The publishing world is continuing to send a generations-old message that a person’s gender and the color of their skin affects their ability to produce literature. Luckily, when I recently came across a New York Times essay by Jennifer Weiner about the increased pressure on female writers to tend to their looks, I was coming […]
For a country so taken with the idea of ‘family values,’ we do a remarkably terrible job at helping people start families. For a country so taken with the idea of “family values,” the United States does a remarkably terrible job at helping people start families. We are the only industrialized nation that doesn’t have […]
Get it up? Bring home the bacon? These are some rigid and narrow definitions of maleness that men feel pressured to contort themselves into. A while back, I wrote a piece called 5 Stupid, Unfair, and Sexist Things Expected of Men, about how sexism damages men as well as women, and how men and women get […]
