The Friday Five

This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women.

1. Let’s Not Panic Over Women With More Education Having Fewer Kids by Philip Cohen of The Atlantic says though the phenomenon has been called “reverse Darwinism,” a look at the facts and figures reveals it’s not as scary as it seems.

2. Stop Calling Us Wives And Moms by Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com discusses a petition that calls on President Obama to drop his retro rhetoric about women.

3. More Women Are Taking Their Husband’s Last Names. I (Sort Of) Did Too. by Jessica Grose of Slate.com discusses Beyonce’s “Mrs. Carter Show” and how some married women today are often “situational name users.”

4. Nine Things Women Actually Want For Valentine’s Day by Rachel Krantz of The Daily Beast says on this romantic of holidays, ignore the marketing schemes and find out what actual females actually want. Hint: not jewelry.

5. Why Do Women Always Have To Be The Condom Police, Anyway? by Emily of xoJane asks: Why are women repeatedly positioned as the condom police, serving as the sole person responsible for insisting on safe sex?

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