Dis-Oriented

by | Feb 11, 2009 | Cherchez La Femme

[If you are not in the mood/ don't have time/ too lazy to read the full post, do yourself a favor and check out the video at the end] Examining human sexuality and the way gender operates in our daily interactions with each other is a theme that can be worked into...

Eight is Enough?

by | Feb 13, 2009 | Cherchez La Femme

Nadya Suleman, the California woman who recently gave birth to octuplets (conceived by IVF), and mother of six other children including twins (also conceived by IVF), has been put through the ringer by the national press this week since information that she is single,...

Sheroes: Salma Hayek

by | Feb 17, 2009 | Cherchez La Femme

I've never breastfed (on the giving end, I mean, not the receiving end), but there seems to be a lot of hubbub about the practice. In my last post, I quoted Tim Rutten of the LA Times and pointed to what he refers to as a sense of "entitlement" when it...

Salma's Surprise

by | Feb 20, 2009 | Cherchez La Femme

So, remember my post on Salma Hayek in which she was exaulted to Shero status because she breastfed an orphan in Sierra Leone, overcoming weird parent-child loyalty issues and giving an infant some physical contact much needed in the way of his development? Well,...