Caroline Brand
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Caroline Brand | Real Beauty, real problems
As part of its ongoing Real Beauty campaign, Dove posted a YouTube video last week that has over 19 million views. I find the overwhelmingly positive response to this video troubling — especially the praise from within the Penn community.
Caroline Brand | In praise of Patton
Others have criticized Patton for being anti-feminist, but I find her argument empowering. What’s anti-feminist about telling a woman to find a man “worthy” of her intelligence?
Caroline Brand | I think, therefore you are
Especially at Penn — a world in which six degrees of separation feels more like two — it’s all too easy to “know” someone despite never having met them.
Caroline Brand | From sonnets to sexting
While some mourn the end of the era of boyfriends and girlfriends and dates at Pod, others find the hook-up culture to be less stressful than trying to hold a conversation with someone over the duration of a three-course meal and find it much more conducive to our busy schedules.
Caroline Brand | Let’s get our facts straight
While Penn for Palestine’s proposal may have been well-intentioned, its analysis of the situation was littered with inaccuracies and the biases that perpetuate the exact conflict they denounce.
Caroline Brand | Me, myself and iPhone
We aren’t addicted to our iPhones per se — rather, we literally love them, as we would a spouse or parent.
