Normally a movie star known the world over as the woman who is “too beautiful” is not all that relatable. But when I came across the story of silent
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What IS a Dame?
Dametown is a place for and about dames. Here, dames are celebrated, appreciated, advocated, venerated, illuminated, cultivated, stimulated, instigated, sometimes exonerated. So, just what is a dame? Since if
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Yeah, I Name My Breasts. What?
When I was 13, my breasts popped up overnight, with the surprising jolt of a jack-in-the-box or dual airbags. They were greeted with a heady mixture of fear,
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Dame On!
So, why a website about dames? What are dames, who are dames, and why should you give a dame? First of all, this is not about dames with a
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Turns Out I’m STILL Not a French Woman!
I’m surprised, and sort of outraged, that I’m still not a French woman. True, I don’t smoke, but I only shave my underarms sporadically so that should even things
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Girl Crush on Girl Reporter (Wish MY Name Were “Torchy Blane”)
The 1940s and Depression-era girl reporter embodies everything I could ever want to be. The very quintessence of dame-ness, she’s smart, savvy, confident, independent, and quick with the comeback.
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If I Had a Ribbon Bow (aka Why I Need a 37th Little Black Dress)
Lately I’ve been having all kinds of epiphanies up in here. Not “meaning of life” stuff, but staggeringly obvious insights that mostly annoy me with their tardy blatant-ness. Some
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I’ve Got a Cherry on My Back
I have long been powerless against the cherry. Not the kind you eat, the kind you wear. For reasons not entirely clear to me, from time to time clothing
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Buying and Renovating an Apartment is Not for Pussies Part I
(Update to this post: Here is the finished result; I call our new-ish apartment “Anything Gauche”.) I avoided all sorts of grown-up stickywickets for so long, I guess it
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I’m So Pathetically Not French
When I was a girl I loved to get those little booklets they sold by the cash register at the supermarket. I’d read and re-read all the “1,000 Baby
