When the rules don’t apply to you, you get to make up your own. I want an ungendered marriage. Although I am a straight woman and by all odds I will marry a straight man, I want a marriage where those labels are irrelevant. I want a partnership so devoid of gendered assumptions that if […]
Plenty of female characters on TV today have made being a “hot mess” popular, but Emilie Aries wants women to stop pretending to be coy and confused, and start acting like they’re in charge. I’ll confess it: I’m a recovering hot mess. In the years after college, I was often self-deprecating and unconfident, minimizing my […]
There’s a dance involved with online dating that many have yet to learn, says Christan Marashio. “Let me also be honest here, you are one of the prettiest women I have seen on OKCupid. However, I must be honest with you again…I really enjoy eating women out, I could probably do it for hours on […]
This originally appeared on Charlie Glickman’s website. Republished here with permission. I recently discovered a post that Yahsar Ali wrote last year about the ways in which men are often coddled around their emotions by the women in their lives. Rather than expecting guys to speak up about their feelings, to apologize when they need […]
Dana Norris is the founder of Story Club. She once went on 71 Internet dates. This was one of them. Patrick and I have gone on two dates and one late night train ride full of Libertarian tirades and I am digging this guy. We’ve spent upwards of 20 hours on the phone together, he’s […]
Men are often expected to support their grieving female partners after a pregnancy loss, but who’s supporting them? Chris had a miscarriage. We were about nine weeks in when the doctor unceremoniously announced he could no longer detect a heartbeat in our pea-sized bundle to be. I stared and stared at the ultrasound monitor, willing […]
We accept the love we think we deserve. I looked out the window to make sure my car was still there. I had parked it in a tow away zone. If he drove past it right now he wouldn’t know where I was, because where I parked left options for my whereabouts. Maybe he would […]
Do rough times show you who your real friends are? Laurel Hermanson says it’s not that simple. I sometimes think my daughter’s third birthday party was the best day of her life. She wanted a pirate theme, so we decorated the backyard and ordered a custom cake in the shape of a parrot. Since it […]
