Category Archives: Social Commentary

Uncomfortable Conversations over the Holidays

Social Commentary
CJ Grace on Uncomfortable Conversations with her co-hosts, Brian Wardale and Josette Diaz
CJ Grace with Uncomfortable Conversations co-hosts, Brian Wardale & Josette Diaz

I’ve been a host on the Thriving Women Network live TV show, Uncomfortable Conversations since 2022. It’s taught me the importance of good listening skills to be able to engage in productive conversation with people who may not share the same perspectives.  We have covered all kinds of social issues on the show and a variety of views about them.

Uncomfortable Conversations presents this challenge: Instead of listening to agree, why not listen to build a stronger relationship with the person you’re talking to? Continue reading Uncomfortable Conversations over the Holidays →

Not the BBC I Used to Work for

Social Commentary

The BBC created the Trusted News Initiative, but can you trust the BBC? A leaked internal memo published in The Telegraph on November 6, 2025, details serious breaches of impartiality in the BBC coverage of current affairs. Sadly, it wasn’t news to me. As an old-school journalist employed by the BBC four decades ago, the drop in editorial standards from that time to the present was glaringly obvious. Continue reading Not the BBC I Used to Work for →

Am I Redundant? Old-School Journalist Looks at AI

Social Commentary

Robot types at computer with books falling down a red funnel to create a stream of digital content going into the robot's hand. The background shows strings of binary code. Read on to find out how artificial intelligence can mimic Shakespeare and Monty Python to justify its existence. AI can certainly save copywriters enormous amounts of time. However, will it lead to copyright law becoming obsolete and human wordsmiths like me being consigned to the scrap heap? Continue reading Am I Redundant? Old-School Journalist Looks at AI →

Saggy Boobs Story: Do Bras Make Breasts More or Less Droopy?

Breast Cancer, Comedy, Social Commentary

French brassiere advertisement from 1906

There are shaggy dog stories, but what follows is a saggy boob story…

The French pride themselves on their admiration of the female form and their love of perky breasts. Thus, it is no surprise that the first ever study on whether bras helped or hindered a woman’s muscle tone and posture was carried out in France. Continue reading Saggy Boobs Story: Do Bras Make Breasts More or Less Droopy? →

What Is the Perfect Man?

Comedy, Dating, Sex, Social Commentary

Perfect man made out of milk chocolate with a muscular body and wearing white boxers decorated with red heartsInspired by this Valentine’s Day Perfect Man immortalized in premium milk chocolate, I decided to search for an answer to the complex question that it brought to mind. Is the ideal man sweet and decadently rich with a muscular chest and big biceps?

Yes and no, according to the results of the 2019 Ideal Partner Global Survey, Continue reading What Is the Perfect Man? →

Are Gender Affirming Practices Carcinogenic?

Breast Cancer, Social Commentary


As a two-time breast cancer survivor and BBC-trained journalist, I have done a significant amount of research into the causes of cancer. My self-help memoir, My Wild Ride: How to Thrive After Breast Cancer and Infidelity, not only includes cartoons and humor, but also a bibliography referencing nearly 70 books and more than 100 articles and studies. Continue reading Are Gender Affirming Practices Carcinogenic? →

Farting During Sex: An International Study

Breast Cancer, Sex, Social Commentary

A male farting sheep looking sheepish with a female sheep in a meadow.An unusual study has recently been published by a prestigious Japanese institution that provides a league table of countries whose inhabitants break wind the most during sexual activity. Continue reading Farting During Sex: An International Study →

Is God Racist and Anti-Semitic? If So, Can We Fight Back by Ditching Our Bras?

Breast Cancer, Social Commentary, Women's Rights

Bra-less Jewish woman in a black dress with star of David medallion.I consider myself quite a spiritual person, so why am I saying something that folks might find spiritually outrageous? Most of us are aware of the history of black slavery in America and the Holocaust in Europe but something else is happening right now. Did you know that young black women have about double the death rate from breast cancer as white women? Continue reading Is God Racist and Anti-Semitic? If So, Can We Fight Back by Ditching Our Bras? →

October 13 is No Bra Day

Breast Cancer, Social Commentary
Woman in pink bra uses scissors to cut it off her body.
Photo © 2023 by CJ Grace

Did you know that on October 13 every year women worldwide are encouraged to go braless to promote breast cancer awareness? Continue reading October 13 is No Bra Day →

Sparring with ChatGPT on Bras and Cancer

Breast Cancer, Social Commentary

Female robot with blue eyes and a pink bra by angel8888 from DepositPhotos modified with bra by CJ grace

Bare Facts or a Bare-Faced Lie?

