What if I don’t get any cards? It’s been nearly 35 years since I was last in elementary school, but I can still remember the anxiety that accompanied the February 14ths of my childhood. Though the practice has ended in many American schools, when I was growing up students were expected to give a Valentine’s […]
Let me say up front that I’m all for questioning cultural norms around gender and sexuality. I’m certainly not going to have a “normal” Valentine’s Day. My sex-positive film series here in Chicago always happens on the second Tuesday of the month, and this month that happens to be V-Day—so on the 14th, I’ll be screening a […]
My inbox has been filled with emails with “romantic” in the subject line—lots of deals on dinners for two, flower delivery, wine tastings, and couples massages. Then there are all the things I need to be doing to look my best for the big day: blowouts, manicures, massages, etc. Ugh. It’s Valentine’s Day again. I hate V-day, […]
Remember Britney Spears? Oh, that’s right, Britney Spears: one of the most famous recording artists in the world. I gotta admit I don’t think about her much, although it turns out she’s still going strong—the music video for her latest #1 single even includes a dubstep-ish interlude during which she boxes a high-heeled clone of herself. But as absurd […]
When most people think of long-term, multiple-partner relationships, the only thing that comes to mind is probably patriarchal, religion-based polygamy of the Sister Wives and Big Love variety. In actuality, however, there are a sizable number of people living in far more egalitarian polyamorous relationships: folks with two or more romantic partners, in all imaginable […]
This was originally published in slightly different form at No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz? Republished here with permission. I was arguing with a friend a while back; we’re both atheists, but he’s one of the ones who feels compelled to be rude about it. He was asking where the notion that one has to […]
This originally appeared on ThoughtCatalog.com. Republished here with permission. All I’ve wanted to do this past week is take Cynthia Nixon out, buy her a cappuccino and a scone, and spend an hour or so commiserating over how awful people can be. On January 19, Nixon, best known for playing Miranda on Sex and the […]
“Childfree” is defined by Wikipedia as thus: “… ’voluntary childlessness’ is a form of childlessness. The term was coined in the English language late in the 20th century and is used to describe people who have made a personal decision not to have children… The meaning of the term childfree extends to encompass the children […]
