Topic: self-confidence

How To Take Compliments: A Guide For The Insecure Woman

"We accept the love we think we deserve"

You see you differently than everybody else sees you

The other day, our writer Amanda reflected on how she wishes she could learn to take a compliment after an uncomfortable incident with a flattering partner. For those who hate links, the gist of the situation: he called her sexy, she got annoyed, he insisted she learn to take a compliment, she got angry, he got upset, she told him he would soon lose a testicle if he pushed the discussion further. As she wrote, all Amanda really wants to say to those who flatter her is, “Shut the fuck up and quit being nice for the sake of being nice,” but wondered if anybody else had advice on how to take a compliment.

Including some suggestions from you readers, here are a few recommendations for those (myself included) who have a bit of a hard time with flattery. More »

Poll: Are You Not Pretty Enough For Your Partner? (Even Olivia Wilde Has Her Doubts)

If you feel like this, you wouldn’t be alone. Even Olivia Wilde has her doubts. More »

Can Everybody Please Stop Copying Kate Middleton’s Looks Via Plastic Surgery?

“I would try to imagine what my face would look like with a nose like Kate’s, because I’ve always hated my own…” More »

Middle Schoolers React To Photoshopped Images In Seventeen Magazine

“No one is that shiny.” More »

Bullish: Is It Better to Rule Through Love or Fear?

Is it better to rule through love or fear? Machiavelli always gets a bad rap (much like Draco and Procrustes). In The Prince, however, Machiavelli didn’t actually suggest that ruling through fear was the superior method; he said that a ruling through a combination of love and fear was best, but if you had to pick one, fear is safer.

Of course, none of us are actually ruling a Florentine principality during the Renaissance, but I naturally recalled my tenth grade reading assignment when a fellow committee member for a conference I am planning told me that a few other committee members were scared of me (or, at least, scared of messing up around me). That’s … interesting. I mean, I’m not scary. I’m Ashlee Simpson-sized. I wear a lot of Ann Taylor. I like babies and pets. More »

Glamour Is…

“Glamour” is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it. Marlene Dietrick I think … More »