Informed Women Month on April, 2024: Should Pregnant women be in bars?

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Should Pregnant women be in bars?

Many of us automatically think that all women have been informed about the risk of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, but the truth is that many haven't been. If a bar knowingly serves a pregnant woman alcohol without informing her that alcohol may have a devastating affect on her unborn baby, a pregnant woman very well may have a good lawsuit on her hands.

However, the likelihood of this actually happening is slim. Most bars and restaurants that serve alcohol have signs posted which advise women that they should avoid drinking due to risk of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

If a pregnant woman should order a drink, it is likely that the bartender will inform her of the risk and, at some bars or restaurants, a pregnant woman may be required to sign a waiver before being served alcohol. All of these preventative steps are taken to provide bars or restaurants with legal protection in this type of situation.

What if a Bartender Doesn't Know a Woman is Pregnant?

Although even one glass of wine during the entire course of a pregnancy can be harmful, the risk of a baby being affected with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is the highest during the woman's first trimester of pregnancy.

However, this is the time in which a bartender is unable to see any signs of pregnancy, if the woman even knows that she is pregnant herself. If a bartender doesn't even know that a woman is pregnant, then he or she is really not doing anything wrong by serving alcohol to that woman.

If a woman should try to bring this to court, it would be very hard for her to have a solid case, as the bartender didn't knowingly or willingly serve alcohol to someone who is pregnant. Of course, any form of legal protection that the bar may have, such as signs, would probably prevent the woman from being able to win a lawsuit.

TTC. I Need Some Very Informed Women. Please and Thank You.?

TTC. I Need Some Very Informed Women. Please and Thank You.?

I'm navyguy's wife - just so you don't think a dude is trying to say he knows about the female cycle! A normal cycle consists of two parts each being 14 days long. The second part of the cycle is always 14 days ( for majority of women) and the first part of the cycle length is what varies. If your cycle is 30 - 32 days long - your ovulation should be between days 16-18 of your cycle, you start counting from the first day of your last period as day one. An egg is only viable for 24 hours after ovulation takes place. If you want to get pregnant have sex each day starting on the 15th day of your cycle until the 19th day of your cycle and you will be very likely to get pregnant. This is based on my having a lot of health care experience, 2 college a&p classes, books I've read...and personal experience. My hubbie and I just tried to "wing it", but after a couple of months I got curious and did more reading - we tried what I explained to you above and we got pregnant - and are now 5 weeks along!!! If per chance you don't want to get prego - then avoid the days I told you about :) Good luck - hope this helped.

Why are women encouraged to shave their body hair?

Why are women encouraged to shave their body hair?

There's a 1982 article from the Journal of American Culture by Christine Hope bearing the grand title "Caucasian Female Body Hair and American Culture."

"The gist of the article is that U.S. women were browbeaten into shaving underarm hair by a sustained marketing assault that began in 1915. (Leg hair came later.) The aim of what Hope calls the Great Underarm Campaign was to inform American womanhood of a problem that till then it didn't know it had, namely unsightly underarm hair.

To be sure, women had been concerned about the appearance of their hair since time immemorial, but (sensibly) only the stuff you could see. Prior to World War I this meant scalp and, for an unlucky few, facial hair. Around 1915, however, sleeveless dresses became popular, opening up a whole new field of female vulnerability for marketers to exploit.

According to Hope, the underarm campaign began in May, 1915, in Harper's Bazaar, a magazine aimed at the upper crust. The first ad "featured a waist-up photograph of a young woman who appears to be dressed in a slip with a toga-like outfit covering one shoulder. Her arms are arched over her head revealing perfectly clear armpits. The first part of the ad read 'Summer Dress and Modern Dancing combine to make necessary the removal of objectionable hair.'"

Within three months, Cook tells us, the once-shocking term "underarm" was being used. A few ads mentioned hygiene as a motive for getting rid of hair, but most appealed strictly to the ancient yearning to be hip. "The Woman of Fashion says the underarm must be as smooth as the face," read a typical pitch.

The budding obsession with underarm hair drifted down to the proles fairly slowly, roughly matching the widening popularity of sheer and sleeveless dresses. Antiarm hair ads began appearing in middlebrow McCall's in 1917. Women's razors and depilatories didn't show up in the Sears Roebuck catalog until 1922, the same year the company began offering dresses with sheer sleeves. By then the underarm battle was largely won. Advertisers no longer felt compelled to explain the need for their products but could concentrate simply on distinguishing themselves from their competitors.

The anti-leg hair campaign was more fitful. The volume of leg ads never reached the proportions of the underarm campaign. Women were apparently more ambivalent about calling attention to the lower half of their anatomy, perhaps out of fear that doing so would give the male of the species ideas in a way that naked underarms didn't.

Besides, there wasn't much practical need for shaved legs. After rising in the 1920s, hemlines dropped in the 30s and many women were content to leave their leg hair alone. Still, some advertisers as well as an increasing number of fashion and beauty writers harped on the idea that female leg hair was a curse.

Though Hope doesn't say so, what may have put the issue over the top was the famous WWII pinup of Betty Grable displaying her awesome gams. Showing off one's legs became a patriotic act. That plus shorter skirts and sheer stockings, which looked dorky with leg hair beneath, made the anti-hair pitch an easy sell.

Some argue that there's more to this than short skirts and sleeveless dresses. Cecil's colleague Marg Meikle (Dear Answer Lady, 1992) notes that Greek statues of women in antiquity had no pubic hair, suggesting that hairlessness was some sort of ideal of feminine beauty embedded in Western culture. If so, a lot of Western culture never got the message. Greek women today (and Mediterranean women generally) don't shave their hair. The practice has been confined largely to English-speaking women of North America and Great Britain, although one hears it's slowly spreading elsewhere.

So what's the deal with Anglo-Saxons? Some lingering vestige of Victorian prudery? Good question, but what with world unrest, the economic crisis, and the little researchers having missed their naps, not high on Cecil's priority list. Here's hoping some all-but-thesis Ph.D. candidate will pick up the trail."

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