One girl’s source of embarrassment can be another’s source of pride, says Hugo Schwyzer. “I’m going to be a cheerleader.” Those were the confident words of my four year-old daughter Heloise on a Sunday afternoon last month. We were in a hotel in Anaheim, getting ready for the Passover holiday. The same Hilton was packed […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. About The Children by Bill Keller of The New York Times discusses what it means for kids when gay parents can marry. 2. The Immense Value Of Giving Men More Control Of Household Tasks by […]
Since weddings no longer reflect the passage into adulthood, other celebrations have come to hold similar meaning. Ann Friedman recently wrote in New York Magazine about the parties we should have instead of weddings. With changing nuptial norms, weddings don’t actually reflect a passage into adulthood. She suggests a few alternatives, including a graduation shower […]
Children “belong” to no one, says Lynn Beisner, but it’s a parent’s role to shape them and society’s job to provide parents with the resources to do that. In the year 2013, this should go without saying, but apparently some people have not gotten the memo: No human being is entitled to own another human […]
This originally appeared on Ally Fogg’s blog. Republished here with permission. As I have written many times before, I believe people who are concerned about women’s human rights and well-being and about men’s human rights and well-being should be natural allies. That’s pretty much the core of my philosophy on gender issues. I’ve made clear […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Dunham Can’t Write Men by Dustin Rowles of Salon.com says most all of Lena Dunham’s male characters are misogynists or closet date rapists, and none of them are wholly believable. (We don’t agree with this […]
So the Pope washed the feet of a couple women last week, but that doesn’t change the Catholic Church’s centuries-old policies against women. I saw a picture this week of the new Pope hugging a disabled child on Easter. Just a few days before, he washed the feet of two Italian prisoners, one of whom […]
This originally appeared on MichaelKaufman.com. Republished here with permission. The conviction of two young men for the rape of an unconscious 16-year-old woman in Steubenville, Ohio, should lead us to much-needed discussion about attitudes toward sexual assault and the type of education and social changes we need to end it. Unfortunately, much of the mainstream […]
