This originally appeared on Everyday Feminism. Republished here with permission. The question of whether or not to come out at work is a loaded one—one that many fear will have a huge impact on their job satisfaction, hiring potential, career path, and employment status. If you’re considering coming out at work, these are probably already […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. The Year In Sex by Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com says it was a good year for sex. Whether it was K-Stew’s infidelity or kinky “mommy porn,” we just couldn’t stop talking about it. Here’s a handy […]
Emily Heist Moss says her tight yoga pants aren’t the problem, it’s your self-control, dudes. A few weeks ago, I wrote an open letter to a man who harassed my roommate and I outside a Chicago bar. My goal was to address harassers and their apologists and to add a few layers of context around […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Hasbro Makes An Easy-Bake Oven For Boys by Hanna Rosin of Slate.com says when some companies are called out for being small-minded or bigoted, they get even more small-minded and stupid. Others do the right thing. […]
What are we telling young boys if the examples of fatherhood they see everyday are parodies of incompetence? Every time I see a promo for the new Scott Baio sitcom, See Dad Run, I gag a little. I can hardly believe that a) Scott Baio is still working, and b) they’re still pushing this “Idiot Dad” […]
If you refuse to talk about stricter gun laws, Edwin Lyngar says you’re accepting dead children as the cost of doing business. I can’t stomach the thought of so many dead children in Connecticut. It’s beyond what I can accept as a human being, but I have no solutions for how to stop it. As […]
Must women transcend their femininity to truly be considered funny? In a recent piece on women and raunch culture, Emily Heist Moss wrote the following: “There’s a danger here that we [will] slide too far past refreshing, humanizing, true-to-life humor, and skid into the arena of that lowest common denominator humor that my mother was […]
Lynn Beisner discusses the risks of parenthood in the wake of the deadly Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting. Like most parents, I felt a huge wave of sympathetic grief last week when I learned of the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. A friend of mine with children in school called to talk about how anxious she […]
