Welcome to Our Newest Bloggers
By KeMari | September 26, 2007
Phattitudes would like to introduce and welcome three of our new contributing bloggers. These three women are unique, quirky and will be offering up their own fresh views on life, love, sex, and all the other things that plague us human beings. So please, take a moment to go visit their Phat blogs!
Tori’s blog, ManEater, offers up ‘1 girl’s thoughts on sex, body image, sex, self-esteem, and sex‘
2Mara’s blog, 6 Degrees of wEiRd, is slightly off the charts with her crazy, kooky notions and inner curiosities.
and lastly, but certainly not least:
Katie, whose blog, Butterfly in the Wind, is a fluttering mix of everything, from Katie’s own personal experiences and passions to current issues to all the fluffy things in life.
Take some time to go visit these blogs and see what these lovely women have to say.
Happy Wednesday to our Phat readers!
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Blog of the Day Award
By KeMari | September 25, 2007
This past Sunday, Phattitudes.com won another award, based on our Friday Rant: Women on Women.
We were nominated by World Famous Recipes and awarded by Blog of the Day Awards.
Again, we are humbled and honored that others find our site worthy of an award.
So we send a special thank you out to Blog of the Day Awards and to World Famous Recipes for nominating us.
Congratulations to us, and thank you to all our Phat readers!
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Friday Rant: Women for Women
By KeMari | September 21, 2007
No, this is not a craigslist.org ad.
This is a rant about women.
But KeMari, you may ask, why would you rant about your own kind? Are you not a woman too?
Yes, I am. And I am big proponent of empowered women. What I am not a fan of is women against other women. We are all alike, even in our differences. Whether we seek to be a CEO of our own company or truly enjoy being a housewife, we are all in this together.
I, for one, am damn sick of seeing and hearing other women pit themselves against each other. Shouldn’t we be encouraging our sisters, instead of coveting their husbands or boyfriends? Shouldn’t we embrace our sisters instead of talking trash behind their backs? Shouldn’t we praise our sisters instead of despising their triumphs?
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Wednesday Rant: “Don’t Do Me Any Favors”
By Courtni K. George | September 12, 2007
{The following is a special rant from Phattitudes’ Courtni K. George. Her opinions and views may or may not reflect the other bloggers and contributing authors associated with Phattitudes.com. Please keep this in mind when you are reading as it is a controversial post. Thank you, KeMari}
I was not gonna post anything more about 9-11. Period.
I said my peace, and I mourned and paid tribute personally.
But as I was walking out the door to work yesterday, I caught the news broadcast of the family members, friends and important people who want to look as if they give a shit about things other than themselves live at Ground Zero droning on and on as they read the names of those who were victimized 6 years ago.
They sounded as if someone were standing behind them with a 9mm stuck in their backs. So I stopped, stared, and was sucked into the force-fed memorial that was displayed before me.
Afterwards, as I was driving, I thought about how each year has become more and more forced. I found myself wondering if it was because we as a society have silently decided to numb ourselves from the pain of it all. I wondered why Mr. Politician was even reading off the name of some father/son/brother/friend that he didn’t even know. Would this man want some strange snaky senator calling out his name? I know I wouldn’t. I would rather my name not be called at all, than by some slick-back governor who is looking for ratings.
Maybe it is just me.
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09-11-01: 2,996
By KeMari | September 11, 2007
09-11-01: They aren’t lottery numbers; it’s the date of America’s worst and most memorable loss of lives to happen on American soil at the hands of terrorists.
2996: That’s not a year; it’s the number of lives lost because of the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, PA.
10048: The phantom zip code of the World Trade Center.
3774: The number of troop casualties of the Iraq War on Terror; nearly 800 more than those lost on 9/11/01.
78,000: An estimate of the Iraqi civilian deaths from violence related to the Iraq War on Terror.
6: Number of years it has been since the terror attacks.
You can do the math, but those are just numbers; hollow digits that represent lives. They aren’t memories; they aren’t fatherless children; husbandless wives; daughterless fathers.
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I Love Your Blog!!
By KeMari | September 10, 2007
It’s a little bit late coming, but we’re busy revamping the site and working on lots of goodies and pheatures to have for our readers and potentials.
But here it is, as promised, the top 10 blogs we love and just can’t live without, in no particular order:
Heather of The Wishful Writer
Jim and Emma of GO! Smell the Flowers
Jayne of Blogging For Bitter Women
Morgan of The Miracle Process
Eric of Eric Marier’s Personal Diary
Janet of Janet Is Hungry
Lisa of OMYWORD! Did I Say That?
Wonder Woman of Disjointed Intelligence
Vienne of Eavesdrop Writer
Deb of Deb Goes On…
Tomara of 2Mara.com
These 10 blogs and bloggers deserve this “I love your blog” award. They write compelling, endearing and funny, if not addicting blogs, that we just can’t live without.
So to those 10, we award you this blog medal of honor:
You can follow our lead and pass it on to 10 of your choice, or choose your own number. But remember to pass it on and show appreciation.
Congratulations to those who have held our attention enough to be awarded this. And a special thanks to WalksFarWoman for awarding Phattitudes.
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We Love Your Blog
By KeMari | September 5, 2007
Weblogs, or blogs, as they are generally referred to, are all the rage nowadays.
Nary a person who doesn’t know what a blog is.
Blogs are written by people. That’s stating the obvious of course. However, there are so many variations of blogs, from business blogs to humor blogs, family blogs to photo blogs, positive blogs to negative blogs, political blogs to religious: the vast array of blog types is so wide that there is a blog out there to appeal to everyone’s taste.
It’s customary, that when you like someone’s blog, you show them appreciation in some way: you subscribe, you comment, you contact the writer, or blogger [if they aren’t a friend or family member already] and tell them how much you like their blog, etc.
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