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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 »
Do Weddings Exist Today Just So We Can Document Them On Social Media?
By Jean Hannah EdelsteinMay 15, 2013
These days, it's practically part of the liturgy—the moment before the wedding ceremony when the celebrant asks assembled guests to put away cameras and phones. Every time I witness the sliding of smartphones and cameras back into pockets and wedding-only beaded clutch bags, I can't help but think the whole situation has become a chicken-and-egg question: Do we document weddings because ...Posted in Culture and Politics, Internet and Social Media, Marriage, nfti-home, 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 »
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 Dated A Don Draper
By Christan MarashioMay 02, 2013
Women may be drawn to the Don Draper types, says Christan Marashio, but he's an illusion. As he left my apartment he said that he didn’t want me to write about him. “But if you do write about me…” he tossed over his shoulder in his crisp British accent, “…call me Don Draper.” He was referring, of course, to the lead character in AMC’s prolifi...Posted in Dating, nfti-home, Pop Culture, Sex, Sex and Relationships | (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 »
Confessions Of A Thin-Privileged Fat Activist
By Claire MyskoApril 28, 2013
Once upon a time—before URLs, handles, likes, and shares—I put some good old-fashioned postage stamps inside an envelope and sent away for a zine (made of actual paper!) that was filled with some very big ideas. I was 16 and the zine was called i’m so fucking beautiful, a title that hooked me instantly because at the time I was quite literally starving myself of that sentiment...Posted in Life, nfti-home, Pop Culture, 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 »
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