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Rihanna Speaks

Reader diary posted by Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

November 5, 2009 - 5:07pm

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The starlet acknowledges the broad problem of domestic abuse.


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Is "Obvious Child" the Abortion Rom-Com We've Been Waiting For?

Reader diary posted by Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

October 7, 2009 - 2:44pm

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A new short film rewrites the "Juno" and "Knocked Up" script.

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Accidentally Dodging the Question?

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

September 24, 2009 - 7:46pm

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I did find Accidentally on Purpose on CBS, the story of Billie, (Jenna Elfman) a movie critic who has a fling with the young, handsome, unstable Zach (Jon Foster). She quickly becomes pregnant.


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Chris Brown and Rihanna, Six Months Later

Reader diary posted by Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

September 9, 2009 - 5:22pm

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Although it's a relief that the public has finally stopped
victim-blaming with Rihanna, there's little extrapolation of the lessons we've learned in this case to the larger social patterns that affect gender-based violence everywhere.


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Kourtney's Choice

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

August 28, 2009 - 7:00am

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In America, abortion is always a choice "someone else" makes. But this is a myth and we need to face reality. Those who choose "the other option" aren't selfish, desperate or "someone else." They are our friends, our neighbors and, often, us.

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Struggle in a World of Privilege: A Mad Men Salon

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

August 21, 2009 - 7:00am

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Even as we anticipate watching the women who work at Sterling Cooper struggle with changing gender roles, we are watching that struggle take place in a privileged world.

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You Can't Keep the Lid On Forever: A Mad Men Salon

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

August 20, 2009 - 7:00am

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"Mad Men" is all about the hard truths, and the hard truth is that being a woman forging her own path in the early 60s was very lonely indeed.

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Pour A Stoli While the World Burns: A Mad Men Salon

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

August 18, 2009 - 7:00am

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Hold on to your hats: the 60s are coming to Sterling Cooper! Will Don Draper and his ilk go from icons of cool to losers holding back the tide of progress?

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"Mad Men" Salon: America's Struggle with Race, Shaken Not Stirred

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

August 14, 2009 - 7:00am

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Mad Men presents an exploration of race, class, and gender in the not-so-distant past that challenges the notion that all was well back in the day and keeps this fan coming back for more.

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Julie and Julia: the Joy of Cooking--and Sex--at All Ages

Reader diary posted by Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

August 13, 2009 - 1:56pm

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A celebration of two career women's talent
and ambition, as well as their healthy sex lives with their egalitarian
partners.


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