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    Zeynep Lokmanoglu

    Zeynep Lokmanoglu

    Contributor

  • Myth Of Male Weakness And The Three Date Rule

    For all the very real progress we've made in recent years in breaking free of unhappy sexual stereotypes, one tired old trope has proved remarkably durable: the idea that straight men are utterly petrified of commitment. Never mind the truth that there are plenty of guys who would like to "settle down," and plenty of women who'd be more than happy to avoid a monogamous relationship.

  • Why Rihanna And Chris Brown Reunion Collaboration Won't Erase The Past

    Brown joined Rihanna for a few verses on the innuendo-iced "Birthday Cake," and she reciprocated with vocals on his club jam "Turn Up the Music." Considering the pair's well-known history of domestic violence, the new music has been greeted, to put it mildly, with consternation.

  • Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's Smart Advice For Mexico's First Female Presidential Candidate

    Earlier this month, Josefina Vazquez Mota became Mexico's first female presidential candidate backed by a major party. In the fall, when she was still a "precandidate," I heard Vázquez Mota speak. In a wide-ranging conversation that covered education (she used to be the country's education secretary), the drug wars, and other topics, she also told the assembled group of journalists and policymakers about wise words Argentine President Cristina Kirchner once shared with her.

  • 7 Reasons You Should Reach Out To Every Person Ever

    This sounds grim, but it's not! There is a freedom in realizing and embracing the fact that at the end of the day you're sitting in your own skin with your own thoughts and realities. One of the most beautiful parts of being alive and continually pushed into the world is knowing that every single person on the planet also goes to bed in their own skin, with their own thoughts and realities. Learning and exploring new people offers you the opportunity to change some wobbly realities you've created and equally allows you to challenge someone else's.

  • 5 Start-Ups To Watch From The Women 2.0 PITCH Conference

    When Shaherose Charania came to Silicon Valley from Canada a decade ago, she was shocked to find that the start-up scene was overwhelmingly male. The latest of these events was this week's PITCH Conference in Silicon Valley, where nearly 1,000 women gathered for talks by industry giants (Zipcar founder Robin Chase, Flickr co-founder Catarina Fake, and Facebook’s Director of Platform and Mobile Marketing Katie Midic, to name a few), networking events, mentoring lunches, and a pitch competition, where nine women-run start-ups got the chance to pitch their companies to a panel of investors. A cross between Instagram, Yelp, and Twitter, the Tiny Review app lets people review their favorite things - three short lines and one photo at a time.

  • Are You A Procrastinator? How To Stop Now

    Some people may wonder why procrastination advice seems to never work for them and if there is a deeper issue at hand. Well, for 20 percent of the population who are chronic procrastinators, it is a serious problem that needs to be addressed, according to Joseph Ferrari, a psychology professor at DePaul University and a leading expert in the study of procrastination. For those 20 percent, telling them to just "do it" is like "telling a clinically depressed person to cheer up," says Ferrari, author of the book Still Procrastinating?

  • Is Online Dating Destroying Love?

    "I'm telling you, this is Love Year Zero, the Year of True Love, the Real Thing." So writes cinderella69 (AKA Jennifer â�� she was born in 1969) in her blog about her online dating experiences. "You couldn't do this until now.

  • Ovulation Affects Your Walk?

    A study published in the Elsevier Science Journal reveals that women have a sexier, slower gait when they're ovulating. "Near ovulation, it was found that women walked slower and their gait was subjectively rated as sexier.

  • Is Liz Lemon The Everywoman She Use To Be?

    The very first time we ever saw 30 Rock's Liz Lemon, she was standing in line at a hot dog cart when a man walked up, cut in line, and created chaos. It was a ridiculous thing to do, but it was an example of her extreme efforts to create order from disorder. In early days, that's what Liz was all about.

  • How I Live With An STD

    From the time I received the first call notifying me of my abnormal Pap smear results until the day the doctor confirmed I was free of all cancerous cells, I was a complete mess. In the span of three months, I found out I had an incurable STD, learned that it had led to cervical cancer, went to the gynecologist more times than I can count (including lots of poking and prodding - joy!), and had a chunk of my cervix lasered off. Honestly, the very first thought that ran through my mind when my doctor told me I had HPV (human papillomavirus) was, “Oh my God, he cheated on me.” After all, I was married, had been in a monogamous relationship with my now-husband for some time, and was clear of HPV before we met.