Numerous studies support a strong link between bras and breast cancer. Yet mainstream search engines focus on a flawed 2014 study that did not show a connection and insist that no credible evidence exists showing otherwise. What about the much-vaunted new AI tool, available in free and paid versions, ChatGPT, that everyone is raving about to solve their research and copy writing needs? Continue reading Sparring with ChatGPT on Bras and Cancer →

If Breaking Up with Your Bra Is Hard to Do…

Breast Cancer, Social Commentary

In many indigenous cultures in Africa and South America, it is generally acceptable for both men and women to go without clothing that covers the torso. Yet in the West, women going topless in public might face prosecution for indecent exposure. William J. Mayo MD, one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic, wrote in the article “Susceptibility to Cancer,” published in the 1931 Annals of Surgery, that “Cancer of the breast occurs largely among civilized women. In those countries where breasts are allowed to be exposed, that is, are not compressed or irritated by clothing, it is rare.” Continue reading If Breaking Up with Your Bra Is Hard to Do… →

Chocolate Cures Everything?

Breast Cancer, Social Commentary

As a lifelong chocoholic, I’m always heartened by tales of the healing power of chocolate. Continue reading Chocolate Cures Everything? →

Are Infidelity Surveys Worthless?

Adultery, Infidelity, Social Commentary

So say you’re having a secret affair, squeezed into your busy schedule as you juggle your family life with illicit interludes. What would you rather be doing—having torrid sex with your lover or filling out a survey about it? You could always do the survey during family time—just make sure that your spouse isn’t looking over your shoulder. Continue reading Are Infidelity Surveys Worthless? →

Glenda Green Didn’t Want to Read My Book yet Liked It!

Breast Cancer, Infidelity, Social Commentary
Glenda Green poses next to her painting, First Light, which graces the cover of her bestselling book, "Love without End."
Glenda Green with her painting, First Light, which graces the cover of her bestselling book, “Love Without End.” Photo by CJ Grace.

The comedy self-help memoir I’ve just had published, “My Wild Ride: How to Thrive After Breast Cancer and Infidelity,” references almost 70 books, including one of the most quoted books in modern spiritual literature, the bestseller “Love without End” by Glenda Green. Continue reading Glenda Green Didn’t Want to Read My Book yet Liked It! →

How a Farting Goat Got Me on Live TV

Comedy, Social Commentary

Gomer the Gassy Goat: A Fart-Filled Tale children's bookGomer the Gassy Goat got me an invite to be a host on a live TV network. How did that happen? Well, it’s a bit of a shaggy dog, or maybe I should say shaggy goat, story. Continue reading How a Farting Goat Got Me on Live TV →

Success versus Purpose

Breast Cancer, Infidelity, Social Commentary

gold, silver and bronze medals from the 2012 Olympics in London, UKA recent LinkedIn post by Dr. Manoj Krishna, founder of the Human Wisdom Project, asking the question, “What does success mean to you—is it wealth, fame or something else?” got me thinking. Continue reading Success versus Purpose →

Breast Cancer: Humor as Healing

Breast Cancer, Social Commentary

CJ Grace speaking at the Global Breast Cancer Conference on October 5, 2022, holds up a Monty Python Spamalot badge reading, "I'm not dead yet!"

I had a motto while dealing with both breast cancer and an unfaithful husband: “If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.” I tried to find absurd humor in every situation I was faced with and wanted to avoid the cancer victim mentality. I’m a two-time breast cancer survivor with a mutated BRCA gene that makes me more susceptible to cancer. Continue reading Breast Cancer: Humor as Healing →

Breast Implant Illness? It’s All in Your Head, You Neurotic Woman!

Breast Cancer, Social Commentary

Sometimes industry-funded medical studies are so biased and their outrageous conclusions are so bad that they’re good, at least in a Monty Python kind of way. Continue reading Breast Implant Illness? It’s All in Your Head, You Neurotic Woman! →

If You Don’t Laugh, You’re Gonna Cry

Breast Cancer, Infidelity, Social Commentary

cartoon of CJ Grace Chemo BaldHere I am chemo-bald. I cannot compete with that famous photograph of Joan Lunden battling breast cancer on the cover of the October 2014 edition People magazine. The TV host looks stunning with or without hair. I do not, so this hairless cartoon of me will have to suffice. Continue reading If You Don’t Laugh, You’re Gonna Cry →

Boomer Chick’s Guide to Online Dating: Guest Blog

Dating, Social Commentary

CJ: I have recently become friends with a wonderful multi-talented lady: Angela Schutz, author, life coach, career counselor and a youthful septuagenarian with a great sense of humor. She has written a online dating book that might save you heartache and make you laugh. I asked her to write a blog about it for my website and she graciously agreed to do one. Continue reading Boomer Chick’s Guide to Online Dating: Guest Blog →