Much of the media coverage of the recent Secret Service scandal in Colombia has focused on the “boys will be boys” logic and the potential danger to our national security, but Corey Barr says too little attention has been given to what these events say about power relations in military cultures. I have to admit, […]
There is no way to measure whose lot is harder, and it shouldn’t matter anyway. In the wake of Hilary Rosen’s comments about stay-at-home mother Ann Romney, Kate McGuinness urges women to stop letting political rhetoric interfere with solidarity. The latest skirmish in the battle for women’s votes centers on whether it’s “harder” to be […]
After Ann Romney admits that she often raised six boys, not just her five sons, Hugo Schwyzer wonders if Mitt Romney’s latest attempt to gain likeability among voters simply perpetuates the myth that men are nothing more than overgrown boys. Are we ready for a Peter Pan Presidency? Judging from one campaign ad, perhaps we […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. The ‘Pregnancy Police’ Are Everywhere (Even in Your Head) by KJ Dell’Antonia of The New York Times Motherlode blog asks: Are pregnant women who color their hair—or paint their toenails, or hire a baby nurse, […]
Hugo Schwyzer says that a man can redirect his desires away from young girls, but doing so requires three serious steps. Can the age of the people to whom we are most attracted age with us, or is it doomed to stay stuck at one particular chronological point? Our culture teaches us that female desirability […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Census Data Reveals Elder Women’s Poverty Crisis by Leslie Bennetts of The Daily Beast says that a study of census data reveals that more than half of older women in America are unable to pay […]
Despite his anti-feminist views, Rick Santorum has still managed to cultivate a faction of female Conservative supporters. But how? Hugo Schwyzer points to Santorum’s “soft patriarchy” as one possible answer to that question. Why do so many women love Rick Santorum, arguably the most anti-feminist major party political candidate in a generation? The New York […]
Women’s History Month is great, says Judith Rosenbaum, but what about the rest of the year? When people focus on women’s history in the form of a dedicated month, it doesn’t really move women’s history to the center—it just moves it to March. Here’s a not-so-secret little secret about me: I’m a major women’s history […]
