Hugo Schwyzer says that while the three men who took bullets for their girlfriends in the Aurora, Colo., shootings are definitely deserving of recognition, more women have died for men throughout history. Twenty-eight years ago this week, I sat mesmerized in a Monterey movie theater, watching Prince’s Purple Rain. Though almost every song in the […]
Juliet Kelso breaks down the results of a new CDC study that looks at American women and pregnancy trends. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics just published its findings based on contextualized data from the 2011 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). The study, titled “Intended and Unintended Births […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Do American Women Need Guns? Self-Defense Pro Paxton Quigley Says Yes by Abigail Pesta of The Daily Beast says that as the debate over gun control rages in the wake of the Colorado shootings, one […]
Sally Ride may have been the first American woman in space, but everyone can find inspiration from her story, not just young girls. Earlier this week, the first woman to go to space, Sally Ride, died from pancreatic cancer. I thought a lot about her death as I wandered around the Global Village at the […]
The recent Penn State sanctions remind Lynn Beisner of conversations with conservatives and their frequent inability to acknowledge their ancestors’ privilege, she says. I am forever looking for a way to understand conservatives. I want to see past the bluster and seemingly willful ignorance, to see them as hurting human beings and have compassion for […]
Hugo Schwyzer says white male privilege is partly to blame for both the location and the scale of the recent Aurora, Colorado movie theater murders. Are white men particularly prone to carrying out the all-too-familiar mass killings of which last week’s Aurora shooting is just the latest iteration? Is there something about the white, male, […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. When Parents Hover and Kids Don’t Grow Up in the Room for Debate section of The New York Times asks if “helicopter parenting” is starting to crash and burn. 2.
No one is immune to sexually transmitted infections, and as certain strains strengthen, people need to get smarter about their sexual habits. Hey, you know what word should never have “super” in front of it? “Gonorrhea.” But super-gonorrhea is here. It’s far scarier than our former adversary, and it’s a serious threat, emerging from Japan […]
Melissa Byrne is happy to see a woman in charge at a Fortune 500 company, but does not agree with Marissa Mayer’s support of Wal-Mart, which she says is known for exploiting its workers. I think its is easy for us to agree, especially those who identify as female, that it is still hard to […]
Nancy L. Cohen explains the importance of the recent launch of a new lesbian PAC. A new Lesbian PAC (LPAC) opened for business last week with the goal of having impact on the 2012 election. Why does it matter? Mitt Romney is petrified that the anti-woman and anti-gay extremists who’ve hijacked the GOP are going […]
Chanel Dubofsky says enough with the “enoughness” questions surrounding gender roles. The New York Times Room for Debate topic this past week invited folks to weigh in on the question of “Are Modern Men Manly Enough,” and frankly, I can’t believe we’re still asking this. The concept of evolving gender roles remains so threatening that […]
In response to The New York Times “Are Modern Men Manly Enough,” Abigail Collazo asserts that rather than debating what a “real man” or woman looks like, we should focus on just being better people instead. This weekend’s New York Times “Room for Debate” asks whether today’s men are “manly enough”: “A-list actors are getting facials in […]
