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Stop Knocking Dad’s Parenting Abilities
by Abby W. Schachter Source: shine.yahoo.com Over at Slate, Melinda Wenner Moyer has written a stinging rebuke to parents who are reluctant to have men care for their young children. Her column, “In...
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One Way to Resurrect Manliness: Everyone, Dress Better!
by Abby W. Schachter Source: The Telegraph Can men be men again? The short answer is no. And the reason is that we are not living in the same society that produced the archetype of the manly-man:...
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Some Imaginative Oscar Acceptance Speeches
by Abby W. Schachter Source: pbs.com As the Guardian’s Tom Shone explains, far from being insincere, Oscar speeches may be one of the few times when actors tell the truth.” After all, Shone argues,...
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Could Today’s “American Girl” Be Any Blander?
by Abby W. Schachter Have you read any of the American Girl books? I just finished the 2013 Girl of the Year installment about a 4th-grader named Saige and, as my first introduction into the juggernaut...
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Ben Affleck and Why Marriage Matters
by Abby W. Schachter Source: People There was a lot of talk last week about the meaning and definition of marriage. Most of that chatter centered on Ben Affleck’s remarks at the Oscars when he picked...
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Post of the Week
Abby W. Schachter has this week’s Post of the Week with her lovely piece on Ben and Jen and why marriage matters. Check it out!
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The Acculturated Podcast: Rod Dreher Goes Back Home
by Emily Esfahani Smith On this new edition of the Acculturated podcast, Ben Domenech and Abby Schachter chat with the author Rod Dreher about his beautiful and moving new book, The Little Way of...
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A More Dire Assessment of Work-Life Balance: Erin Callan vs. Sheryl Sandberg
by Abby W. Schachter Ryan Duffy wrote earlier this week about the brouhaha over Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook and the author of a new controversial book called Lean In: Women, Work and the Will...
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Bollywood Films Showcase Love Stories without Irony
by Abby W. Schachter There are a lot of characteristics that make Bollywood movies so different from standard Hollywood fare. Since I’m a just a fan rather than an expert, let’s focus on just a few of...
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Nicole and Paris, Ten Years Later
by Abby W. Schachter “You have to remember that I was 20 years old. I don’t know anybody who can look back at who they were at 20 and say, ‘I’m the exact same person,” Nicole Richie told Ocean Drive...
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