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tweets Amy Schumer's "Compliments" sketch gave me a really important reminder huff.to/19GALVr via @HuffPostWomen
Amy Schumer's Compliments Sketch Reminds Women To Learn How To Accept Praise
huffingtonpost.com — GET UPDATES FROM Emma Gray Are lots of women awful at accepting praise? That's the premise of comedian Amy Schumer's "Compliments" sketch -- and she makes a pretty valid point. The sketch (watch below) features Amy and her female friends giving and expertly deflecting compliments. "You dyed your hair!I really feel like Blue Ivy didn't get enough time in the spotlight before Beyonce baby #2 started making headlines.
Love @shorterstory's list of awful lit characters -- also share her anger that Amy ended up w/Laurie in Little Women thehairpin.com/2013/05/daisy-…
Daisy, You're a Drip, Dear: Detestable Literary Characters Who Are Not Technically Villains
thehairpin.com — Baz Lurhmann's The Great Gatsby lindy-hopped away with over 50 million dollars this past weekend and inspired New York's Kathryn Schulz to put together a thought-provoking takedown of the source material: "Aesthetically overrated, psychologically vacant, and morally complacent," she declared last week."Success does not prevent mental health issues and mental health issues do not prevent success" --wise @cshuffington huff.to/19B8Oyl
Famous Women With Eating Disorders Are Right To Speak Publicly About Them
huffingtonpost.com — "Must we (all) talk about our eating disorders?" That's the question Kat Stoeffel at The Cut raised Wednesday in response to New York City mayoral candidate Christine Quinn's admission that she is a recovering alcoholic and that she suffered from bulimia in her teens and 20s.I want to be best friends with 16-year-old Angelina Jolie. She collected antique swords and loved fencing. huff.to/17BpJUW
Young Angelina Jolie: 16-Year-Old Angie Loves Fencing, Boxing, Swords
huffingtonpost.com — Before Angelina Jolie was raising kids with Brad Pitt and writing powerful, conversation-changing op-eds in the New York Times about her preventive mastectomy, she was a teenager. A teenager who loved fencing and boxing. BuzzFeed dug up this awesome old footage of teenage Angie discussing her boxing and fencing skills, and she is adorable.Today's PR fail: "To prevent unwanted gentleman interrupting your girl’s-only evening, try a sneaky little trick: sport an engagement ring!"
They know what you have to do on an 80-degree day. RT @laurastampler In my 10 minute walk I've now seen 9 people with ice cream cones
Yup... MT @ryanpbroderick It finally happened, someone genuinely suggested that friendzoning men should be illegal reddit.com/r/MensRights/c…
andreipmbcn comments on Train a society of men that the only acceptable option is to be "the nice guy". But.. If they notice that it works against them in dating that must mean they only want sex. So berate and chastise them.
reddit.com — I think these women's contempt towards good men, and implicitly their manipulation of men's volitions, is one of the few things I would genuinely call..."I love a dark haired guy who looks like he tans well" -- @hp50anthonia discussing her childhood crush on Prince Eric from "Little Mermaid"
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