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Do You Know What Your Genitalia Looks Like?

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Yeah, me neither.

Believe it or not, though, a private school in Philadelphia is actually tackling head on “pleasure, orgasms, healthy relationships, and the wide variety of what is normal in both sexual desire and physical appearance” through direct classroom instruction.

The blog Our Bodies Ourselves recently focused on the significance of this news out of Philly’s Friends’ Central School, particularly the significance of girls knowing the … er … ins and outs of their anatomy.

The thing is, at the piece points out, most girls’ mental images of what female genitalia should look like is based on pornography, which is hardly realistic when you take into account both the airbrushing and the obvious selection process.

Our Bodies Ourselves blogger Rachel Walden incorporates this interesting news out of Philadelphia into her own experiences … and the greater concern that is lack of knowledge about the …

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Women Turning To Cosmetic Surgery To Fit Into Designer Shoes

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We’ve all been there – finding the perfect pair of heels, going to try them on and then realising they are too small or too tight. The solution for most women, myself included, is to try a different size or to ditch that pair and try another but, the Daily Mail reports this week, a trend for cosmetic surgery on the feet, to enable such shoes to fit, is making its way to Britain from the US.

The trend, said to be inspired by designer shoe brands and films like Sex and the City, has led to women in Los Angeles having foot surgery – often purely for appearance’s sake – to fit their feet into the latest designer heels.

The Beverly Hills Aesthetic Foot Surgery is one …

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Lisbeth Salander: The Girl Who Was a Feminist

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It’s not every day that a stone cold feminist shows up in literature.  With Lisbeth Salander (aka The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest), Swedish author Stieg Larsson somehow managed to do just that with the book originally titled Men Who Hate Women.  The best part?  He admittedly based this character on his visualization of a grown up Pippi Longstocking.

I have this aversion to jumping on the literary bandwagon.  From John Grisham’s The Firm to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books to (gulp) the Twilight series (yes, I read the damn things long before the great dildo debacle), I mutter a lot about fads and refuse to read popular books on some general principle I don’t fully understand myself.

Anyway, I did it yet again with Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy … and I was completely wrong.  Except for the ending, I found these books to be outstanding works of literature.  If you haven’t read them, you really should.  And just so you know, I’m not going to give away any sort of big surprise in this post — if anything, think of it as an effort to further pique your interest as we examine Salander’s feminism.

Considering my great affinity for lists (and I hope you’re catching the sarcasm here), it seemed like a great opportunity to pay it forward a bit.  Therefore, I am happy to present you with my first list.

10 Reasons Why Lisbeth Salander is a Feminist

1. She does not buy into the stereotype.
Although Salander is described throughout the series as tiny (her height is given numerous times as under five feet), “anorexic-looking,” and even “doll-like,” she possesses great physical strength that, combined with an incredibly quick mind, make her a worthy adversary for anyone.  Even if she didn’t take pains to make her appearance as gender-neutral as possible, her affinity for Billy’s Pan Pizza and Marlboro Lights do balance out her feminine side a bit.

2. She is friends with a variety of people instead of pigeonholing a group that fits with her exterior appearance.
Mikhail Blomkvist, an honest journalist (referred to by Salander herself as a “practical pig”).  Mimmi Wu, a very open lesbian college student.  Dragan Armansky, the director of a prestigious security company.  “Plague,” a 350 pound recluse …

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People Getting Dimple Jobs to Look Like Cheryl Cole and the World Gets More Ridiculous

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A recent rise in requests for “dimpleplasty” has been attributed to the charming dimples of Cheryl Cole. Apparently people have been flocking en masse (or at least more than they had previously) to their friendly neighborhood plastic surgeons in order to get their very own pair of those adorable dimples of hers.

Let’s briefly explore how this surgery is accomplished:

The dimples will also not look entirely natural, as they remain permanently rather than appearing only when you grin. The operation, dimpleplasty, involves making a tiny cut in the skin to create a small depression.

A stitch is then used to tack the underside of the skin down to a deeper layer and hold it in place. Once the suture dissolves, permanent scar tissue will remain to maintain the dimple.

Well that’s cheery. What’s more is that little is known by doctors about the long term effects of such surgeries. Since it’s a relatively new procedure, there is a good chance that these darling dimpled cheeks will eventually droop with age and become more awkward looking. (Call me terrible, but my first thought was if there is any kind of karma in the world, please let this be true.) Also, let’s all take a moment and think about the perma-dimple that is there whether or not the person is smiling? I’m getting weird visions of Stepford wives here.
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