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Excuse me while I throw this down, I’m old and cranky and tired of hearing the idiocy repeated by people who ought to know better. Real women do not have curves. Real women do not look like just one thing.

Filling a Much-Needed Void : real women

http://www.hanneblank.com/blog/2011/06/23/real-women/
http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/109323/top_50_dumbest_conservative_quotes ( Editor's note: Whatever your political beliefs, we can all agree that people say the dumbest things. Below, you'll find some some stupid conservative quotes put together by Sasha Brown-Worsham. For equally stupid -- and funny -- gaffs made by their liberal counterparts, read 50 Dumb Liberal Quotes . )

Top 50 Dumbest Conservative Quotes

Hi Ladies! Today, Abby, our founder, mentor, pseudo mom, and my best friend, was admitted to ER and had a surgery done tonight due to a minor health complication. No need for details because she is doing much better now and will be able to go home tomorrow to rest and recover. However, let’s make her recovery that much better and quicker by sending her all of our positive vibes and warm wishes her way. She is the strongest person I have in my life, so I have no doubt she will be back and better than ever soon, but for the meantime, let her be in our thoughts and prays.

beauty in life

http://beauty-in-life.tumblr.com/
http://www.themarysue.com/8-real-women-who-deserve-their-own-movies/

8 Real Women Who Deserve Their Own Movies

Hollywood, we have to talk. I’ve spoken to every ticket-buyer in America and we’ve all decided that you need to make more movies about badass women. Like, starting yesterday. Oh sure, every now and then you will throw us a Salt or maybe even a Salt II , but face it, Hollywood, many of your attempts at a woman-driven action movies have been half-assed at best and soul-crushingly awful at worst (see Electra, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li , or, dear God, Sucker Punch ). It should not be that hard, Hollywood.
http://femaletalk.com/news/asking-it-if Not Ever, a project of Rape Crisis Scotland, has launched an amazing new ad campaign . A man in a bar glances over at a pretty girl and a short skirt and leers "She's asking for it." Cut to the woman shopping for skirts at a clothing store.

Asking For It? As If! | Female Talk