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What happens after you've had your super-glittery Sweet Sixteen, souped-up prom and over-the-top (and the budget) wedding? You have an "extreme" high school reunion. Duh.

High school reunions have always been a chance to one-up the competition, but people are starting to go to extremes -- hiring strippers, finding hot model-types to flank their sides and lying about career accomplishments.

I'm the Quarterback, I'm Popular ... Not

No matter what anybody tells you, our high school trauma stays with us. Tune in to a daytime talk shows from time to time, and you'll see victims confronting their childhood bullies or showing off their formerly flabby but now fit bods to the popular girls who once called them "thunder thighs."

If you spent your four years being stuffed into lockers or having maxi pads whipped at your head, a reunion is like a chance to undo it all, or at least show your once-scoffing peers that you've become totally fabulous despite their torture. The problem is, what if you haven't?

We know you've entertained the notion of hanging out in the locker room with hot, sweaty athletes.

For Beth Jarrett, 34, it's an everyday reality -- and her job. She's the sole female head trainer in Triple-A baseball. And while that's still a step below the majors, we think Jarrett majorly rocks for tackling the profession in a male-dominated industry.

Why We Love Her: Just like some of the athletes she treats, Jarrett, who's in her first year with the Syracuse Chiefs, worked her way up through the minor leagues. She was an Indians batgirl at age 15 and interned with the team as an assistant trainer through college at Indiana University, where she earned a degree in kinesiology.

Jarrett, who fell in love with baseball as a young girl, had to rely on herself to pursue her unusual career choice. Still, she doesn't complain -- even when the occasional rookie asks, "What's with the girl trainer?" But they get over it pretty quickly when they see she's as professional and talented as they come.

Quote: "I couldn't ask for much more," Jarrett said. "There will come a time when I want to get married and have a family, but being around something I love so much is a lot of fun."

Soulja Boy calls you his wifey and wants to kiss you through the phone. Jamie Foxx is glad you've "got your own" and Ne-Yo is falling hard for a "kinda woman that can do for herself."

Ladies, have musicians finally outgrown calling us "hos" and "bitches" whose sole purpose is to slide down a stripper pole? Or are we just saving the diamond-studded G-strings for wear in baller's cribs only?

A Long Road to Ho

Don't be fooled, says Thembisa S. Mshaka, a former advertising copywriter who designed campaigns for Sony Music's hip-hop and R&B artists, who now works for BET. She says that whereas the emphasis a decade ago was on "honeys wearing Sassoon," it's now about how it "ain't trickin' if you got it."

"I think the most glaring shift I've seen in hip-hop lyrics over the last five to 10 years would have to be the focus on stripping and lapdance/bar-and-bottle-service expenditure within club culture," said Mshaka, the author of "PUT YOUR DREAMS FIRST: Handle Your Entertainment Business."

And how the women look in music videos is no better, even according to some of the musicians themselves. Click here to keep reading, after the jump.

Thanks to the fadeout of 9-to-5 workdays and technology that keeps us reachable 24/7, more people are able to work hard and play hard ... at the same time.

"Weisure" is the cute buzzword coined to describe the combo of employment and enjoyment. Not only are we Facebooking in the office, but we're also checking our Blackberries on dates and emailing clients while watching "The Office."

NYU sociologist Dalton Conley, who created the word, explains that Americans' increased workloads make it easier to take a quick work phone call after hours than wait till you get to the office in the morning when you have more to do.

And now, our "social" networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are tools we're using at work, too.

We've been waiting for proof that chronic Facebook and Twitter updates need to stop, and now we have it: TMI on Facebook and Twitter is causing crime! The technologies have been implicated in recent mugging, robbery and gang cases. No joke.

Twitter Flash Mobs Turn Ugly
Two weekends ago in Philadelphia, thousands of teens helped rob a convenience store, heckle pedestrians and carjack and beat up a random couple. Police there suspect the thugs arranged the attack through MySpace and Twitter, calling the online conspiring "a new dynamic that's growing, with large groups of juveniles using the social networks to get out the word."

Usually when you think of a flash mob, you think Improv Everywhere or mass huggings, not NBA Championship-style riots. Read more ways Twitter is helping criminals after the jump.

Filmmaker Liz Canner has devoted the last nine years of her life to orgasms -- and her new film "Orgasm, Inc.," explores women's sexual-health problems and how the drug industry may be perpetuating them.

Why We Love Her: Canner was originally hired by the pharmaceutical company Vivus to create a video on Alista, a female stimulant cream.

Though she planned on using what she'd filmed as a documentary on female pleasure, she instead found herself asking questions about the drugs and devices the pharmaceutical companies produce to "cure" sexual problems in women.

Canner was inspired to create "Orgasm" in part by her own female sexual dysfunction, or FSD. The film delves into the diagnosis and treatment process and even shows Canner going for a $1,500 assessment at the Berman Center, a private clinical facility in Chicago founded by sexual-health expert Laura Berman.

The research won't stop with the film, however. Canner and Xenia Markowitto, director of the Center for Women and Gender at Dartmouth University, where the filmmaker was the 2009 Visionary in Residence, are organizing SheBop, a group that will use "Orgasm, Inc." to improve women's sexual health.

Quote: "I think the film is more of an exposé on how the pharmaceutical industry works," Canner said. "It's more how it's become normal for drug companies to be involved with developing diseases. It's legal and we need to look at that and how it's changing people's ideas of health and illness."

Click here to watch a clip from the film.

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus -- even when it comes to how we handle crimes like identity theft.

According to a recent survey, 28 percent of women said they had been victims of identity theft compared with 21 percent for men. Of the women, 80 percent were "most concerned" with identity theft compared to less than 60 percent for men. Well, maybe that's because we're 26 percent more likely to get our ID stolen.

But this brings up the classic chicken-and-egg scenario: Are we really more likely to be targets, or are we targets because we're more paranoid?

Click here to find out, after the jump.

It takes a lot of guts to launch a magazine about global women's issues. But that's exactly what Jensine Larsen accomplished a few years ago at the tender age of 28.

Today, World Pulse, and its accompanying site PulseWire, are tackling everything from philanthropy in America to politics in Afghanistan.

Why We Love Her: Larsen spent years covering issues like ethnic cleansing in South America and Southeast Asia as a freelance journalist, eventually realizing that popular media left much to be desired in the realm of women's perspectives. And the stifling of the female voice was something she had personal experience with, too. She admits to suffering from "paralyzing shyness" as a child.

World Pulse is now more than just a magazine -- it serves as a powerful network for international women's and youth organizations. And when she's not busy helping to change the world, she's doing her best to make those around her feel better, working as a "healing bodyworker" in her native Oregon.

Quote: "I'd like readers to know that the revolution is already well underway," Larsen says. "The revolution for a world where women aren't merely free, but empowered so greatly as to be unstoppable. A world where [a woman] can transform her life, as well as the lives of those around her simply by raising her voice. My life is a commitment to seeing this revolution realized."