New anti-rape underwear is just another way for women to shoulder the burden of sexual violence and misogyny. But if they could help keep you safe, would you wear them? This post discusses sexual assault, and may upset some readers. You’re going clubbing with your friends. What do you wear? That slinky dress you just […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. When Street Harassment Is More Deadly Than Catcalls by Holly Kearl of Ms. Magazine says: While people may think it is a stretch to connect catcalls with assault and attempted murder, sometimes catcalls escalate into […]
Sure, girls are told, be a ghost, firefighter, or mummy. But be a sexy one. As a child, I remember time and again imagining myself as being someone or something else. During those seemingly endless hours of pretend play, I became lost in the reality of who or what I was depicting, and those times […]
Emily Heist Moss responds to Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes’ epic rant about how feminism is destroying the “natural order” of things. This essay began as a project to answer the question “Is feminism working?” but was interrupted by the arrival of Gavin McInnes’ video outburst on HuffPo Live. As someone who routinely devotes 140 characters […]
This originally appeared on Salon. Republished here with permission. Last week, the terrible news came from Maryville, Mo. In a well-reported story for the Kansas City Star, Dugan Arnett details a situation as appalling as it is familiar. The comparisons to what took place in Steubenville are inevitable. Young men and women, popular athletes and […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. College Women: Stop Getting Drunk by Emily Yoffe of Slate.com says it’s closely related with sexual assault. And yet we’re reluctant to tell women to stop doing it. (We do not agree with her stance, […]
If the NFL really wants to find a way to monetize their female fan base, it will take more than a few stadium rule changes, says Kelly Siegel-Stechler. I’m a woman. A skirt-wearing, home-cooking woman. And I really, really love American football. Not in a pink jersey sort of way, either. I love the combination […]
Facebook contributes very little outside of socializing, where the same old social ineptitudes that haven’t evolved past high school are played out, says Jocelyn Hoppa. The final nail in the coffin for me quitting Facebook came on the heels of news that the social media site’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg’s, net worth weighs in at approximately […]
