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Ms. Opinionated: All the Advice You Asked For, and Some You Didn't

Ms. Opinionated post by Megan Carpentier on October 24, 2012 - 7:25am; tagged advice, female friendship, female friendships, Friends, male friendship, ms opinionated.

Megan Carpentier, a.k.a. Ms. Opinionated

Welcome back to "Ms. Opinionated," Bitch's new advice column, in which readers have questions about the pesky day-to-day choices we all face, and I give advice about how to makes ones that (hopefully) best reflect our shared commitment to feminist values—as well as advice on what to do when they don't.

Next up: How can a "shy, teetoaling, agnostic feminist" find new friends after realizing her regular circle's gotten smaller than she's comfortable with?

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Ms. Opinionated: All the Advice You Asked For, and Some You Didn't

Ms. Opinionated post by Megan Carpentier on October 17, 2012 - 10:07am; tagged boyfriend, dating, female friendships, feminism, Friends, love and marriage, marriage, ms opinionated, relationship advice.

Megan Carpentier, a.k.a. Ms. Opinionated

Welcome to "Ms. Opinionated," Bitch's new advice column, in which readers have questions about the pesky day-to-day choices we all face, and I give advice about how to makes ones that (hopefully) best reflect our shared commitment to feminist values—as well as advice on what to do when they don't.

First up: What do you do with a boyfriend who pooh-poohs your commitment to feminism because "men and women are totally equal now"?

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Thinking Kink: Is Vanilla Sex Boring? Who Gets to Decide?

Sex and Sexuality post by Catherine Scott on July 16, 2012 - 10:35am; tagged Andrea Dworkin, BDSM, Clarisse Thorn, Friends, Peep Show, Vanilla.

As kink continues to infiltrate the mainstream media so does its accompanying lingo, and one of the terms that's bugging non-kinksters is "vanilla." As folks who've fought against negative labels themselves, should BDSM practitioners quit bandying around this term? Or do we just need to redefine "vanilla" as an equally acceptable sexual choice?

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Whee! #1

We love Claire from 90210. She’s so brainy; she’s so hot. She never plays dumb for the boys and she gets to fuck them anyway... Yay for the recent changes in Ms. Not that we didn’t adore it before, but now we’re foaming at the mouth with love... Good for NBC for making visible the covert racism of Friends in a promo for David Schwimmer’s SNL appearance... We were pleasantly surprised by a recent "What Women Want" roundtable in GQ (August 1995)...

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