Last week, to considerable fanfare, the FBI announced it was updating and expanding its antiquated definition of rape. Though rape is generally punished by criminal statutes in individual states, the feds are in charge of gathering crime data based upon a working definition of what constitutes a particular crime. Last updated in 1929, the FBI’s […]
This article originally appeared on The Princess Free Zone. Republished here with permission. Right on the heels of Disney’s controversial introduction of their pre-k princess, Sofia, comes another disappointing piece of news on the gender front from Lego Land. Posted in Bloomberg Businessweek online, the article “Lego Is For Girls” announced the addition of a […]
Google the words “cougar sexist” and you’ll pull up enough opinions to keep you busy for quite a while. On one side are women like Kim Cattrall. She is so offended by the term that she refused to pose with a real cougar for a magazine targeting women over 40. The magazine responded by dropping […]
This article originally appeared on CNN Opinion. Republished here with permission. Why is having an affair worse than being a sexual harasser? Why does a woman’s claim that she had a 13-year extramarital romance with Herman Cain seem to be more deadly to his Republican presidential campaign than accusations by several other women that he […]
It’s been weeks since the Penn State child molestation scandal broke and most of my fellow alums are ready to move on. They’re done condemning the riot and commending the candlelight vigil, finished with the Facebook trolling and the self-congratulatory donations to RAINN. They flip the dial when NPR moves from Egypt to Happy Valley, […]
