The recent Penn State sanctions remind Lynn Beisner of conversations with conservatives and their frequent inability to acknowledge their ancestors’ privilege, she says. I am forever looking for a way to understand conservatives. I want to see past the bluster and seemingly willful ignorance, to see them as hurting human beings and have compassion for […]
This originally appeared on Fem2.0. Republished here with permission. Like most women, I believe my male friends to be nice people. They don’t catcall or sexually harass women on the street, they are thoughtful and sweet, and they believe in women’s equality and gender justice like good progressives. And so I give them a break […]
Hugo Schwyzer says white male privilege is partly to blame for both the location and the scale of the recent Aurora, Colorado movie theater murders. Are white men particularly prone to carrying out the all-too-familiar mass killings of which last week’s Aurora shooting is just the latest iteration? Is there something about the white, male, […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. When Parents Hover and Kids Don’t Grow Up in the Room for Debate section of The New York Times asks if “helicopter parenting” is starting to crash and burn. 2.
Melissa Byrne is happy to see a woman in charge at a Fortune 500 company, but does not agree with Marissa Mayer’s support of Wal-Mart, which she says is known for exploiting its workers. I think its is easy for us to agree, especially those who identify as female, that it is still hard to […]
Juliet Kelso dissects a YouTube video that begs the question: Can men and women ever be equal if women aren’t allowed to take their tops off in public? The popular YouTube video titled “Why Men and Women Can Never Be Equal” involves a man and a woman mimicking one another on the metro. They are […]
Nancy L. Cohen explains the importance of the recent launch of a new lesbian PAC. A new Lesbian PAC (LPAC) opened for business last week with the goal of having impact on the 2012 election. Why does it matter? Mitt Romney is petrified that the anti-woman and anti-gay extremists who’ve hijacked the GOP are going […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. In Defense of Single People by Thomas Rogers of Salon.com says single people are pitied. They’re judged. But it’s time to give them more respect. 2. Are Modern Men Manly Enough? on the Room For […]
