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Why Don't Petite Girls Get Criticized

Cynthia Cheng Mintz | Posted 05.01.2013 | Canada Style
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Cynthia Cheng Mintz

It really bothers me that mainstream body image activists tend to pick and choose their battles, focusing primarily on larger sizes and sexuality while ignoring the small. When being small is ever even mentioned, it's often lip service. At best, they acknowledge that it is an issue, and then never discuss it again unless someone else brings it up.

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Why Some Women Will Never Be Happy With Proof of Equality

Carrie Lukas | Posted 10.16.2012 | Canada Business
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Carrie Lukas

Few topics stir up more heated debate than how women fare in the workforce. Bloomberg columnist Ramesh Ponnuru recently took on this issue, detailing research that shows discrimination isn't the primary reason why men continue to out-earn women. Yet the bearers of this good news for women -- and it is good news, after all -- are derided as women's enemies. Why are cheerleaders for women's equality so disturbed by research revealing that their cause is further along than they thought?

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Spandex Is Making You Fat

Jezebel | Posted 02.11.2012 | Canada Style
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You may not immediately understand why an article about the rise of spandex in the past 50 years is framed as a story about the obesity problem in Ame...

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