Vain Feminist
Musings on beauty and aging, and the connections between body, image, and self.
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Shame, Feminism, and Face-Lifts (opens the original)
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It’s Like Riding a Bike (opens the original)
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I’m going on a bike trip in a few days and I have a tiny problem. I’m afraid of biking.I should clarify that the bike trip is a self-guided, not-intensive 4-day tour in western Ireland. So, this isn’t exactly the Tour de France, and key to the whole reason my husband and I signed up for this is that it’s on e-bikes. My thought at the time was, how hard could it be? Isn’t e-biking like regular biking but just easier?But then this happened: we tried out some friends’ e-bikes on a quiet suburban st
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