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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Uncivil Disobedience – America, I’m Breaking Up With You
“If a woman tells her story and no one in her government hears her – does her government exist at all? No. Women have no government. We are
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#REFUSE: Women, Let’s Fight By Doing NOTHING
Women – it’s time to stop fucking around. Maybe literally. In the ancient play, Lysistrata, the eponymous heroine persuades Grecian women to stop having sex with men until they
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Top 10 Classic Dame Films – Part 3
Here’s the third and last chapter in my hard-wrought Top Ten Dame Movies list. It’s been hard to whittle down the list, and if I thought Part 2 was
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Top 10 Classic Dame Films – Part 2
Here is a continuation of my Top Ten List of Classic Dame-y Movies. This is no easy task because there are so many movies that feature dames being dames.
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Top 10 Classic Dame Movies
The world is chock full of dames, some fully-blossomed, some who remain stunted as seedlings. One of the best ways to coax a nascent dame out of her shell
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#MeToo, Aziz Ansari and the “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” Convo
Most of us our now aware of Aziz Ansari’s cluelessly relentless, relentlessly clueless, powers of seduction. This timely, TMI-y tale says we women put a little more “me” in
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Sorry Not Sorry: The Power of Saying No
Sheryl Sandberg told us to “Lean In”; Shonda Rhimes told us about her “Year of Yes”. I see the wisdom in all that, but me, I’m a big advocate of
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Women (And Those Who Love Them) March It Up in New York City
Look, it’s hard not to be depressed. We have an illiterate, lying, corrupt, likely treasonous, racist, self-confessed p**sy-grabber in the White House, so it’s understandable if it gets a
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How To Not Sexually Harass Women: A Guide For Men
Men: Do you sexually harass women? That’s so 2017. It’s tired, old-fashioned, disgusting, and frankly, pretty pathetic. You’re better than that. But according to many men, ascertaining whether you
