Father’s Day may be just another Hallmark holiday, but Emily Heist Moss is reminded this week of how lucky she is to have her dad. My uncle died two years ago this week. Though younger than my mom, he’d married his high school sweetheart and had a handful of kids while my mother was still […]
Emily Heist Moss shares what goes through your mind when you find out your ex is HIV-positive. An email arrives from an old friend with the name of your ex-boyfriend in the subject line. In the body of the email, just this: “I’m totally shocked. When was the last time you talked to him?” You […]
When the rules don’t apply to you, you get to make up your own. I want an ungendered marriage. Although I am a straight woman and by all odds I will marry a straight man, I want a marriage where those labels are irrelevant. I want a partnership so devoid of gendered assumptions that if […]
Is the recent trend of celebrities sharing their deeply personal stories an effort to shine a light on issues everyone faces? Or is it more about lining their own pockets? Emily Heist Moss says it’s both, and that’s OK. Angelina Jolie Had Breast Removal Surgery. Christine Quinn Opens Up About Her Struggles with Bulimia and […]
Emily Heist Moss discusses how the decisions at the top trickle down to affect our everyday lives. “Nothing personal, but…” Uh oh. Nothing good ever comes from a statement that starts with “Nothing personal.” “Nothing personal, but I just think marriage should be between men and women.” “Nothing personal, but I don’t get what’s wrong […]
How can “boys’ club” industries, like tech, begin to create more space for the influx of women? In 2004, pregnant and waddling across the expanses of Google’s parking lot, Sheryl Sandberg realized something obvious: There should be parking spaces reserved for expectant mothers. She made the case to the CEOs and they promptly agreed and […]
More and more women are tuning in to porn, so why is so much of it still so misogynistic? “Want to watch porn tonight?” “Yes!” We settle in, pulling up one of the many aggregator sites available for people like us, looking to find some attractive strangers we want to watch get down. Let the […]
Wouldn’t it be great if, instead of criticizing the choices of others, we could ask each other honest questions about why we chose the way we chose? Do you ever feel like we’re repeating ourselves? I know my mother does. She listens to me talk about Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, a manifesto about women and […]
Taking care of yourself starts with taking pride in your body. Next week in New York’s Union Square Park, a mass of women will take on a fitness challenge that many would pass up. It’s not the high-intensity that scares people away, or the complicated moves, or intimidating instructors. It’s the wardrobe. To participate in […]
With so few women in powerful positions, we expect those who are to represent all of us, but that’s not fair, says Emily Heist Moss. Here’s a thought I’ve had before: Rihanna is a terrible role model. If I were a parent, I would not want my daughters to look up to her. Here’s a […]
When we think about women and men as entirely different species, as “others” that we need to learn to understand and interpret, we create the kind of divisions that let us do really, really bad things, says Emily Heist Moss. “I don’t know how to talk to them.” “I’m trying to understand how they think.” […]
Emily Heist Moss says it shouldn’t take having a gay kid for our political leaders to think about fairness and justice. Last week, Senator Rob Portman, a Republican of Ohio, finally reversed his position on marriage equality after his 21-year-old son came out nearly two years ago. In some circles, Portman was lauded for his […]
