'm not really into that, thanks. And the "It's either that or nothing" choice offered to... [more]
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at 12:15 AM on August 7, 2006
