This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. Pregnancy and childbirth used to be so dangerous in centuries past that most women wrote their wills once they knew they were pregnant. Now we write birth plans, specifying the type of music we want playing while we’re in labor. Progress is a wonderful […]
This originally appeared on CharlieGlickman.com. Republished here with permission. I remember exactly when I first understood what “rape culture” meant. I was 19 and a sophomore in college. I was talking with a woman I knew about gender and sexual politics, and I just wasn’t getting it. She was describing what it was like for […]
The message that women are untrustworthy liars is everywhere in our culture—from TV and music, to politics and religion, says Soraya Chemaly. Two weeks ago a man in France was arrested for raping his daughter. She’d gone to her school counselor and then the police, but they needed “hard evidence.” So, she videotaped her next […]
Jennifer Benjamin wants to make sure people know she’s nice, so she fills emails and texts with overly enthusiastic e-speak (and the occasional emoticon). But she’s starting to annoy herself. I have a problem, an embarrassing problem. I’m ashamed to even admit it, although I have a feeling that my friends and family may already […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Standing Up For The Rights Of New Fathers by Tara Siegel Bernard of The New York Times says more workers are filing legal actions against their employers to gain paid parental leave for the birth […]
I believe that you can win a football game without being racist, sexist, and homophobic. I believe that you can be great without demeaning and subjugating others. But we all have to believe that. Sports are a hot mess right now. In the last three months, we’ve seen at least two incidents of a white […]
Gender equality will remain stalled until men and women are afforded the same rights to paid leave, says Soraya Chemaly. Josh Levs would like to stay home to care for his third child, a newborn daughter. As he explains in a Tumblr post, “I have only two choices: Stay out for 10 weeks without pay, […]
We’ve made gift-giving and celebration an obligatory pressure in an over-consumptive, materialistic, and wasteful society, says Leigh Naturkach. So she’s figured out a way to support her loved ones while still remaining true to her own values. I recently ran away from an acquaintance’s baby shower. Well, I purposely left the building a few minutes […]
