Reason One: Giving Up is Hard to Do I’m a strong believer that men gain a huge amount from feminism. It’s been a theme of my writing and public speaking for 30 years (including in my new book, co-written with Michael Kimmel, The Guy’s Guide to Feminism.) But, let’s face it, you don’t make omelets […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Marriage: Saying ‘I Don’t’ by Stephanie Coontz of the Los Angeles Times asks: Now that only 51% of U.S. households are married couples, is marriage going the way of the electric typewriter and the VHS […]
Cohabitating is perfectly normal in today’s society. Yet “perfect” is not always what it seems and “normal” may not always be best. According to the National Survey of Family Growth, a 2002 survey of 13,000 respondents, 61 percent of women in their late 30s had cohabitated at some point in their lives, and 28 percent […]
What is it about marriage—an institution that was originally a means of transferring wealth along with domestic and reproductive services horizontally within society and vertically in a family—that we still fetishize so much? A lot of people, grandmas and older aunts and uncles notwithstanding, will tell you that marriage is the ultimate goal. You know […]
I’ve accumulated several licenses after 37 years. These documents empower me as a woman and contribute to my identity. My transition into adulthood is unequivocally tied to my credentials. My paperwork is a timeline of personal and professional growth. When I received my driver’s license, I felt incredibly free. (It’s amazing what four wheels and […]
The stereotype of the bare-faced, non-leg-shaving feminist has always peeved me, not only because it’s inaccurate, but because for the life of me I cannot fathom why any woman would forgo a simple act that can vastly improve her appearance. We’re not talking Kardashian levels of over-application—just a little blush, a couple squeezes of the […]
This originally appeared at MoxieMag.com. Republished here with permission. I’ve always been fat. I’m not one of those fat girls who has stories about when I was thin—because I was never thin. And I grew up with the knowledge that I was fat. When I was three years old I was playing outside with my […]
Mass media has trumpeted a market research study’s conclusion that young, single, childless, white women living in cities out-earn their male counterparts. Feminists would love to embrace the results, but, in fact, the analysis has many flaws, including the failure to account for educational differences. That hasn’t stopped The New York Times from characterizing this […]
