Why is feminism as a movement microscopically fine-tuning its lens on hashtags when the problems faced by most women globally are visible to the naked eye? In last week’s issue of The Nation, Michelle Goldberg called attention to a trend that will certainly resonate with anybody who’s ever been involved in the feminist blogosphere/Twitterverse: “Feminism’s […]
More and more Millennials are entering open relationships. Minna Salami discusses their resistance to the traditional one-on-one. If you are 30 or over, a non-monogamous (open, polyamorous, polygamy, etc.) relationship might be a relationship type that you or your friends have considered but not tried. People in your immediate circle are likely to be in […]
Viewing any variety of crap television is about the confirmation that the day I just untied myself from doesn’t suck nearly as bad as what’s going down on some of these shows. On January 22, The Onion posted a pretty funny spoof article titled “Woman Takes Short Half-Hour Break From Being Feminist To Enjoy TV […]
Considering the platform Lena Dunham has to make positive statements about women, couldn’t she, at the very least, write one female character we might actually like? (Spoiler alert! This discusses details from the most recent episode.) I’ll admit that when the show Girls premiered on HBO, I wasn’t a huge fan. All the awkward, grunting […]
Loving an alpha male can make you vulnerable in a way you may not have been in a long while, says Samantha Eyler. In response to a piece last week by Kasey Edwards here on Role/Reboot about the dangers of being attracted to an alpha male, I have to admit something a bit unpleasant about […]
Tina Fey, Cate Blanchett, and Meryl Streep have already given the proverbial finger to Hollywood’s sexism this award season. Here are a few ways other stars can follow in their footsteps. As a fitting end to a year during which one Hollywood star after another proclaimed her devotion to feminism (see here, here, here, and […]
Feminism brought freedom to women, but with that came certain vulnerabilities. It’s time for feminists to address those, says Samantha Eyler. Last week in the Atlantic’s latest installment of its Women in Poverty: An American Crisis series, Emma Green drew attention to a Wall Street Journal editorial where yet another neoconservative attempted to get the […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. Last fall, I read that Princess Diana’s step grandmother Barbara Cartland had penned over 600 romance novels before she died in 2000. And now 57 of her unpublished manuscripts are being released as ebooks. But before we clear our schedules to reacquaint ourselves with […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. Dear Santa, What I want for Christmas is for people to stop objectifying my daughter. But after I took my 4-year-old daughter Violet to visit you last week, it seems that even YOU can’t deliver on this particular request. You may recall that we […]
Need a last-minute gift that fights gender stereotypes and racial oppression? Khadijah Costley White offers 20 awesome ideas. As we face the last gift-buying weekend before Christmas, I’m sure many a procrastinating feminist is wondering what to buy that little girl (or boy) in their lives. While most feminist gift lists focus on toys that […]
It was a big year in gender. Emily Heist Moss recounts the five stories that had everyone talking the most. Let’s say you’ve been living in a cave for the last year and, having emerged, your first priority is not a hot bath or a family reunion, but a burning desire to know anything and […]
This originally appeared on AimeePerkins.com. Republished here with permission. I was sitting in a pub with two fellow students from my grad program, both of whom are in their early 20’s, one male and one female. Our conversation meandered in the way they do when there’s beer on the table and I found myself saying, […]
