Bon's Mots
Musings of a bon vivant
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lovely day for walk along the wa­ter maybe not lol maybe a bon­fire at nite and a bot­tle of wine we could look at the stars or play in the sand just a thought lol
cudlyandsoft@xxx.xx luv to chat on msn or phone
im ital­ian french luv my cot­tage and play­ing sports an­to­nio xo you are so geor­geous wow wish we […]

Earlier this week, my friend Catherine posted a Tweet about her mother’s new web­site. It was a ges­ture from a lov­ing and proud daugh­ter — this was her mother’s first foray into so­cial net­work­ing and Catherine wanted to give the web­site a lit­tle ex­po­sure. The re­sponses from Catherine’s fol­low­ers on Twitter and Facebook were wel­com­ing, kind and gra­cious.
I re­mem­ber how nervous […]

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I re­ceived this email from an on­line dat­ing site.
Dear Antandre, Please view my pro­file and see if you will like us to be com­pan­ions. Regards — xxx
Intrigued by the fact he used proper gram­mar and spelling and didn’t fall into the usual bad first-message habits, I did view his pro­file.
Profile Name: AprilOx
I am Mature, Resourceful, and Has Initiative.
ABOUT ME: […]

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Meet Lizzie Miller.

Lizzie is a 20-year-old model who ap­pears in the cur­rent September is­sue of Glamour mag­a­zine. Lizzie has cre­ated a buz­zs­torm on the Interweb be­cause she LOOKS LIKE EVERY WOMAN YOU KNOW. A size 12 – 14, she is de­scribed in the ac­com­pa­ny­ing ar­ti­cle as “curvy”, “plus-size” and “nor­mal”.
The mag’s web­site has been in­un­dated with read­ers’ com­ments prais­ing Glamour […]

When I was in university, I took a few feminist-driven courses. In one of the classes, we were shown a pre­sen­ta­tion on sex­ism and misog­yny in ad­ver­tis­ing. Open up any fash­ion mag­a­zine, we were told, and re­ally LOOK at each im­age. Why is that women naked and sur­rounded by fully clothed, men­ac­ing men? Why is that model on her knees? […]

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