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		<title>The Skinny and the Scoop from Two Women Entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2010/06/the-skinny-on-the-skinnyscoop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[eden godsoe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[erin crocker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are hooked on the TheSkinnyScoop, an online surveying tool for women. While our first impression of this website was, &#8221;It&#8217;s just another resource for women who over-engineer parenting,&#8221; the SkinnyScoop is more than we thought. For starters, the site sets itself apart from other resources that feed on mothers&#8217; insecurities. SkinnyScoop provides information direct from other women without any editorializing or product pitches. And, it goes beyond parenting and poses questions like &#8220;Have you ever hit the glass ceiling at work?&#8221; (Okay, so we posted that one.) As SkinnyScoop founders Eden Godsoe and Erin Crocker point out, when it comes to most family and household decisions, women call the shots. At SkinnyScoop, they can find and share information to make sure they spend wisely &#8211; and as you know, we are big fans of women using their purchasing power for good not evil. Says Godsoe, &#8220;The whole idea behind SkinnyScoop is that women seek out the advice of other women for our purchase choices and other major decisions.  We want to know how our girlfriends and other women we respect have tackled the same issue or purchase.&#8221; Godsoe and Crocker met when they were roommates at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Crocker is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Women Have Pores</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post started a new feature called The Big Picture. It is quite simply that: big pictures of celebrities. In these high def images you can see lines, makeup smudges and peach fuzz on famous faces. These are the same people we usually see airbrushed and softened to perfection. So far the site has featured Lindsey Lohan, Sting and Elizabeth Hurley. The HuffPo doesn’t say on its site what the point of the feature is, leaving us to believe it is merely a grab for readers and not a statement on the entertainment industry and body image. If it&#8217;s supposed to be an honest look at the stars, it fails. The pictures might be up-close and hi-def but the celebrities have still been made up, fluffed and styled to perfection –something a &#8220;real &#8221; person doesn&#8217;t  have access to before heading out for say, oh I don&#8217;t know, a PTO fundraiser. If it&#8217;s supposed to shock us, leaving us gasping, &#8220;Lindsay has pores!&#8221; It fails. We knew Lindsay had pores because we have pores. And so do our sisters, friends and neighbors. The entertainment industry may feed us beautiful images every day but we are also exposed to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook: People Magazine for the Rest of Us</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2009/10/facebook-people-magazine-for-the-rest-of-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is anyone else over Facebook? I am so over Facebook. I don’t really have a problem with the social networking site itself. But the status updates – make them stop. In my small circle of friends anyway, Facebook has turned into the celebrity &#8220;mom&#8221; profile in People or Ladies Home Journal. You know those horrible profiles I am referring to – the ones about Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta Jones and how fabulous their lives are, and how complete motherhood has made them, and how easily they got their pre-baby bodies back, and how wonderful their marriages are, and how fulfilling their careers are, and how those careers take a back seat to parenting but yet they still make seven figures? Besides the fact that those profiles are complete and utter bullshit, they do a disservice to women. It is not helpful for the media to bombard us with messages about perfect women, with perfect bodies, living perfect lives, with perfect spouses. What&#8217;s the point? These stories omit the parts about the personal trainers and nutritionists who helped the celebs get back in shape, or the fact they are getting paid big bucks to get those bodies back, or the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome Ladies</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2009/10/welcome-ladies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminist Forte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drop Dead Diva]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I travel in two crowds. The first is a group of amazing women –feminists who are articulate, engaged and sometimes outraged by the status of women and women&#8217;s rights. They are activists, writers, and all around really cool chicks (although some of them might take offense at the term &#8220;chicks&#8221;).  I don’t really spend that much time with them outside of Facebook, Twitter, blogs and Google groups. But I admire, respect and relate to them and to many others.  The second is another group of amazing women – my friends and neighbors &#8211; mothers who are committed to their families – especially their children, and are involved in the schools and their communities.  I do hang out with them, when our  schedules permit, and I also admire, respect and relate to them.  Unlike the first group of women, this group rarely mentions feminism and may not even self identify as feminists. On paper, these two groups appear radically different. But I know there is plenty of common ground. Group one discusses equal pay, reproductive rights, violence against women, misogynistic media practices. Group two is more likely to talk about Drop Dead Diva, soccer practice and PTO. But their lives are [...]]]></description>
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