In a surprise move, it’s trendy to look like skeletor. I can’t say that I’m terribly thrilled or shocked about this recent turn of events. With voluminous spring fashions, the hot part of your body to show off is your clavicle. The clavic-what? It’s that bone between your collarbones, prominent on super-skinny celebs like Kate Bosworth and Kiera Knightly.

Even though everyone and their mom is obsessed with thinness, it’s definitely a strange part of the body to be stressing about. I mean, it’s just a little bone. The real appeal of showing this bit off is that it proves that under your billowy new dress, you’re skinny little thing. “The clothing threatens to make you look overweight and so you need a certain body to undo that threat,” said an expert on women and beauty, “In that clothing, one has to find a way of revealing an authentically thin body.” How delightfully twisted. Read More »

I graduate in a couple weeks. Yes, I have come to terms with this and my emotional breakdowns have decreased to only once a week. Instead of wistfully reminiscing about each of my crazy college years and dispensing advice, I am now starting to look to the future as a mature adult…or something like that.

Facebook has been one topic of discussion lately for my graduating peers, and I still have not reached any conclusion yet. After college, is it considered weird to still be on facebook all the time? Should I switch to a more grown-up social networking site? Not that I know of any certain ones that exist, but it seems like the word, facebook, equals college in many minds. Would creating a myspace account take care of this issue? For some reason, myspace makes me think of creepy old men stalking the profiles of thirteen year old girls.

When I really think about deactivating my precious facebook account in hopes of gaining a real life, my heart starts to race and I get nervous that I will lose touch with all of my 508 ‘friends’.

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Effortlessly pretty, smart and popular … that’s what all of us girls have wanted to be since we hit middle school. It’s the ultimate package and everyone idolizes it, right?

Now that I’ve outgrown much of my adolescent insecurities, small-minded desires and done a little research, I’ve come to realize that there is a shitload of pressure on young girls to be perfect — look hot, get A’s, have a ton of friends … We’re told from the early age of like four that we can be anything we want to be, do anything boys can do — and we always have that in our heads to an extent.

A girl who encompasses all of this is referred to as an “Amazing Girl” according to recent NYTimes article. She’s defined as “high achieving, ambitious and confident” and she does absolutely everything: “varsity sports, student government, theater, community service.”

Although I can’t say I’ve been one to have all that, let alone be willing to juggle a bajillion things, I can remember seeming to always want it — that perfect life, where everything goes right. Read More »