As I wrote in Learning to Speak Hookup: A Pocket Phrasebook, the vocabulary surrounding the navigation of sex and relationships has become nearly incomprehensible. In the Hookup language, there are many irregularities and exceptions to the rule. It’s also heavily dependent on context. With so much misunderstanding, young people spend a great deal of time [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Mar 18, 2009 in
Girl Talk,
Tidbits I’m away for a couple of days, but I’m leaving you some toys to play with:
1. Check out Pixcetera’s fascinating look at what magazines do to photos of celebrities. I’ll take Robert Pattinson both Before and After. Love the unibrow, love the crooked nose, love the bed hair. Bite me.
2. Blair Thill, a graduating senior [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Mar 10, 2009 in
Hooking Up Realities,
Tidbits
Once a week, Daily Intel takes a peek behind doors left slightly ajar.
We all need guilty pleasures. I’ve gotten totally addicted to the weekly Sex Diary at New York Magazine. That’s OK, right? Not too sketchy or anything, right? Right. Well, who cares what you think.
It is a fascinating feature where each week a guest [...]
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There’s this guy named Joe Webb. He’s a doctoral student at St. Louis University, and he writes a blog for college students that is awesome. In fact, I find much of his information useful and you know I’m waaaaaayyyyyy past that life phase. He is funny and irreverent, two things I hope I am sometimes, [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Jan 8, 2009 in
Tidbits I am obsessed with Jane Austen. Love love love her books. Jane Austen is the mother of all chick lit, and Pride and Prejudice is the best book ever written, IMHO. Not only is it a great, great read, but I believe that all men can be classified as either Mr. Darcys, Mr. Wyckams, Mr. [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Jan 6, 2009 in
Relationship Strategies,
What Guys Want “Never frown, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile.”
Anonymous
Many women make the mistake of thinking that if a guy finds them attractive, they are on the path to a relationship. Even though they understand that the path may be full of twists and turns, still they believe that attracting [...]
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