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Bossy Women’s Dance Club

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Raise your hand if you’ve ever been called “bossy”. Or “intimidating”. Or how about “too” anything as in […]

Amanda Shaffer 28/01/2020 Feminism, Girly Things, Random Stuff

Invitation to Discomfort

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For the first time since the slaughter of the children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, hearing […]

Amanda Shaffer 09/08/2019 Current Events, Politics, Uncategorized

Job vs Career

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When I tell the story of my career path I often use the image of a mosaic. I […]

Amanda Shaffer 23/01/2017 Current Events, Feminism, Politics

Guest Rant: The Positive Case for Hillary Clinton

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I am privileged to have some really smart friends who often write things I wish I had said […]

Amanda Shaffer 03/11/2016 Clinton, Current Events, Politics, Religion

Thank you Donald Trump

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Donald Trump is the best thing to happen to American women since Seneca Falls. In my work I get […]

Amanda Shaffer 13/10/2016 Clinton, Current Events, Feminism, Girly Things, Uncategorized

Hillary Can Join my Car Pool

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I survived watching the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The only moment that made […]

Amanda Shaffer 27/09/2016 Clinton, Current Events, Feminism, Girly Things, Politics

“Tell us what you really think”

There are lots of ways to shut down women when they are speaking. For me the one that […]

Amanda Shaffer 10/09/2014 Feminism, Girly Things, Philosophical, Politics

Abortion in Ohio

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Moral restrictions on medical procedures. That is the framework of the anti-abortion movement and other conservative positions. My […]

Amanda Shaffer 28/06/2013 Current Events, Feminism, Politics, Religion

I think its hormonal.

This was the answer given to the question “Why can’t men who have a lot of power keep […]

Amanda Shaffer 15/11/2012 Current Events, Politics

Labels

Sometimes labels are a drag, like when it allows someone to reduce you to a single characteristic, and […]

Amanda Shaffer 28/10/2012 Feminism, Politics

Stay-at-home

I was reading an article the other day on the “new trend” of dads being primary caregivers which […]

Amanda Shaffer 20/07/2012 Current Events, Pages, Politics

Blue people

It has taken me years to no longer cringe and blush when a well-meaning person mentions the “blue […]

Amanda Shaffer 27/06/2012 Philosophical
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