At this point, it takes a lot to shock me when it comes to using women's naked bodies to sell other products. Yet back in late April, I ripped an ad for Cabana Cachaha Brazilian rum out of the May 5 issue of New York Magazine. The black and white print ad featured a super slim, utterly hairless, totally naked-sans-a-thong-tan -line-and-stilettos woman on lifting her perfect nude ass in the air and arching her back. In small print at the bottom, viewers were promised uncensored photos, footage, and more online. Curious, I headed over, but it wasn't up and running.

Have you seen the article in Glamour about the 11 greatest bodies on Earth? Glamour Magazine has a feature this month where they decided that since we will be watching the Olympics for the rest of the Summer they would focus on eleven women athletes (that are in the Olympics) who possess the "greatest bodies on Earth".

I've been doing pretty good on my...Not really a diet, diet. Basically, I have lost most of the weight I had gained since last year's BlogHer conference. It's really amazing how easy it is to gain twenty pounds when you're not looking. I blame it on the whole love/hate relationship with my scale thing. Anyway, now I am faced with a dilemma...To diet, or not to diet, at the BlogHer conference?

I've been struggling with a secret, which is this: I'm really, really not in love with my body right now. I have, been keeping it secret for two reasons: 1) it's totally new to me - I've never really struggled with my body image, even after my last pregnancy, which added padding where no padding had hitherto existed, and so it just feels foreign and weird and (obviously) bad, and 2) it also feels so, I don't know, anti-feminist or anti-woman or anti-me (which, really, collapses into a kind of counter-womanism, to be anti-yourself as a woman) and I just so don't want to be that.

Silly me. Just when I was getting comfortable with my body as it is, the blessed Style section of New York Times reminds me that if I don't engage in "pelvic fitness," my vagina could "become almost scrotal, very wrinkly and lax." Who knew?

What won't Fox News do for ratings? Clearly, there is nothing they won't do. I was sick last night when I briefly flipped to Fox News, to find them using the suicide of a young model for nothing more than ratings. What I saw was not news, it was a tabloid. I wasn't the only one who was outraged by the disrespectful coverage... This is from a post at Bubblegum Culture...