This week as part of Nicole Rodgers’ role as contributing correspondent on the Deb Colitti Show she discussed the 40th anniversary of Ms. Magazine, Free To Be…You And Me, and more. Click here to listen. Nicole’s interview starts at the 31:38 mark. Photo credit Scorch 07/Flickr Related Links: Nicole Rodgers on the Deb Colitti Show […]
This week Nicole appeared on the Deb Colitti Show, along with feminist pornographer Tristan Taormino, to discuss rethinking modern marriage. Click here to listen. Nicole’s interview starts at the 28:11 mark. Photo credit Scorch07/Flickr
There’s something that still fascinates people about the Playboy mansion and Hugh Hefner. Despite the magazine’s falling circulation numbers (which, with an internet is full of free porn, seems like a forgone conclusion) and rumors about the mansion being sold to pay off Playboy’s debts, coverage of the goings-on of Hefner and his buxom blondes […]
It’s the time of year when the days become longer, the temperatures rise, and pools everywhere open for the season. What does that mean? Well, mostly that I’m glued to my couch on Monday nights because The Bachelorette is back on TV! (What? It’s really hot here in DC anyway. Who’d want to be outside […]
Have you heard? Kim Kardashian is apparently the First Woman To Ever Get Married, or so you might think from all the media coverage of the recently-engaged star. Kim Kardashian is a brand unto herself, making thousands of dollars in appearance fees and loaning her image to products such as Skechers Shape-Ups and various diet […]
Does watching porn ruin marriages? Are porn users more likely to have unrealistic expectations of their partners? Do all women hate porn? Do all men love porn? These are all questions Vicki Larson takes on (with only minimal success) in her piece on the Huffington Post. Larson’s piece is problematic, but it does get the […]
Jim Wallace’s call for zero tolerance of sexist men was both timely and interesting. Since it’s common for cases of men blatantly disrepecting women to be big media stories (the examples Wallace points to are all good examples of this: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and Donald Trump’s on-going issues) stories about men who are making […]
AskMen’s Top 10 Signs You’re Not an Alpha Male seems to be an attempt at combining features of an enlightened man with some traditional male gender stereotypes with the language of The Hangover. Some folks over at AskMen must be pretty scared that the Alpha Male is a dying breed in need of defending. The […]
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels’ announcement that he would not be seeking the GOP nomination for the 2012 presidential race because his family had exercised their veto power has gained a lot of traction in the news. This discussion also raises a lot of questions about parenting and spousal roles and responsibility. Both Mitch and his […]
I applaud the idea behind McKinsey & Company’s new special report, Unlocking the full potential of women in the U.S. economy, which hits on a number of important issues including why more women are not getting into higher management positions; how choices about the quality of the work/life balance affect both men and women; and […]
A recent blog post on Psychology Today, Why Feminism is the Anti-Viagra, supposes itself to be an argument about how the freedom and equality for which feminism has fought directly contradicts the wiring of sexual arousal in the brain. That is, women are sexually wired to want dominant men and to be submissive in the […]
