Some women have an easier time making guy friends than girl friends. But calling her a ‘guy’s girl’ can be insulting. Here’s why. During my junior and senior years of college, I lived in an off-campus house with, depending on the semester, four to five male friends. For brief periods of time, a female friend […]
Sarah Erdreich is a self-identified feminist, but she still wanted her husband to propose. Years ago, a close friend told me that he was going to propose to his girlfriend the following week. “That’s great,” I replied, not very surprised; we’d been having this conversation for months, always followed by brainstorming ways he could do […]
When you’re friends with both people involved in a break up, what’s the protocol for being a supportive friend to one without bashing the other? A few years ago, my husband introduced his friend Jack to Leila, a friend of a friend. (All names have been changed.) Leila and Jack began dating, and soon the […]
The idea that a woman can love her own child and passionately support abortion rights should not be a provocative one. But it still is. I tried for almost a year to become pregnant. I was 33, then 34; not old by any measure, except the very particular one involving fertility. One month before I […]
