Abortion is not to be taken lightly, Michelle says, but the GOP ticket stands so firmly against it because they don’t know what it’s like to have their rights taken away from them. If Paul Ryan had his way, I would now have a child in high school. Assuming that child made it to high […]
In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Kate McGuinness offers advice on how to help a victim. Susie comes to my home regularly to help with cleaning. About a year ago, her usual helper took a different job. When Susie asked if her adult daughter Gay could come instead, I agreed. Gay appeared for the […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Debate Moves Women To Fore In Race For The White House by Michael D. Shear of The New York Times says President Obama argued that Mitt Romney would oppose equal pay for women and block […]
Mitt Romney’s attack on unmarried people during this week’s debate left Nicole Rodgers asking: Are his outdated family values becoming a threat to ours? During Tuesday night’s second presidential debate, while answering a question about assault rifles, Mitt Romney veered off on a family-values tangent. “But gosh, to tell our kids that before they have […]
Emily Heist Moss explores the difference between equal opportunity and equal outcome, saying Romney faked a fair and balanced cabinet without addressing the reasons he needed “binders of women” in the first place. In Tuesday’s Presidential debate, during a question about the state of women in America, Governor Romney described his tenure as Massachusetts governor […]
Writing about—and recognizing—privilege can be productive, says Patrick McNeil. I went through a Women’s Studies graduate program. And I’m a man. And this is difficult for some people to conceptualize. That there is a place at all for men in feminism is difficult for some people, too. On a post I recently published on Feministe, […]
Lynn Beisner offers her take on Mitt Romney’s ridiculous “binders full of women” comment in last night’s debate. Affirmative action has an unlikely new advocate: Mitt Romney. Granted, I am not sure that he realized he was advocating for affirmative action during last night’s debate, but he did a better job than most professors of […]
Chanel Dubofsky responds to the recent outing and harsh criticism of an anonymous blogger who pokes fun at parents who over-share online. Very recently, one of my favorite (OK, maybe my only) anonymous bloggers, Blair Koenig from STFU Parents, revealed her identity. STFU Parents, if you’re not familiar, is a blog that mocks the curious […]
