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	<title>Carolyn Edgar</title>
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	<description>Notes of a lawyer, writer, and single mom</description>
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		<title>Solo Mom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“He just left he didn’t tell anyone he was leaving!!!!!” That was the frantic text I received from my then-15-year-old daughter last year, after her father left her alone in the hospital where she was being treated for infection stemming from a tongue piercing – a piercing she got the day I left the country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lecturing the Poor Doesn’t Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing up in Detroit in the 70s, back when Motown was more than just a show on Broadway, I was privileged to have a number of Motown stars visit my schools. They included Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, and The Spinners. After performing a hit song or two, they&#8217;d give a brief speech about staying in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronicles of Pookie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first serious boyfriend was a guy named Pookie. Pookie wore a shoulder-length Jheri-curl shag &#8212; the &#8217;80s black dude version of the mullet &#8212; and drove a Datsun 280ZX. Few things were as enjoyable to Pookie as an ice-cold 40 (or several) at the end of a long week. I didn&#8217;t know him as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tyler Perry’s Rape Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trigger warnings: rape, sexual assault, acquaintance rape, Tyler Perry A week after rapper Rick Ross found himself in hot water over a lyric that was said to promote date rape, producer and director Tyler Perry found himself facing questions about a scene in his latest movie, &#8220;Tyler Perry&#8217;s Temptation,&#8221; in which a character appears to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working Women Blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of talk in the media lately about women in the workplace. From Anne-Marie Slaughter&#8217;s complaining about not &#8220;having it all,&#8221; to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg exhorting women to &#8220;lean in&#8221; to their careers (translation: suck it up) and not let little things like babies disrupt their rise to the top, to Yahoo CEO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standards – How Many of Us Have Them?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warning: this post uses adult language. &#8212;&#8212; A recent post on Samantha Irby&#8217;s profane and hilarious blog bitchesgottaeat,  begs women to stop settling for sex with jerks instead of dates with decent men. The post was a response, of sorts, to a New York Times article that surveyed the modern dating scene and found it seriously wanting. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walking While Female</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The whole moment lasted only a few seconds. I was walking east on 40th Street from Times Square. For exercise, I decided to walk instead of taking the crosstown shuttle, even though my wonky knee had been particularly bothersome that day &#8212; likely from overdoing it in Bikram yoga, limping through my New Year&#8217;s resolution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What About Adam Lanza’s Father?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the horrific mass murder in Newtown, Connecticut, in which a young man named Adam Lanza killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, then apparently took her guns, burst through security at Sandy Hook Elementary School and murdered 20 children and six adults, people are understandably asking &#8220;Why?&#8221; One attempt to answer was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sean Fury and the Power of Self-Confidence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sean Fury brings me joy. If you haven&#8217;t experienced Sean Fury, let me correct that oversight for you right now. Someone on YouTube referred to Sean Fury&#8217;s &#8220;Biracial Girl&#8221; as his &#8220;Billie Jean.&#8221; I&#8217;ll let you judge for yourself. But Sean Fury is not just a singer-slash-dancer-slash-songwriter. As his bio notes, he&#8217;s is an &#8220;everythinger&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War on Men?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s fitting that I read Stephanie Coontz&#8217;s New York Times&#8217; op-ed, &#8220;The Myth of Male Decline,&#8221; the day before reading Suzanne Venker&#8217;s anti-feminist &#8220;war on men.&#8221;  If women are waging a war on men, they are, to borrow a phrase from President Obama, fighting a nuclear war with horses and bayonets. But Venker isn&#8217;t interested [...]]]></description>
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