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Tag Archives: beauty

Quit telling me to feel beautiful

April 19, 2015by I was a high school feminist 6 Comments

Over the past ten years or so, I’ve tried to be patient with the Dove ‘real beauty‘ ad campaigns. For instance, Dove’s ‘diverse bodies’ campaign featured smooth-skinned, conventionally attractive women […]

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4 ways to have the most feminist flight ever

March 14, 2015by I was a high school feminist 2 Comments

Okay, so I’m sitting here at the airport, killing time before my flight home to NJ, and I just realized how anti-feminist flying can be. I mean, seriously, think about […]

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Quit bad-mouthing teenage girls

February 12, 2015by I was a high school feminist 5 Comments

So the other day I was in a situation where I overheard a male acquaintance scolding his teen daughter. It was early in the morning, and he was annoyed that […]

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Feminist nanny needs your advice!

February 4, 2015by I was a high school feminist 4 Comments

Okay, so, obviously I haven’t written in a while – between working three jobs, trying to keep up with dance classes, and starting to train as a dance instructor, plus […]

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How can a biscuit be wicked? Five reasons to stop calling foods “bad”

December 8, 2014by I was a high school feminist 5 Comments

This story starts, as so many stories do, with some biscuits. That’s cookies, to my American readers. Milk chocolate digestives, to be exact. You see, I ate about a dozen […]

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Five for 5/5

May 5, 2014by I was a high school feminist Leave a comment

Ooh, a date that reads the same in English and American! Whether you’re enjoying the bank holiday or just getting up for work, here’s some light Monday-morning reading. 1. Not […]

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Enough with giving women a hard time over #nomakeupselfies

March 31, 2014by I was a high school feminist 11 Comments

Last week, I clicked on an article titled “Enough with the cancer ‘awareness’ selfie stunts,” knowing that there was a good chance it would annoy me. Guess what – I […]

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Guest Post! On body modification and plastic surgery

March 4, 2014by I was a high school feminist 2 Comments

So, I am SUPER excited about this week’s post. It’s the first ever guest post I’m featuring on my blog (but hopefully not the last!), and it’s by someone I […]

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When did you start shaving your legs?

February 18, 2014by I was a high school feminist Leave a comment

You know what the world needs? A YouTube series of advertisements featuring a ten-year-old girl who blogs about shaving her legs. Luckily, Gillette Venus Canada has stepped up to the […]

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Can I straighten my hair and still call myself a feminist?

January 21, 2014by I was a high school feminist 12 Comments

So today I did something that I do once or twice a year – something that most people probably wouldn’t consider terribly feminist; I went to get a “Japanese straight […]

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