Lynn Beisner calls out author Elizabeth Wurtzel who recently proclaimed that all women who are financially supported by men are prostitutes. This week I read a wonderful article about our generation’s search for meaning by fellow Role/Reboot contributor Kerry Cohen. It spoke to me so deeply that I went out of my way to read […]
This originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Republished here with author’s permission. Kerry Cohen responds to former feminist icon Elizabeth Wurtzel’s recent New York magazine piece about never really growing up. I was 23 throughout most of 1994, and like most 23-year-olds, I was living inside the sense that I would never be OK. I […]
Hugo Schwyzer responds to former feminist icon and author Elizabeth Wurtzel’s cringe-worthy essay in New York magazine. “I don’t want to end up like that.” So tweeted my 25 year-old friend Danni in response to Elizabeth Wurtzel’s rambling, wince-inducing Sunday night essay in New York Magazine. A young feminist icon in the 1990s for her […]
From the end of the so-called Mommy Wars, to the decreasing acceptance of fat-bashing, Lynn Beisner shares what she’s looking forward to in the year ahead. Optimism is my default setting, but I find myself particularly optimistic about the new year. It seems to me that we saw some pretty great things growing in 2012 […]
Feminists aren’t supposed to let their singledom bother them during the holidays, but not everyone is immune. I never thought I would internalize all the crap out there about being a single, straight woman, but somehow this holiday season I found myself unwittingly trapped in a rom-com desperation cliche. “Meet Leah. She’s an independent woman […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Hasbro Makes An Easy-Bake Oven For Boys by Hanna Rosin of Slate.com says when some companies are called out for being small-minded or bigoted, they get even more small-minded and stupid. Others do the right thing. […]
If your young niece’s favorite colors were pink and purple, would you deny her a Christmas gift in those colors just to buck gender norms? Don’t tell my family, but of all the people on my Christmas shopping list, my 6-year-old niece and 3-year-old nephew are the most important. They’re also the most fun to […]
Much to Robert Wilder’s dismay, his high school students still see feminism as a dirty word, but is he the right person to show them otherwise? Every year about this time, I teach Hamlet to juniors in high school, and eventually we get to the scene where Ophelia drowns. I don’t know if it’s because […]
Alyssa Robinson proves that even some of today’s feminists adored pink and girly gifts when they were children. Please take a moment to stifle your gag reflexes, because I’m about to take you down gender normative lane. I’m going to take you back to the 1990s, when I was all cute and tiny, and when […]
There’s more to equality than jumping on the raunch culture bandwagon. When the far right gets hysterical about gender roles, one of their go-to paranoid delusions is the accusation that feminists are trying to turn men into women and women into men. There are extremists in any movement, to be sure, but the majority of […]
A much-needed men’s revolution will first require a re-imagining of our social structure, says Lynn Beisner. One afternoon, I was in our university’s library, struggling to read Chaucer in the original Old English. A book on a nearby shelf caught my eye, and out of curiosity and a desperation to avoid any more of the […]
This originally appeared on The American Prospect. Republished here with permission. The women’s movement isn’t the enemy of men, like Venker believes; instead, it can serve as inspiration for a new generation of men who wish to rewrite masculinity. The “war on men” article on the Fox News website, which—spoiler alert!—blames women for ruining modern men, has been snaking […]
