This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Rape Remarks Haunt The GOP by Steve Kornacki of Salon.com says Richard Mourdock becomes the latest candidate to embarrass himself. Will it cost his party the Senate? 2. Shades of Gay by Charles M. Blow […]
No matter how angry Richard Mourdock’s recent rape comments make people, wishing him harm is never the answer. Because it’s a day of the week, another member of the GOP has said something deeply misogynistic. This time, it was Indiana U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock declaring that pregnancy resulting from rape (and by extension, the […]
Bringing an end to online bullying means understanding that cyber-predators are as much exhibitionists as they are voyeurs, says Hugo Schwyzer. It’s been a bad month for online bullies. The exposure of Violentacrez, (“the biggest troll on the web”) and the successful hunt for the man who hounded young Amanda Todd to suicide have made […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Debate Moves Women To Fore In Race For The White House by Michael D. Shear of The New York Times says President Obama argued that Mitt Romney would oppose equal pay for women and block […]
Mitt Romney’s attack on unmarried people during this week’s debate left Nicole Rodgers asking: Are his outdated family values becoming a threat to ours? During Tuesday night’s second presidential debate, while answering a question about assault rifles, Mitt Romney veered off on a family-values tangent. “But gosh, to tell our kids that before they have […]
Emily Heist Moss explores the difference between equal opportunity and equal outcome, saying Romney faked a fair and balanced cabinet without addressing the reasons he needed “binders of women” in the first place. In Tuesday’s Presidential debate, during a question about the state of women in America, Governor Romney described his tenure as Massachusetts governor […]
Lynn Beisner offers her take on Mitt Romney’s ridiculous “binders full of women” comment in last night’s debate. Affirmative action has an unlikely new advocate: Mitt Romney. Granted, I am not sure that he realized he was advocating for affirmative action during last night’s debate, but he did a better job than most professors of […]
Chanel Dubofsky responds to the recent outing and harsh criticism of an anonymous blogger who pokes fun at parents who over-share online. Very recently, one of my favorite (OK, maybe my only) anonymous bloggers, Blair Koenig from STFU Parents, revealed her identity. STFU Parents, if you’re not familiar, is a blog that mocks the curious […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Who Needs Casual Sex by Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com says after spending much of her 20s hooking up, she’s shocked to find that traditional courtship is pretty great. 2. Why Stacey Dash’s Looks—Not Her Race—Matter […]
Hugo Schwyzer says shaming a bully isn’t about silencing him, it’s about making it clear that he’s crossed a boundary. Is calling out bullies a form of bullying itself? Or is publicly calling out one’s tormentors a healthy catharsis for everyone involved, the bully included? That’s a question worth asking as millions share and discuss […]
Marriage certainly has its problems but as they say about Democracy, it sure beats the alternatives, according to author Lisa Levey. Matt Richtel’s Sept. 28th New York Times article “Till Death, or 20 Years, Do Us Part” explores the question of whether marriage in its current form has become obsolete. Given the reality that nearly […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. The Myth of Male Decline by Stephanie Coontz of The New York Times says reports of a matriarchy are exaggerated. In many arenas, the progress of women has stalled. 2. The Mockery Feminists by Katie […]
