Oh, honey. How can you argue against something that you don’t understand? Dear Dave, When I first read your article thanks to a wonderful feminist I know who shared it (who is also a devoted wife to a husband and mother to a son—doesn’t that just blow your mind?), I told her that I was […]
While one instance of street harassment is annoying, one every block can start to feel debilitating. It started for me last week, when I decided to spend a few hours running errands in the summer sunshine while audaciously wearing a loose-fitting baby doll dress, comfy flats, and a denim vest. Apparently my need to keep […]
It costs you nothing to bare your chest to the sun. Your body does not stand for anything other than itself. I heard four of you in less than a mile radius once on my way to buy milk. The day was sweltering, but I wanted to walk to the corner grocer up the street. […]
By daring to enter traditionally male spaces, like bars, by themselves, women project that it is open season. My friends and I were recently blindsided by the closing of our favorite bar. Over the years, the small Irish pub in our hometown had hosted our birthday celebrations, going away and welcome back parties, nights where […]
I look like a typical 51-year-old, and it is just bizarre realizing that my appearance is something many young women dread. I’m going to tell you a story that is so common and so troubling it is effectively split off from the emotional lives of young women, tucked away into whatever neural recesses exist for […]
If my looks have begun declining, well, I haven’t really noticed. And if I haven’t noticed, should I really bother worrying that anyone else has? Men check out my dog more than me. I only wish I were kidding. I’ve gotten used to catching unexpected smiles creep onto strangers’ faces while gazing at Henny (why […]
