Are Chinese Mothers Superior or Too Strict?
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‘Burlesque’ Is So Bad It’s Good
Filed under: Woman UpCher's latest movie has easily earned its place at the pinnacle of cult classic corn. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Is Tyler Perry’s New Movie for ‘Colored Girls’? Or for Everyone?
Filed under: Woman UpLovers of Ntozake Shange's work deserved more than this film delivers. Perry's male characters are caricatures, and the movie suffers from a lack of artistry. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs&nb...
Clarence Thomas’ Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Filed under: Scandal, Woman Up, Supreme CourtLillian McEwen, Thomas' girlfriend 25 years ago, suddenly finds inspiration to dish on him. Could it be she wants to sell her memoirs? Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs&nbs...
‘Mad Men’: Three Women on an Elevator, Going Who Knows Where
Filed under: Woman UpThe elevator -- a metaphor for women's expanding roles, and choices, in the 1960s. 'Mad Men's' latest episode captured women's ambivalence. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Angelina Jolie in ‘Salt’ Proves Girls Can Take a Hit (and Throw a Punch)
Filed under: Woman UpTaking on the role originally intended for Tom Cruise, Jolie plays a woman on a mission, working with her feminine strengths, not despite or against them. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs |&...
Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D’s
Filed under: Woman UpDebrahlee Lorenzana, the babalicious banker who claims she was canned for being too sexy, has had two breast augmentations and a film role in her past. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs |&nbs...
Lesbians’ Children Are Better Behaved, Study Finds
Filed under: Woman Up, CultureResearchers who followed 78 households headed by lesbians found their children to have fewer behavioral problems than their peers. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Debrahlee Lorenzana Sues Citi, Claims She Was Fired for Her Beauty
Filed under: Woman Up, Wall Street, EthicsCan a girl be fired because her male colleagues find her sexy figure too distracting? That's at the heart of Debrahlee Lorenzana's legal claim.
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Being thousands of miles away from my grandmother's ham and too much of a hypochondriac to risk death by annoyance on an airplane, I decided to be "Michelle Obama’s Daisy Dukes
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In the '90s, when Florida bass music was at its height, the Miami rap group The 69 Boyz demanded sweaty club goers to "Look at them girls with the daisy dukes on! Eve-ry-bo-dy, look at them girls with the daisy dukes on!" A decade later,...