  • Facebook's Board: Why Not Use Facebook To Change It?

    Scheduled to go public in May, Facebook was founded on innovation and disruptive thinking - but the company has yet to appoint one woman to its seven-person board of directors. This glaring blemish on Silicon Valley's social media giant prompted the likes of Malli Gero, the Executive Director of 2020 Women on Boards-a national campaign to increase the percentage of women on public boards - to issue a press release entitled "Facebook IPO is No Friend to Women." "Does Mr. Zuckerman think that women are too busy socializing on line to sit on his board?," Gero queries.

  • 11 Things You Need To Throw Away

    The first step to taking care of yourself and de-stressing is to make sure that your environment is in order. Seeing your house full of clutter can affect your mood negatively and make your personal space seem like a place you want to escape from, rather than something to look forward to coming home to.

  • Love, Sex and Marriage In The Days Of Downton Abbey

    The entire plot of the first season of PBS's standout show Downton Abbey revolves around the cultural customs and laws of heirs, women's rights, and marriage during the last hoorah of Britain's Edwardian era at the cusp of World War I. Then the current season covers WWI and beyond, from 1916 to 1920. This transition was a time of social and political turmoil, and it marked a pivotal change for women's rights in Britain. To better understand where women stood and how far we've come, let's look at the rules of love, sex, and marriage in Britain's Edwardian era, and how things changed after World War I.

  • He Says, She Says: The Valentine's Day I Remember Most Is...

    From over-the-top sweetness to botched plans, these guys and girls tell us what made their favorite Valentine's Day so special. "One year, I had told the person I was seeing numerous times about how excited I was about Valentine's Day, but when the day came, he did nothing. It went from being my worst Valentine's Day to my best." - Kyley, 27, Washington, D.C.

  • 4 Ways Pinterest Can Be Useful At Work

    Over the past few months, Pinterest has become the go-to guilty pleasure for many of us. If you're not yet familiar, Pinterest is the recently launched online version of a bulletin board - a place where you can save all your favorite images from across the web and organize them by boards. My desktop is eternally grateful to Pinterest.

  • Why Octavia Spencer’s Facebook Response To Weight Detractors Should Be Posted On Your Wall (Virtual and Otherwise)

    Actress Octavia Spencer has been the toast of the town since getting a heap of award nominations for her role in The Help, but, much to her dismay, a lot of the conversation in the press about her has involved her weight. "After being honored by my Guild on Sunday, I was whisked to the Press Room where one of the first questions I was asked (by Ted Casablanca) was 'what I felt about underweight women'.

  • Are Women Better At Living Alone?

    Earlier this year, divorcee Dominique Browning published an essay in the New York Times positing a gender gap in the talent for living alone. On the whole, women are better at nurturing friendships, as well as relationships with their kids and other family members.

  • 6 Ways To Get More Out Of Twitter

    Congrats: you graduated Twitter 101 cum laude. Whether you're using the popular micro-blogging site to promote your business, or you're simply seeking to take your wisdom to the next level, the Twitterverse is full of tools and tricks to boost your efficiency and get you tweeting like a pro.

  • Is Hysteria Really Back?

    Last August, 16-year-old Lori Brownell passed out while head-banging at a concert. A month later, she lost consciousness again at her school's homecoming dance in upstate Corinth, N.Y. Brownell says her doctors put her on Celexa, but she only developed more symptoms, including involuntary twitching and clapping. In videos she posted to YouTube, Brownell flutters her fingers, touches her hair, snorts through her nose and throat, and shouts "Hey, hey, hey," seemingly without control.

  • Why You Rarely Hear A Woman's Voice In Movie Trailers

    Consider the trailer and the omniscient, disembodied voice that introduces moviegoers to a fictional world. Possessor of a resonant baritone that could cut through tight sequences of music and sound bites - and the coiner of familiar (and parodied) phrases like "In a world..." and "One man, one destiny" - LaFontaine, who died in 2008, voiced more than 5,000 trailers, 350,000 commercials and thousands of television promos.