Laurel Hermanson discusses why we should all still care when a celebrity comes out, even if they don’t come out “all the way.” Just kidding; this isn’t an open letter. Open letters are usually written to criticize public figures for behaving in a manner the writer feels was inappropriate because it doesn’t align with his […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. How Can We Jump-Start The Struggle For Gender Equality by Philip N. Cohen of The New York Times says to speed up a slowing move to equality, men will need to move into professions that […]
Women in the kitchen. Men watching football. Even a family with lesbian moms isn’t immune to a traditional division of holiday labor. It’s Thanksgiving 2012 a couple hours north of San Francisco, and it’s cold enough outside to see your breath. In my car, I have both the heat and radio blasting as I wind […]
When I took Plan B, I was over 176 pounds and I thought I was protecting myself with the best available option. How many millions of women have done the same? On Monday, Mother Jones broke the news that the European manufacturer of a pill identical to Plan B (an over-the-counter emergency contraceptive sold in America) has revealed […]
These photos of our friends publicly showing their own faces/bodies may be helping take the steam out of the capitalist beauty machine, says Samantha Eyler. “Men and women of my FB friends list: I’m reading quite a lot of stuff these days about people who post selfies being narcissistic or vain. You know what? Bugger […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. A Cold War Fought By Women by John Tierney of The New York Times asks: How aggressive is the human female? 2. Does Hookup Culture Hurt Women? by Peggy Drexler of The Daily Beast says […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Standing Up For The Rights Of New Fathers by Tara Siegel Bernard of The New York Times says more workers are filing legal actions against their employers to gain paid parental leave for the birth […]
I believe that you can win a football game without being racist, sexist, and homophobic. I believe that you can be great without demeaning and subjugating others. But we all have to believe that. Sports are a hot mess right now. In the last three months, we’ve seen at least two incidents of a white […]
Gender equality will remain stalled until men and women are afforded the same rights to paid leave, says Soraya Chemaly. Josh Levs would like to stay home to care for his third child, a newborn daughter. As he explains in a Tumblr post, “I have only two choices: Stay out for 10 weeks without pay, […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Paternity Leave by Anna March of The Weeklings says the burden of pregnancy will never be fair. Child support can be—but men need to have a chance to opt out. 2. The Upside Of Infidelity […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Can Older Women ‘Have It All’ Too? by Amanda Hess of Slate.com discusses how longer lives will affect sexism. 2. Female Competition Isn’t Automatically ‘Mean’ by Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon says a new study […]
White privilege means getting to be black one day of the year. But we are black always, says Khadijah Costley White. This week’s internet meme is Racism: The Halloween Edition. All over the Web, people have been posting photos of folks doing insanely offensive racial mimicry or mockery. Clearly, no one’s seen this new poster […]
