Children “belong” to no one, says Lynn Beisner, but it’s a parent’s role to shape them and society’s job to provide parents with the resources to do that. In the year 2013, this should go without saying, but apparently some people have not gotten the memo: No human being is entitled to own another human […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Dunham Can’t Write Men by Dustin Rowles of Salon.com says most all of Lena Dunham’s male characters are misogynists or closet date rapists, and none of them are wholly believable. (We don’t agree with this […]
So the Pope washed the feet of a couple women last week, but that doesn’t change the Catholic Church’s centuries-old policies against women. I saw a picture this week of the new Pope hugging a disabled child on Easter. Just a few days before, he washed the feet of two Italian prisoners, one of whom […]
This originally appeared on MichaelKaufman.com. Republished here with permission. The conviction of two young men for the rape of an unconscious 16-year-old woman in Steubenville, Ohio, should lead us to much-needed discussion about attitudes toward sexual assault and the type of education and social changes we need to end it. Unfortunately, much of the mainstream […]
Danielle Paradis discusses trans woman Calliope Wong’s recent rejection from Smith College, a university known for its focus on women’s rights. Smith College has a peppy slogan, “She Went to Smith,” that highlights some of the brilliant alumni who have graduated, including Julia Child, Gloria Steinem, and Syliva Plath. The college has about 2,600 undergraduates […]
Lynn Beisner discusses why it’s not OK to objectify men. I don’t usually have celebrity crushes, and I am not usually attracted to men on a purely visual level. One of the few celebrity crushes I have is for George Clooney. It only developed after I saw him on Inside the Actor’s Studio talking about […]
Chanel Dubofsky discusses Yvonne Brill’s ridiculous obit in The New York Times this weekend, and shares how she’d like to be remembered. I have not been to a lot of funerals. The ones I have been to, though, have been for the two women who raised me, so I was paying pretty close attention to […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. ‘Roe’ Didn’t Incite The Culture Wars, And Neither Would A Supreme Court Ruling For Marriage Equality by Jill Filipovic of The Nation says the Supreme Court Justices should ask themselves: Does history look kindly upon […]
Many polyamorous partnerships are deeply intimate, loving, meaningful relationships, so why aren’t they included in the marriage rights discussion? At this point in the same-sex marriage debate, everyone is familiar with the “slippery slope” argument relied on so often by conservatives: If we allow gay marriage, then soon we’ll be allowing groups of three or […]
Why does the media insist on turning recent marriage and childbirth data into a competition between men and women? It seems that my lady friend has higher class ambitions than I ever dared to guess. We met at the embarrassingly old age of 24, and three years later she has asked me to wait before […]
Marriage is not a cure-all for our social ills. So why do we obsess over it so much? Is there a marriage “crisis” in this country? As we wait for the Supreme Court to debate the future of single-sex marriage, it’s hard to miss the headlines speculating how much the institution of marriage is changing […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Steubenville Rapists Can Be Saved by Irin Carmon of Salon.com says for all the justified outrage at the Steubenville offenders, rehab can and does work. Their lives are not “over.” 2. New Poll Shows Huge […]
