This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Sexual Double Standards, Slut-Shaming And #Slanegirl by Katie McDonough of Salon.com says an explicit photo of a teen girl goes viral. The boy is saluted as a hero, while the girl gets trashed online. 2. […]
This originally appeared at The Guardian. Republished here with permission. Ready to ‘lean in’ and tackle the old boys’ clubhouse? Be prepared to work harder and have your appearance criticized. In the next month tens of thousands of women will enroll in graduate school with the goal of being hired in male-dominated professions. They may […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Man Creates Very First Website For Women Ever by Amanda Hess of Slate.com reports on Bryan Goldberg’s new website for women, which ridiculously claims to be the first of its kind. 2. No One, Male […]
The granddaughter of a famous televangelist shares how she lost her religion, but kept her faith. The fundamental problem with faith and sexuality is religion. Religion, as a subset of culture, generally aims to control and objectify women. I would know. I am a woman whose upbringing provided a front row seat to the world’s […]
Originally appeared on Everyday Feminism. Republished here with permission. How do you decide what to do when facing a sketchy guy, or a sketchy situation? Trust your intuition, right? Not so fast. Because I bet George Zimmerman thought he was trusting his intuition when he followed Trayvon Martin. When teaching self-defense, I do tell my […]
In the wake of yesterday’s Stop-and-Frisk ruling, Khadijah White pleads with the President to do more in defense of people of color. Dear Mr. President, Yesterday in New York, a judge made a groundbreaking ruling in evaluating the city’s Stop-and-Frisk policies as a violation of constitutional rights. “No one should live in fear of being […]
This originally appeared on Dear Me. Republished here with permission. Women are 50% of the world. Half. And yet so often, they are othered, which means that women are treated as outsiders, as the deviation from the norm (the norm being men in this case). This sounds like a terrible thing, and one we’d all […]
This originally appeared on Journey Of Love. Republished here with permission. By now most have read or at least caught wind of Judith Warner’s New York Times Magazine article The Opt-Out Generation Wants Back In. The article centers on stories of affluent women who left high-powered jobs during the so-called Opt-Out Revolution, to become stay-at-home […]
