Linguistic patterns hold over time with repeated and widespread use, contributing to our culture in ways that often fly under the radar. In February, I wrote a piece on having been raised by a sex-positive mother. It was a topic that had been stirring in the back of my mind for a while, as my […]
Our kids don’t need to know yet about all of life’s twists and turns, hopes and heartaches. But I can’t help but feel a little pride when my daughter rattles off the names of the candidates or gives her opinion of each member of the line-up. “So Hillary Clinton won last night for the Democrats,” […]
Have you had the chance to sit and chat with a woman who was forced to give birth to a child? Hi, Donald. Can I call you Donald, at least for now? I loved “The Apprentice.” My mom and stepfather (let’s call him dad because I do) watched too. Sometimes when we got together we’d chat […]
Punishing women for seeking abortions is nothing new. But thanks for the reminder, Mr. Trump. Many people, including a number of Republicans, profess to being scared and shocked by Donald Trump’s recent comments about abortion. Donald Trump said in a new interview Wednesday that he would support banning abortions, as well as “some form of […]
Are we doing what’s best for our child or are we doing things that will make us look and feel like the best parents? In India, a child’s first haircut is ceremoniously cut during his first or third year. Hindus believe hair represents unwanted traits from past lives. Traditionally, during Mundan Sanskar, a priest is […]
It still sucks to be a woman sometimes, in both the most boring and most dangerous of ways. It all started with a light. A light in the hallway of our apartment building in Boston. A light—just a bare bulb, really—that shines through a window into our bedroom where I sleep fitfully most nights even […]
Folks invested in the U.S. presidential race are picking sides in an O.K. Corral sort of way—reason and civility be damned—and it’s getting ugly. These are particularly polarizing times. I mean polarizing to the extreme, if that’s not too obvious a redundancy. Folks invested in the U.S. presidential race are picking sides in an O.K. […]
The words we use and the stories we tell in our games and books and movies are important because they not only reveal how we see our world, but they also show how our world could be. In the pantheon of the greatest “classic” video games of all time, males are abundantly overrepresented as the […]
