I was ready. Poised to be pissed. For the first half of last season’s How I Met Your Mother(HIMYM) episode “Symphony of Illumination,” I sat on the couch, scowling perpetually.
In the previous episode “The Rebound Girl,” we learn journalist Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders) and playboy Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris)’s adulterous one night stand (although is it really a one night stand if you’ve slept together and dated before?? But I digress…), resulted in Robin telling Barney she was pregnant.
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‘How I Met Your Mother’ One of the Few TV Shows to Explore a Childfree Life for Women
Why Aren’t Feminists More Calm and Rational? Calling Out Sexism and the Courage of Adria Richards
As the firestorm over the Adria Richards story has only increased, a poem from one of my favorite artists – Alix Olson – keeps reverberating in my head. Still we’ve tried being patient, collected, calm, nice trying praying, tried laying you paying the price, we’ve learned to scream until our throats throbbed what else do [...]
Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson!
Mary Robinson: highly educated, civil and human rights campaigner, feminist, passionate, driven, courageous and the first female President of Ireland. The more you learn about her the more you cannot help but admire her. Throughout her life she has never been afraid to stand up for what she believes in and was at the root [...]
New Pay Gap Data Shows It’s Not “The End of Men”
Hanna Rosin’s new book, The End of Men, came out yesterday. While I haven’t yet read it, I saw her recent New York Times Magazine cover story and watched a couple of her Daily Beast videos. Rosin’s overall message is that today’s economy favors women over men. While the three Alabama wives Rosin follows in [...]
Moving from College to Career
If you are preparing to graduate college in another month or so, you probably have more on your mind that just your finals. Figuring the career world, finding your way through interviews, moving – sometimes back in with parents can all be daunting and stressful. Here are some tips to keep in the back of [...]
Pro-choice Communications 101
I do not enjoy “Communications” as a field. I think, honestly, it’s manipulative. The whole point of communications is to frame your issue in such a way that an audience sees it the way you want them to. Communications, PR, advertising, marketing and branding are all – no matter what anyone says to the contrary [...]
Woman Wins Historic $167 Million Sexual Harassment Award
Ani Chopourian, a 43–year-old surgeon’s assistant, received a $167.7 million dollar award this week from a California jury for sexual harassment. It is believed to be the largest verdict ever granted to a single victim for sexual harassment in the United States. The jury allocated $42.7 million as compensation for lost wages and mental anguish. [...]
Succeeding on the First Day
You survived the interviews, you got the job offer. Now you’re getting ready for your first day. Changing jobs is one of the most stressful events in a person’s life. But if you’re prepared ahead of time, that first day, and subsequently first week, can be easy and smooth. Get a good night’s sleep. Eat [...]
Feminism Killed Marriage
Did you know marriage eludes modern women? I had no idea, but I do appreciate being informed of this. As Suzanne Venker said in her article in National Review, women have a better shot today than ever before for martial bliss. With the most freedom, flexibility and privileges than ever before women are waiting longer [...]
Professional Fridays: Knowing Your Value
I am not normally one to look for career help from a book. But after watching all the talk around Mika Brzezinski’s book, Knowing Your Value, I thought the topic of salary negotiation was worth reading about. What I found interesting was that much of the book was more of a “what not to do.” [...]