My mother, who grew up in the Midwest in the 1950’s, can do anything with her hands. She can sew, cook, fix plumbing, and diagnose an electrical problem. She can garden, compost, paint, and decorate. She taught me how to drive and she could parallel park the Titanic. Like most women of her generation, she […]
So far, 2011 hasn’t been a good year to be a woman in America. Your health is under attack from Congress, your wages are in jeopardy and you’re still not at the power table. Unless, apparently, you’re a mommy blogger. This week’s New York Times Magazine featured yet another profile of Dooce, the super mommy […]
I’ll never forget when a good friend said of her husband, “I swear he’s happier now that he finally makes more money than I do.” Yeah, many of us might secretly think that when breadwinning roles are reversed. But I’ve never seen any data proving this. Even worse, the media blitz covering the “Mancession” has […]
A new Pew Study finds that “Even though most Americans have grown more comfortable with same-sex or unmarried couples raising children, they still view single mothers as detrimental to society, according to a new poll of attitudes toward the country’s soaring number of nontraditional families.” 40% of births are to unmarried women in this country. A […]
Yes, apparently posts like this are still necessary. Sigh. Female science blogger writes, “A few weeks ago, I received a Facebook message. It was from a male admirer of my blog (and his fiancée, coincidentally). In it, he said “You are GORGEOUS, and your tits look absolutely incredible.” I froze. I know it was meant […]
In Session One of Turn the Page we review the current media coverage of “The End of Men.” I always read this coverage with a grain of salt, but now I’m getting worried about it affect on men and women and sex and power. Much in the same way we’re questioning whether the state of […]
From SFGate.com: “A teacher at an East Oakland elementary school has been placed on leave as officials investigate accusations that two of his second-grade students engaged in oral sex in the classroom and that some ran around without their clothes on, a district spokesman said Friday.” Salon wonders, is this a sad case of an abused child […]
From MomsRising.org, marriage and family scholar Coontz: “We have to rise up against the idea that balance is a woman’s issue, says Stephanie Coontz, it’s equally a men’s issue. Currently, men are reporting higher levels of work family conflict than women.” Few people know more about the state of the American family’s past and present besides Stephanie Coontz, the […]
One of the founders of the Good Men Project shares his views on how to raise good boys. My favorite: ” If you don’t believe in God, you will once you have lain next to your overactive son while his body goes limp next to you, and he ever so faintly begins to snore.” More […]
Oh Good Lord. In Session Four of Turn the Page we look at the state of sex on college campuses. There’s much hand-wringing over sex’s impact on young women’s self-esteem. The latest entry from Salon: Not a day goes by when we don’t hear about the incredible accomplishments of today’s kick-butt young women. They outnumber […]
I’m not convinced pornography is feminist, but I’d still like to hear the argument! From Jezebel: ” Author, sex educator, and award-winning feminist pornographer Tristan Taormino was uninvited as the keynote speaker at OSU’s Modern Sex conference due to “her resume and website.” Wasn’t her resume the reason she was booked in the first place?” Read more: http://jezebel.com/5738022/oregan-state-cancels-conference-keynote-over-porn – Morra […]
Awww…baby daddy Orlando Bloom shot this lovely photo of supermodel Miranda Kerr feeding their infant son. Is the popularity of this photo (in People magazine!) a radical act? Salon writes, “How lovely then not just that Kerr posted a blissful photo that sweetly evokes those magical early bonding days with a baby, but that the picture has […]
