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It’s been nearly 30 years since I’ve been clean shaven. At first it was so that I wouldn’t be mistaken for a girl — not that that’s bad; it just gets confusing in the boy’s locker room — but for the most part it’s because I’m far too lazy to shave every day. And now, I’m not just lazy, I’m a trendsetter. Rather than shaving, it seems teenage boys are choosing to celebrate their new-found facial hair, even to the point of forming “beard clubs” at their school.
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If you’re like me, you probably won’t get around to reading Gail Collins’s new book for a few more months/years. Instead, you have to settle for reading all the articles about and interviews with the author of When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present.
Among the quick-and-easy offerings is this interview with Jezebel‘s Doree Shafrir. The two talk about the book, feminism then and now and even stuff that’s not in the book. For example: women keeping their names. Collins’s explanation of why a woman feels it’s necessary to take her husband’s name surprised me. Continue reading »
A study that attempts to explain why baby name popularity waxes and wanes would seem on the surface to be common sense: once a name becomes popular, no one wants it anymore.
It would explain, then, why names go out of fashion. But how do they become the hot ticket to begin with if we’re all so trendy shy? Continue reading »
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