Getting married and having kids used to signal the transition into adulthood, but what are the signs of adulthood today? Last fall I visited Vienna, Austria, for the first time. While other tourists might consider the opera and the palace must-sees, I opted for Prater amusement park. Riding the tallest swings ride I’ve ever been […]
Why does society often view childless women as sad or bitter? Just because you can doesn’t mean you want to or even should have children. Michelle Rabil responds to a recent Slate.com article about the public perception of child-free women. When I got the OK to write a response to Katie Roiphe’s Slate article “Do We Secretly […]
My inbox has been filled with emails with “romantic” in the subject line—lots of deals on dinners for two, flower delivery, wine tastings, and couples massages. Then there are all the things I need to be doing to look my best for the big day: blowouts, manicures, massages, etc. Ugh. It’s Valentine’s Day again. I hate V-day, […]
The stereotype of the bare-faced, non-leg-shaving feminist has always peeved me, not only because it’s inaccurate, but because for the life of me I cannot fathom why any woman would forgo a simple act that can vastly improve her appearance. We’re not talking Kardashian levels of over-application—just a little blush, a couple squeezes of the […]
Other than random viewings of porn and the occasional Penthouse, before last year I had not seen that many vaginas. I, therefore, assumed we are all pretty much on equal footing in that department, looks-wise. Apparently I was wrong. I discovered this last year, when a friend and I viewed, on a vaginoplasty website, more […]
Google the words “cougar sexist” and you’ll pull up enough opinions to keep you busy for quite a while. On one side are women like Kim Cattrall. She is so offended by the term that she refused to pose with a real cougar for a magazine targeting women over 40. The magazine responded by dropping […]
