Topic: Education

High School To Offer Bra Fittings Class

Remember how awkward it was to figure out the size you needed for bras all on your own? More »

Female Students Need More Time For Makeup, Professor Says

Normally a professor saying that classes shouldn’t be held so early is a reason to celebrate, but not when it’s because he says his female students need to have more time to get all pretty and feminine. More »

You Can Get Pregnant From Masturbation (And Other Untruths I ‘Learned’ From A Lack Of Sex Education)

Truth: teen sex happens, whether or not you acknowledge it. Also, how I learned that you cannot, in fact, get pregnant from masturbation. More »

Party Favors: Concerning Sexual Segregation

Are separate gender classrooms doing kids any good? -DoubleX

Women eat less in the company of men. -YourTango

Karen O covers Willie Nelson. -The Hairpin

Multitasking doors for decorating. -StyleList Home

Do you buy re-sold (and marked up) designer collaborations? -The High Low

Awesome: a navy smokey eye, like NARS for Rodarte. -Poshglam

More gnarly shots of model foot carnage on the runway. -The Frisky

The worst Halloween costumes on the market. -Betty Confidential

The worst hair of Paris Fashion Week! -Refinery29

Black and white and floral all over. Like Kate Moss. -College Candy

Vogue‘s Hamish Bowles auditioned for X Factor and it was delightful. -Styleite

Wedding beauty prep begins a whole year before the big day?! -Birchbox

It is possible to eat healthy on the cheap. -YouBeauty

And wear tuxedo blazers. -The Budget Babe

Well-Educated Train Lady Feels “Raped By The Internet”

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. More »

How to Read Your College Alumni Magazine

My university’s alumni magazine came in the mail – I know! The mail! People still do that! – yesterday.

1. Immediately skip to the announcements section from your class/decade. If you went to a large school, laugh about how annoying Becca from freshman comp now has five kids and lives in Milwaukee. If you went to a small school, laugh about how annoying Becca from freshman comp now has five kids and lives in Milwaukee. More »

Party Favors: Athletes Clog Drains in India with Condoms

Commonwealth Games athletes have used almost 4,000 of condoms given to them to promote safe sex during the event. Now, the New Delhi drainage systems are clogged. – Reuters

Most divorced couples have daughters. So now people are blaming girls for divorce rates. – Daily Mail

Unsure of what your “type” is? It’s most likely the kind of person your mom (if you’re a dude) or dad (if you’re a chick) is. – College Candy

If you have a college education, you’re more likely to get married. And if you’re a researcher, you clearly have nothing better to study. – Huffington Post More »

New Survey Says Whatever You Majored In Is Probably Useless

Whenever a new one of those studies about the lowest-paying college majors comes out, I always instinctively scan the list for my own majors (English Lit and Gender Studies – a lovely melange of “you will never have a job … More »

Victoria’s Secret Totally Disses My School In Its New Collegiate Collection

Victoria’s Secret’s popular Pink collection has now expanded into school-specific gear. You can find a list of all the available schools here. However, my own school – The University of North Carolina at Greensboro – did not make the cut. … More »

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