If women can be made to believe that our brains are biologically inferior, then we will think twice about our encroachments into a world that used to be the sole province of men. You know all the stereotypes about Guardian readers? How we’re all dope-smoking hippies or intellectual-types who spend our energy fretting and slathering […]
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 […]
We do real harm when we refer to girls as bad asses for making certain decisions, because the subtly-whispered subtext is, “You’re not supposed to be doing that. Girls don’t do that.” When enrollment suddenly and drastically dropped at my son’s preschool (long story), his class of 10 kids shrank to four: him, and three […]
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, […]
We’ve made gift-giving and celebration an obligatory pressure in an over-consumptive, materialistic, and wasteful society, says Leigh Naturkach. So she’s figured out a way to support her loved ones while still remaining true to her own values. I recently ran away from an acquaintance’s baby shower. Well, I purposely left the building a few minutes […]
For those of us who are dating for the old-fashioned reason of trying to get to know someone, a transactional approach is deeply damaging, says Emily Heist Moss. “I’ve got a pretty face and a pretty extensive Urban Spoon wish list…We all know that getting what you want in life can be tough, which is […]
Sure, girls are told, be a ghost, firefighter, or mummy. But be a sexy one. As a child, I remember time and again imagining myself as being someone or something else. During those seemingly endless hours of pretend play, I became lost in the reality of who or what I was depicting, and those times […]
Emily Heist Moss responds to Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes’ epic rant about how feminism is destroying the “natural order” of things. This essay began as a project to answer the question “Is feminism working?” but was interrupted by the arrival of Gavin McInnes’ video outburst on HuffPo Live. As someone who routinely devotes 140 characters […]
Rachel Odell Walker designed and paid for her own engagement ring, but everyone insisted on giving her fiancé the credit. The night before my 30th birthday, I was my best friend’s maid of honor at her wedding. I tackled the role with gusto—held the bouquet, posed for the pictures, and toasted her and her great husband […]
If the NFL really wants to find a way to monetize their female fan base, it will take more than a few stadium rule changes, says Kelly Siegel-Stechler. I’m a woman. A skirt-wearing, home-cooking woman. And I really, really love American football. Not in a pink jersey sort of way, either. I love the combination […]
This originally appeared on JaysonGaddis.com. Republished here with permission. Over a year ago, my 4-year-old son (3 at the time), told me he wanted to be in a boys group. It was a mind-stopper. I sat for a moment. Then my heart said, “OK, let’s do it.” A year later, it has begun. I almost […]
Justin Dilley grew up thinking a man’s place was in the garage, but now that he has his own, he’s questioning if that’s where he belongs. After years of living in the Northeast, I moved down to the south (Atlanta) and now I finally have a garage. I have arrived. There is nothing flippant about […]
