Revellations Blog
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What’s More Biased: The Media or Your Algorithm?
Can you believe it’s been nearly a decade since the term “fake news” took the world by storm? It might have been the presidential election that really enabled it to take hold back in 2016, but these days the term is so ubiquitous it’s almost become tired. The term might be getting stale, but the…
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Did Feminism Fail Us?
After this most recent election, in the midst of the horrifying posts from victorious men shouting “your body, my choice” came another voice — that of our fellow women, claiming that Donald Trump’s victory was a signal to the world that modern feminism had failed. You’ve probably seen the growing crop of trad-wife influencers promoting…
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What Are The Rules for Dating in 2025?
As a single girlie, my social media feeds are inundated with influencers trying to tell me how to date. A lot of them are trying to sell me some sort of “better” dating app or consulting service to perfect my profile. But then there’s a cohort that are discussing — in good faith — how…
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Are They Happy Now?
I promised you all a list of action steps that I’ll be taking in an effort to step into the next four years with purpose and hope. But before we go there, I wanted to take some time to acknowledge a harsh truth that I think a lot of us are trying to ignore: many…
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The Never Ending Weight Loss Debate
If you’ve been with me since I was at the helm of Revelle, then you know I have strong feelings about society’s obsession with women’s bodies. And the recent explosion of weight-loss medication has been a phenomenon that I’ve been following closely for years. Feel free to peruse some of our old articles — like…
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Times Are Changing…And So Are We
The world is changing…and so is Revellations. If you subscribe to our newsletter you might notice that we have a new look. Nothing else is changing her on the site (for now), but we’re happy to have some positive updates to report on in 2025. Because for the majority of this community I have a…
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The Waiting Game
Looking for a new job? Searching for your forever partner? Trying to publish your manuscript…? I’ll bet you’re miserable. Why is it that we as humans just genuinely suck so much at waiting? I talked in my last article about how many people in my life are currently looking for something new in their lives.…
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Why New Year’s Resolutions Suck…But I’m Still Doing Them
New Year, New You…ugh, amirite? It’s almost like hating new year’s resolutions has gotten as tired as the resolutions themselves at this point. I’m not quite ready to circle back around to loving the concept yet, but this year I’ll admit I found myself craving some sort of feeling of change. And if my personal…
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The Meet Cute is NOT Dead
Everyone I talk to is sick of dating apps. They’re oversaturated. They give the illusion of infinite options. They make people lazy. But what’s the alternative? According to my very reliable sample set of single friends, there is no alternative. Dating apps are the only way people meet potential partners these days. The pandemic made…
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What Do We Do Now? Women in Post-Election America
As a community that’s based entirely on the ethos that women should feel at home in their bodies, comfortable in their identities, and safe out in the world, I wonder if any of you have been curious where I’ve been the past few weeks. Or perhaps not…maybe none of you are reading my silly little…
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What Men Could (*should*) Learn From Reading Romance Novels
My bookshelves at home are boobytrapped. Not in the sense that you’ll meet physical harm if you misstep — beyond actually pulling the entire structure off the wall on top of you — or that there is a secret door hidden somewhere (ugh, I wish #goals). But rather the shelves themselves are rigged as a…
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AI Has Entered the (Dating) Chat
The other day I went on the most disappointing date I’ve been on since I (re)started my single girl journey post-breakup. Following the extremely firm directive of my friends, I downloaded a dating app to get myself back into the game (just ONE! It’s so overwhelming I can’t imagine juggling them all at once). I’ve…
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Wearing Red To A Wedding Means What Now?
Wedding season is in full swing, so naturally TikTok is all over it. But between some adorable vow-writing videos, the trend of slipping the groom *spicy* pics of the bride, and a slew of fantastic Taylor Swift inspired transitions, I saw a new conversation emerge…apparently — at least according to not-at-all-reputable authorities on TikTok —…
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Birthdays & The Single Lady Milestones
My birthday is coming up this week. And let me tell you I am a birthday girl. Summer birthdays weren’t always the best growing up — kids are often away at camp when you want to celebrate, and we moved around a lot so I was often somewhere new when my birthday rolled around (the…
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Am I Allowed To Want to Lose Weight?
