Weekly News Update
- Allure talked to experts about how to properly use retinoids.
- Refinery29 looked at the difference between “plus size” and “size inclusive” clothing lines.
- Fashionista explored people's choices for their “post-pandemic uniform.” Key quote: “People are reevaluating what they want to wear, maybe for the first time ever since they were kids.”
- Above the Law pondered the value of taking a gap year(s) instead of going straight to law school.
- NPR reported on a new WHO study that found that “People working 55 or more hours each week face an estimated 35% higher risk of a stroke and a 17% higher risk of dying from heart disease, compared to people … working 35 to 40 hours.”
- NiemanLab explained, “Working remotely for the last year has revealed just how much of office culture is accidental, arbitrary, and sexist.”
- OneZero offered some tools for cutting down the number of browser tabs you have open, such as OneTab and Pocket.
- Vox's The Goods talked to journalist and author journalist Nancy Jo Sales about why dating apps make us feel terrible.
- Scary Mommy shared a piece by a 43-year-old woman going through perimenopause who noted the lack of awareness of this stage.
- BuzzFeed News detailed how TikTok is changing Starbucks, one extremely detailed drink at a time.
- Your Laugh of the Week comes from Weekly Humorist, with “Your Brooklyn Dream Home, Now for Just 100k!”
On CorporetteMoms Recently…
- We featured the best sippy cups and toddler feeding items.
- We looked back at past CorporetteMoms posts, including 10 ideas for virtual travel for kids, and how your partner supports your career (and vice versa).
- We offered some clothes for working moms, including some maternity basics and washable workwear.
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Latest creep-of-the-week/why are men such a-holes story. I posted a curb alert for a piece of furniture on our local FB freebies page. Some guy messages me and asks if it’s still available, I say I’m not there at the moment but it was the last I knew. Then I get this:
“Can I text you sweetie?”
I immediately blocked him, but when I went to take the down the post I could see what followed:
“Jules”
“R u mad”
Then the last one, at 1:30 in the moring?
“Hey”
Why do we have to put up with this crap?
Ugh, that’s awful, I’m sorry!
So there is of course a safety issue, but I have stopped being even remotely nice about this stuff when I can safely do so. Now, we should not have to be exposed to it period, not even put up with it.
In theory, shopping size inclusive brands as a plus size woman should be great because you should be able to get everything that your smaller sized friends can. In reality, many of the size inclusive brands only carry a small amount of items in the larger sizes, and they’re often sold out. I’d love to shop size inclusive brands, but for this reason, I almost prefer the brands that still cater to the traditionally plus sized. I can get most things the brand offers in my size. Universal Standard being the exception to the typical size inclusive brand.