This post is written for the ‘What does real beauty mean to you‘ contest on indiblogger conducted by Yahoo! and Dove. I often ask my father how I look when I try a new dress on. And he always replies with what I find rather unusual, ‘You look very pretty. But for me, that 5 pound baby covered [...]
So here goes, a list of some of the things I don’t want to see in the next year: ~ ~Reality shows- Oh for God’s sake I DO NOT care about thirty people screaming about, and sleeping around, locked in a house. I DO NOT want to see women who forgot where there lips are [...]
My friend called me up, in the middle of the night, crying. She had just gotten into a fight with another friend’s ex-boyfriend. She said, “I’ve never felt so insulted in my life!” I was taken aback when she said that, when she continued, “He said I was a whore, and a bitch who did [...]
Dear older me, I’ve been thinking about you lately. Thinking about how you’ve turned out. It’s been 10 years since I’ve written this to you, and I’m writing this because I don’t want you to forget me, or that I was there in your life. There are these questions in my head I want to [...]
The Oxford dictionary defines rape as ‘The unlawful compelling of a woman through physical force to have sexual intercourse’. Rape isn’t really a contemporary issue, it is a phenomenon which sadly, has been a part of our society and human history in general, since time immemorial. During all wars, the winning army ravaged the women [...]
