It may be the only way to get them to listen. With so many conversations about sexual harassment and abuse taking place in public and in private, it can get exhausting for feminists to have to re-articulate the same points over and over. In such conversations, those who are fearful of the wave of #MeToo […]
While there’s room at a women’s convention for people of every gender, that room isn’t at the top. Senator Bernie Sanders will be headlining the Women’s Convention in Detroit later this month, convention organizers announced this morning. And no, I’m not kidding. The convention, which is the first Women’s Convention to be held in more […]
In today’s middle-class American household, men have just as much to lose in policies that affect family life as women do. Recently, a member of my online mothers’ group posted that she had sent my husband, Jason, a friend request on Facebook. I smiled. Our group of 200—the number our brilliant, business-minded administrator cited as […]
In a culture where a woman’s worth has been constructed through the male gaze of desire, where female credibility is constantly questioned, where self-defense gets you incarcerated or worse, it’s really no surprise that women may only come to feminism on a road paved by men. The Internet erupted this week when a two-month-old Tumblr […]
As my boys approach adulthood and start relationships of their own with women outside our house, I’m more keenly aware of what they learn both here and outside these walls. And sadly, it’s not as simple as letting them choose the pink shirt over the blue one. I wasn’t raised by a proclaimed feminist, and […]
