• The other day, Sweet Machine alerted me to a new study about the influence of media on relationship ideals. According to BBC News, the study [...]

  On Twilight, romance, and antifeminist ideas

  December 21, 2008
• Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape, edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti is in stores now! I [...]

  Yes Means Yes is out!

  December 18, 2008
• Longtime Shapelings will already be familiar with my dear friend Cacie from the “To hell with tiny pants” post. When I heard the [...]

  Guest Blogger Cacie: Missing the Point

  December 18, 2008
• Check out what’s going on in the Shapeling community. We are pushing 700 members! If I could make virtual confetti and balloons drop on [...]

  Best of

  December 16, 2008

• So, New York Governor David Paterson is proposing a tax on sugared soft drinks (among other things), and apparently calling it an “obesity [...]

  On the “Obesity Tax”

  December 15, 2008
• Hey, anyone who will be in or around Chicago between now and the end of the month, if you go to the awesome plus-size boutique Vive la [...]

  Chicagoans: Shapeling Discount at Vive la Femme

  December 13, 2008
• So, in keeping with what I preach, I no longer read fashion magazines and thus have no real idea what’s in style at any given moment. But I [...]

  Black Tights with a Dressy Dress: Yea or Nay?

  December 11, 2008
• Via Big Fat Blog, I just learned about Oak Park alteration shop Sew Particular‘s “Help Me Stay in Business Sale.” Sew [...]

  Chicago Shapelings: Help a Local Business

  December 10, 2008

• Dear Oprah, Please just stop. Please. And I don’t mean that in a nasty way (though some of my commenters will). I mean please, stop doing [...]

  Dear Oprah

  December 9, 2008
• We are totally thrilled that over 300 of you have joined the freshly minted Shapely Prose community at Ning. If you haven’t joined yet, go [...]

  Weekly-ish best of

  December 8, 2008