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I just read an article on Yahoo! News about a public swimming pool in France that has banned the "burquini" - a swimming costume designed to protect the modesty of Islamic women. Of course, there is plenty of outrage over the situation. One woman even called it segregation! This is… Read More »
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Even though we're not yet engaged, I can't seem to stop thinking about planning a wedding.
On one hand, I'm so excited to have found the man of my dreams, my soulmate, that I feel that we will make it work perfectly regardless of how the wedding shakes... Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (5) | Blog
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I live in an apartment building, and while the walls are thick enough most of the time, tonight I overheard a lot of yelling and even some smashing of items in the next apartment. I turned down the tv and listened in - at first because it sounded so scary I was concerned about someone...
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My boyfriend and I haven’t always been long-distance. There was a good long time before we were separated that we were attached at the hip, literally leaving parties to go home and talk to no one but each other. When he left to pursue his dream of being an optometrist, we...
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My boyfriend is my best friend, my knight in shining armor. The trouble, though, is that shortly before we met he'd accepted an offer to move away to go to graduate school. So we'd been together less than a year when he left. We agreed that if it lasted, I'd move out to be... Read More »
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Marriage has its origins in property law. This is the simple, irrefutable truth. In the ancient world, a man would sell his daughter to another man. Her sexuality was then tightly controlled in order to ensure that any children she had were the rightful, biological inheritors of...
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You know what I dream of? A world in which marriage is seperated forever from inheritance law. In olden days, the ancient and medieval West, a woman was regarded as a vessel for her husband's children. She was sold by her father to another man as chattel, and her sexuality was tightly controlled...
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[Ed note --The election may be over but the conversations keep on going. Help this Shine reader find ways to talk politics with her relatives before a family feud erupts.]
Most of my family leans one way politically, and I lean another. I love them but sometimes it makes...
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I started this week with such a feeling of contentment, because I really felt that I had figured myself out at long last. I looked around at the people in my office, most of whom ignore me or talk down to me, and I wondered why I suck so much at office work. I don't have the attention to detail...
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Earlier this month, my boyfriend and I spent a week on vacation. It was partly a celebration of a year and a half together, and partly just some quality time before he goes back to school and our lives get all crazy and separate again. The problem, though, is this: if I had just taken that week off... Read More »
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