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The Friday Five
By Role/Reboot StaffMay 17, 2013
This week's roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. How Motherhood Is Changing Dramatically—In 11 Graphs by Derek Thompson of The Atlantic says moms are different these days. They’re more likely to have gone to college, more likely to work full-time, less likely to have more than two children, and less likely to be married than...Posted in Culture and Politics, Current Events, Friday Five, nfti-home, Politics, Pop Culture | (0) Comments »
An Open Letter To Angelina Jolie
By Steph HMay 14, 2013
Steph, who had a preventative mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer, welcomes Angelina Jolie to the sisterhood. Dear Ange, First off, can I call you that? Ange? Because we're practically sisters at this point. I'll take that as a yes. Moving on. Until yesterday, Ange, you and I had approximately three things in common: we are both, ostensibly, of the same species; we both married ve...Posted in Current Events, Life, nfti-home, Pop Culture, Womanhood | (0) Comments »
The Friday Five
By Role/Reboot StaffMay 10, 2013
This week's roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Horror In Cleveland: Why The Warning Signs Went Ignored by Katie J.M. Baker of Jezebel says the willful ignorance of police and neighbors is a not-so-hyperbolic metaphor for what millions of domestic abuse survivors experience every day. 2. My Virginity Mistake by Jessica Ciencin Henriqu...Posted in Culture and Politics, Current Events, Friday Five, Gender Roles, Internet and Social Media, nfti-home, Politics, Pop Culture | (0) Comments »
This Mother's Day, I Am No Longer A Mother
By Emily RappMay 08, 2013
On this first Mother's Day after the loss of her son Ronan, Emily Rapp ponders what it truly means to be a mother. “He was the son of his son—he was here, he was left behind.” – Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin In preparation for this upcoming Mother’s Day, I’ve been reading a book about the tightrope walker who, in 1974, illegally, with the help of h...Posted in Current Events, Emily Rapp, Family, Mothers, nfti-home, Womanhood | (0) Comments »
The Friday Five
By Role/Reboot StaffMay 03, 2013
This week's roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Yahoo Blows It Again by Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon.com says a new expanded leave policy doesn’t cover real life—especially for a company that has banned working from home. 2. Why NBA Center Jason Collins Is Coming Out Now by Jason Collins and Franz Lidz of Sports Illust...Posted in Culture and Politics, Current Events, Friday Five, nfti-home, Politics, Pop Culture | (0) Comments »
I Support Jason Collins, But He's Not The First Gay Athlete
By Drew BowlingApril 30, 2013
By deeming Jason Collins the first openly gay athlete in a major American team sport, what is Sports Illustrated really saying? Twitter was an irksome site to visit on Monday. It wasn't for anything that was specific to Twitter's function as a site, but rather something that hung amid the top trending topics that was constantly reminding me of something I have a problem with. It was a phrase, ...Posted in Culture and Politics, Current Events, Internet and Social Media, LGBT, nfti-home, Pop Culture, Race | (0) Comments »
Why Your Daughter Should Be Watching 'American Idol' This Season
By Tina BoyerApril 29, 2013
The talent show is not free of criticism, but this season's all-female group of finalists is sending a strong message, says Tina Boyer. In all its corny, commercial excess, American Idol isn’t exactly the highest form of culture, but there’s something brewing in the current finalist round of the competition that’s challenging the established formulas of reality television. Th...Posted in Current Events, Feminism, Life, nfti-home, Pop Culture, Reality TV, Womanhood | (0) Comments »
The Friday Five
By Role/Reboot StaffApril 26, 2013
This week's roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Why Are Terrorists So Often Men? by Irin Carmon of Salon.com says Tamerlan Tsarnaev was performing a kind of masculinity through public destruction. 2. No One, Male Or Female, Should Be Ashamed Of Leaving The Workforce by Noah Berlatsky of The Atlantic says for some people, regardless of...Posted in Culture and Politics, Current Events, Friday Five, nfti-home, Politics, Pop Culture | (0) Comments »
I'd Like To Ask The 'Deranged Sorority Girl' Why It's A Woman's Job To Entertain Men
By Lynn BeisnerApril 21, 2013
Lynn Beisner weighs in on the "deranged sorority girl" email that went viral last week. In a week packed with news, this so-called "deranged sorority girl" email still managed to go viral. It is from a senior sorority member to the rank and file members of the University of Maryland chapter of Delta Gamma. If you have not read the email, let me make a long and profanity-laced story short for ...Posted in Current Events, Gender Roles, Lynn, nfti-home, Sex and Relationships, Sexual Violence | (0) Comments »
Are Women Delaying Marriage Because They're Being Too Picky?
By Hugo SchwyzerApril 21, 2013
A new study reports on the rising average age of first marriage in the United States. While 20-something men delay for reasons that are primarily financial, women are described as overly picky and fearful. It may have been easy to miss in the recent wall-to-wall coverage of the Supreme Court and gay marriage, but a new study out this month heralds more “bad” news for the state of h...Posted in Current Events, Hugo, Marriage, nfti-home, Sex and Relationships | (0) Comments »
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