By Sarah Seltzer
Disney has come
under fire for “feminizing” and “sexing up” Merida, the spunky Scottish princess of the Pixar film “Brave,” in order to add her to its much-maligned princess collection.
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By Sarah Seltzer
With the population of retiring baby boomers growing, the Forward got advice from someone in the belly of the beast: a financial manager in Florida.
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By Sarah Seltzer
Sexual assault cases don’t occur in a vacuum, even when they are so egregious that they defy the imagination. For example: the recent Cleveland story involving the long-term imprisonment and rape of three local women by an alleged perpetrator who comes across as a complete sadist. Coverage of this story has been rife with speculation, yet there are few answers available — partly due to the survivors’ understandable desire for privacy.
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By Sarah Seltzer
Memoirist Judy Mandel was conceived after her older sister died in a plane crash. She never escaped from being born in the shadow of tragedy.
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By Sarah Seltzer
This past week, the true extent of the problem of rape and sexual assault in the military came to light, and the numbers were stark and ugly. A new Pentagon report found that nearly 26,000 members of the military were sexually assaulted last year — a 35% increase from 2010. The numbers sent shock waves everywhere, prompting furious editorials from major papers and a particularly angry-sounding President Obama at a press conference saying, “I have zero tolerance for this,” and vowing a top-down culture change.
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