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Katie J.M. Baker
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The layouts are nice, but I never liked Teen Vogue. The pieces are so fluffy (like, BREAKING: some girls drink alcohol!) and they only ever profile socialites or celebrity kids or the kids of celebrities. I have an inside joke with myself (I'm cool) that you can literally always find Harley Viera-Newton somewhere Read more

I liked reading Cosmo when I was a teen because it was soooo scandalous, not because I actually used the tips. I felt too old and wise for the "move your tongue around like you're drawing the letters of the alphabet" advice but too young for the sex stuff, I just read it because it was fun to laugh about with my Read more

Yes, exactly! Or, I don't think it's just just Jezebel that has made these magazines seem dated (although, thanks!), but the proliferation of free, unedited, exciting content out there on the internet, much of which is actually made by teenagers. I liked Seventeen fine, but it was more because there wasn't really Read more

Many are, yep. See here http://jezebel.com/5916984/taxpayer+funded-crisis-pregnancy-centers-hire-only-christians Read more

Well, that's exactly it. I have no problem with the services they're offering, but they should make it clear that they're faith-based and provide and refer to services as such instead of masquerading as unbiased health clinics. Read more

To further highlight how deceptive some of these clinics are: I used to work at the SF Chronicle, and I was once researching a story on abortion clinics and Googled "Where do I get an abortion in San Francisco?" to find some numbers. I called the first clinic that showed up — First Resort — and was confused when they Read more

Hey, we're going to ask for suggestions next month, after we're done with this one. Promise! Read more

I didn't realize that marriage was only a "lady" subject; men don't get married, too? Men don't write about relationships/marriage/divorce? Read more

This is only the first month we're doing this; we didn't get any sci-fi suggestions. Next month we'll open it up to you guys and will be sure to have some sci-fi on there. Read more

Hmm, I have a Good Reads account but only use it to keep track of the books I recommend to people. Would that get confusing if we had a group outside of this one? I'll look into it...but we want to have the discussions on here. Read more

You definitely should! There's so much I want to say about it but I'd rather not ruin it for you. Read more

You mean you will be VOTING for I Love Dick! This is a democracy! (And hopefully will be more organized than the IRL book club we're in...) Read more

Am I allowed to try and sway you? I've only read four of these books: Zelda, which is INCREDIBLE (and I don't even care about the Fitzgeralds all that much; I only read it because I received it as a gift and was bored on an airplane. I read it back in January, and I still think about it all of the time); Gone Girl, Read more

Eh, this campaign would have done nothing for my younger self. The reason I hated sports from a very young age was because I was the shortest person in my class and therefore was consistently picked last, which made me dread gym class and shun all sports so I could say I didn't like them anyway when no one wanted me Read more

I'm curious: how many of us are going to go on the pill/get counseling/get insurance who couldn't afford it before? Read more

I'm petite, and I have a ton of free t-shirts that I sleep in because I'm used to being smaller than the norm. I never really thought about it as a gendered thing; more of an "I'm 5'2''" thing. Still, I think the way Google responded to the woman's complaint is kind of awesome — too bad they didn't respond to the Read more