At Revellations, we want each and every one of you to feel confident, sexy, and comfortable in your own bodies. Whether it be when we go shopping (and nothing fits properly 🙄), on social media (with influencers selling us the latest “wellness” hacks), or in the supposed cesspool of modern dating (this writer wishes she…
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Fun Wedding Fling…Or Something More?
Look. Weddings are like adult summer camp — a few days away from real life, a bunch of semi-connected people in the same room. And now that we’re adults, we get to add alcohol. Of course things are going to get a little spicy. If you’ve indulged yourself in a wedding hookup, congrats. What a…
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The Diet Culture Reckoning…How Far We’ve (failed to) Come
I recently wrote an article about Ozempic, a word that just a year ago many of us had never heard before. And now it’s a tried and true part of our vernacular. The supposed “miracle drug” had been around for years (since 2017, to be precise), but last summer it seemed that everyone finally cottoned…
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Can We Be Happy Alone…Or Are We Lying To Ourselves?
The internet is rife with articles detailing how women are eschewing modern dating and relationships and opting to simply be alone. Is this for real? Are women (and/or men) simply over partnerships? Is this the future, or our ultimate demise? As a recently single woman, I’ll admit I’ve been equal parts intrigued and terrified to…
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Ozempic — Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
Tis the season… The season for inane marketing campaigns telling you to lose weight in time for bikini season cleverly disguised as “hot girl summer inspo”. But this year, it feels a bit different. Why, you ask? The answer, of course, is Ozempic. This may not be the first summer that Ozempic is on the…
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Destination Bachelorette — Yay or Nay?
As I mentioned in my first post about modern weddings, a lot has changed in the last decade in how we celebrate a couple’s impending nuptials. There are wedding hashtags (trying to explain that one to my mom was a kick), self-written vows, and more friends officiating than religious leaders nowadays. But in my opinion,…
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Should You Party With Direct Reports?
The other day I was chatting with a friend who recently took a new job. It’s a super exciting move for her, one that will have her managing a big team at a new company after having worked at her previous one for nearly a decade. The first week of her new job ended up…
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Modern Wedding Etiquette — How Did We Get Here?
My best friend just got engaged. And holy sh*t am I excited. Even more excited than I was when my friend made me a cake entirely out of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for my birthday… Why am I so excited? It’s not even my wedding, but if there’s anyone in the world who deserves the…
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Bumble’s Fumble
By now we’ve all seen the Bumble anti-celibacy ads right…? RIGHT? In a year that’s already seen a new CEO and an abandonment of Bumble’s cardinal rule of having women make the first move, I thought we were done with Bumble-related controversies for a while. But alas… ICYMI, Bumble’s clearly seen the new trends taking…
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The Generational Divide: Millennials vs Gen Z in the Workplace
Look, navigating the ins and outs of the workplace is challenging. We all want to succeed, but we’re not even sure what success means half the time — is it that next promotion, a salary bump, being your own boss, finding your passion? We’ve all been fed some version of each of these tropes over…
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Fake It Til You Make It?
Probably not the wisest move here… Did you hear the one about the conference with fake female speakers? Not a knock knock joke, this is something that actually happened in 2023. DevTernity, an online conference for developers, was canceled last week after being called out for including fake female speakers in its lineup. Conference organizers claim…
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OpenAI’s Board Drama
Why do we care? Did you ever read articles about famous actors who married non-actors and think to yourself wow, that could be me? Yeah, me neither… I remember talking about it with my mom, marveling at how certain actors who married “normies” (as I learned we call them via DeuxMoi) managed to keep their…
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Why Are We Here?
Welcome to Revellations When I was a teenager, I would staunchly declare that I was NOT a feminist. I’d been fed media throughout my childhood that painted a picture of women claiming the title as angry man haters, and I wanted no part of it. As the younger sister to two caring older brothers and…