I loved, loved, loved the series. I’ve quoted the episodes on this blog ad infinitum. Look, I even have a special SATC quote generator running in my sidebar!! And of course I went for the movie with my galpals decked out to the nines and full of trepedition. The movie wasn’t quite as great but [...]

My new literary obsession is Chick Lit. Helen Fielding, Sophie Kinsella and Marian Keyes keep me in chocolate-box mood while Meera Syal and Advaita Kala add the desi tadka. Why, even fellow-blogger/’I-know-this-girl-friend-acquaintance’ Compulsive Confessor flashes her characteristic grin at me from my bedside bookstack.
I found this rather interesting piece on the internet, describing Chick Lit:
“Chick lit” is [...]

Meetu’s little girl is learning all about gender roles and what she can use to her advantage.
It makes me wonder whether the gender stereotypes are really learnt or whether women just are smarter.

This post (quite unexpectedly) brought in several responses.
Shefaly is a feminist and not ashamed of it. She also identifies it so strongly with her identity that she believes that all women are feminists. And she asks,
Why is it that it is ok for groups to huddle together if they play basketball or run marathons or [...]

They wonder why I have such a poor opinion of men
And then they go and prove me right.
Thanks, Neanderthal man, feel free to call me the Abusive Woman. You may never have abused a woman in your life but with this post you’ve given the opposite sex a good chance to call you and your [...]

A good conversation is one that leads to several more. And I had the benefit of one such conversation with the queen of desi blogdom. Do check out her starting post on what we were talking about, ending with a promise to take it furthur. I’ll put up my thoughts on this as well, shortly.

The worst thing you can do to another human being is to kill them and make it look like suicide. Or hurt them and make them believe that it is their fault.
The Girl with a one-track mind shares a horrific experience and its aftermath.
He raped me throughout the night as I tried to sleep.
He called [...]

One of the sweetest women I know is facing a personal crisis. But she finds that her pain and her fears act as a shining beacon on her secret hopes and desires. And from that emerges some profound spiritual insight as well.
I have been struggling every moment with questions that echo, reflect and get thrown [...]

Greek Alphabet asks how I react when a man tells me,
You are not the woman I thought you were.
You are still a girl.
Being a classic multiple-choice-answerer (haven’t you noticed I’m a blogger in the plural?), here’s what I would say to:
The I-lurrrve-him-sooo-much guy:
(Click each thumbnail to see full comic)

The I’m-gonna-bust-his-balls guy:

The I’m-sitting-on-my-hands-to-keep-from-grabbing-him guy:  

The infuriating-yet-he-stays friend:

The [...]

Alphabet Soup sets me thinking with,
Relationships are so much like going shopping for clothes.
While The Lady counters that,
They either want you, or they don’t. There is NO in-between.
I’ve been on both sides…the garment and the wearer, so to speak. And I wonder…do some of us simply fall in love with people because they are in [...]

Sakshi says that,
Law of Close Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.
The XXFactor corollary to that says,
The probability of meeting someone you don’t want to meet increases when you are with:

the person you want to show your best self to (a.k.a. [...]

Heeheehee….got this picture off The Lady’s post.

It reminded me of the time my friend got married. The pre-wedding days were a time of much mirth for the cronies of the bride and groom. But of course. We were such a bunch of wits.
For the wedding night, we decided ‘as good friends’, we’d make things as [...]

Rambler asks what we think of this crazy little thing called love…though he calls it attraction. Ah…a rose by any other name would have the same thorns..
Attraction, a thought which keeps baffling me day in and day out. what it about attraction which makes it hard to define?, why is it that we get attracted [...]

So never mind nauseatingly sweet relationships, Chronicus Skepticus tells us how yet another holy (-ier-than-thou) bond has been corrupted in our day and age.
I read this awhile ago and grimaced. On reflection though, I am sorry for the people who fall into the categories she describes. After all, emotions are universally human and attraction/affection is [...]

Oh brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! I’m getting the new fairy-tales I asked for! Lady obliges with a new fairy-tale for the modern woman. Even if it does begin with
Once upon a time…
and ends in
…happily ever after.
Let me suggest a title for this one – Narrow Escape.

Yes, this absolutely deserves to be bookmarked! The Delectable Deb lady tells us about a new species of man that she encounters. We think that Chameleon Boy best describes our own attempts to define the strange species that we keep bumping into.
The main bone of contention as I see it is the fact that man [...]

Just finished reading a hilarious book. It’s called The bluffer’s guide to men. It isn’t so much what the book says as how it says it. Everyday, feminist/male-bashing XX Factor-type of commonsense is put into really funny revelations. I quote…oh but wait. I started to pick out my favorite lines and then realised I’d end [...]

Tongue-in-cheek, Chronicus Skepticus tells us that,
I think boobs are a bad design feature. Really. I think I might’ve even been lesbian if it weren’t for boobs.
Hahahahahaha! That was so well put, I almost missed the full impact of her proclamation. I tend to agree…somewhat. Purely from the aesthetic point of view (now that the Aspirational [...]

Okay, okay so I’m too hot-headed in my opinions. Hear it from someone who says it with far more panache! But S, do men EVER learn???

And to those who think the modern woman is positively a bitch, here’s Mishi laying out all the ways she’s really a treasure!