Photos of her rape went viral. But she’s refusing to hide. You know someone who has been raped. It might be your mother. It might be your sister. It might be your co-worker. In all likelihood, you will never know. Unlike 16-year-old Jada from Houston, Texas. Powered by Twitter, bullies, misogynists, and downright assholes are […]
Where are the husky female athletes? I really want to love The Body Issue, ESPN The Magazine’s annual ode to lats, delts, quads, and strategically placed, crotch-covering shadows. It is, on paper, the kind of thing I would love, using beautiful photography to highlight the incredible feats of which the human body is capable. I’ve […]
They know it isn’t a piece of paper that binds a family together. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage. When that little rhyme—rigidly prescriptive or whimsical, depending on one’s perspective—made the rounds in the 1960s and ’70s, it felt like a clarion call to a life fulfilled. Its […]
Walmart will soon put a logo on products produced by women-owned companies. Is this helpful or patronizing? Shouldn’t women be striving for a level playing field rather than special treatment? “Your dollar is your vote” has echoed across the consuming nation in recent years, and the attitude behind it, that we should all care about the […]
A new Pew study finds that young Americans aren’t convinced that marriage and kids should be a priority. A recent Pew Research Center poll of American attitudes on marriage and children suggests what anyone paying attention has known for years: Young Americans recognize that there is more to life than making families. Conservatives may decry these […]
There were many things in place to protect the harasser, but very little in place to protect me. It’s telling that when I started writing this essay I caught myself trying to write “well, my experience of sexual harassment wasn’t that bad.” Because everything is relative, and because I think many women have a tendency […]
I will never apologize for doing what is right for my body. Well, maybe there’s one wrong way, I thought, inspecting my surrogate little sister’s half-used pill pack, every second or third pouch punched out like answers on a Scantron sheet. “These aren’t like Advil, babe,” I told her. “In order for them to work, […]
Who is helped when we refuse to be accurate about rape? Certainly not rape victims. Last week, an Englishman was sentenced to five years in jail for raping a woman while she slept. As the judge put it, “She was a pretty girl who you fancied. You simply could not resist. You had sex with […]
