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Continue reading →: Your Type Isn’t a Man.It’s an Archetype.10 Male Beauty Archetypes and what it maybe telling you. I have a theory. When women say, “I have a type,” I don’t think we’re always talking about what we think we’re talking about. Maybe you swear you have a type. Tall. Bearded. Bald. Athletic. Artistic. Tattooed. Pretty. Polished. Status.…
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Continue reading →: Let Them Eat Cake: JLo, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, & the Luxury of Being DislikedThe public loves a beautiful, ambitious woman until she stops performing for its approval. On the way up, we admire her ambition. Once she makes it, we inspect how she wears her success: too flashy, too revealing, too much, too bold. Is she grateful enough? Humble enough? The moment she…
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Continue reading →: Were You Dating a Vampire? The Post-Breakup GlowWe’ve all seen it. A woman leaves a relationship, and a few months later, she looks completely different. Her skin is glowing. She’s dressing differently. She’s laughing more. She’s outside again. There’s something about her that looks lighter. And everybody calls it the post-breakup glow. But what if she didn’t…
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Continue reading →: The Care Bear Method: Radiate, Don’t AbsorbWhen I was a kid, Care Bears was just a cute cartoon. Colorful bears lived above the clouds, traveled on rainbows, and whenever negativity threatened their world, they joined together and used the Care Bear Stare. But watching it through adult eyes makes me wonder: What if the Care Bears…
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Continue reading →: The Good Wife: What My Mother’s Hair Taught Me About WomanhoodThere is a memory from my childhood that has stayed with me for years. My mother had gotten her hair done. That alone made the occasion memorable because she didn’t get her hair professionally done very often. Most of the time, I remember her wearing French braids or wigs. But…
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Continue reading →: Hillary Banks & Elle Woods Raised Me: What Fictional Women Teach Us about Who We’re Allowed to BecomeI would playfully say that Hilary Banks and Elle Woods raised me. On the surface, it sounds like a joke: a spoiled Black princess from Bel-Air and a pink-clad sorority girl who takes Harvard Law by storm. But the more closely we examine these characters, the more interesting the statement…
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Continue reading →: She Isn’t Prettier Than You: Why Understanding Beauty Archetypes Can End the CompetitionI think one of the greatest things a woman can learn about beauty is that beauty does not have one face. For a long time, we’ve treated beauty as though it exists through a single lens. She’s prettier. Her body is better. Her face is better. Men like her more.…
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Continue reading →: The Scarcity Mindset of the Serial CheaterThere is a theory about serial cheaters that I have never completely understood. When a man repeatedly cheats on his wife or girlfriend, eventually someone says: Maybe he secretly likes men. And I’ve always wondered: How did we get there? Sexuality is far too complex to diagnose someone’s orientation based…
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Continue reading →: The Burning Bush: Faith in what could not be explainedWe know the story of Abraham and Moses. We have the luxury of the next chapter. And the more I think about these men, the more I see two master manifestors: men who were willing to believe in something before there was physical evidence that it would happen. Abraham was…
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Continue reading →: May You Be the Daughter of Lilith and EveMay you inherit the parts of womanhood they told you could never exist inside the same woman. From Lilith, may you inherit your refusal. The ability to say no without writing a dissertation explaining why. The courage to leave the table. May you be sensual without being owned. Beautiful without…
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