I’ve habitually, if unconsciously, compared myself to other white women who, in far greater numbers than women of color, are granted competitor status in America’s Olympics of life. “Stop talking to her. That girl is your enemy.” These are the words of Tonya Harding’s mother, LaVona, to a pre-teen Tonya at her skating lesson in […]
It tells us a lot about why misogyny continues to be such a major problem. If you’re a woman who plays or even just talks about video games online, odds are you’ve encountered the misogynist flying monkeys of the Internet: Troops of bizarrely embittered young men, often using the name “Gamergate,” who aim inchoate rage […]
While they claim to speak for men, their rhetoric may be just as bad for men as it is for women. One of the weirder developments of the online publishing era is the way a loose confederation of embittered anti-feminists has formed, across social media and the blogging world, under the banner of “men’s rights […]
Female sexuality is often defined in terms of what men want. Sprout Pharmaceuticals is on the warpath. The pill company keeps applying, now for the third time, to authorize sales of a drug called flibanserin, which has been nicknamed “female Viagra,” but the FDA just keeps turning it down. Sprout would like you to believe it’s […]
Nope, cat-calling isn’t cute when handsome or successful men do it. One of the most frustrating and common experiences of being a woman is having men tell you they know better than you do what women think and feel. By increasing the number of conversations people get to have, the Internet has also increased the number […]
This originally appeared on Alternet. Republished here with permission. They claim sex education is an attempt to get kids “hooked” on sex. Despite the fact that people have been having sex since literally before there were people, the religious right never stops acting like sex is some great conspiracy to bring about the end of […]
This originally appeared on Alternet. Republished here with permission. Our view of modern relationships is totally warped. What makes someone “single”? When it comes to official forms, news, and punditry, and even in fictional movies and TV shows, the world seems to be divided into two kinds of people: Married people and single people. But […]
This originally appeared on Alternet. Republished here with permission. Thanks to America’s schizoid attitude toward sex, we get the wrong message about some essential relationship and sex issues. Most Americans, parents included, support the idea of comprehensive sex education. But, as Americans slowly wean themselves off the failure that was “abstinence-only education,” few people are […]
