Is the recent trend of celebrities sharing their deeply personal stories an effort to shine a light on issues everyone faces? Or is it more about lining their own pockets? Emily Heist Moss says it’s both, and that’s OK. Angelina Jolie Had Breast Removal Surgery. Christine Quinn Opens Up About Her Struggles with Bulimia and […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. These days, it’s practically part of the liturgy—the moment before the wedding ceremony when the celebrant asks assembled guests to put away cameras and phones. Every time I witness the sliding of smartphones and cameras back into pockets and wedding-only beaded clutch bags, I […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Horror In Cleveland: Why The Warning Signs Went Ignored by Katie J.M. Baker of Jezebel says the willful ignorance of police and neighbors is a not-so-hyperbolic metaphor for what millions of domestic abuse survivors experience […]
When will women stop judging their lady parts? (Some parts of this article, and individual hyperlinks, are explicit, and may be considered NSFW.) There’s a lot of pressure to have a good vagina. Rapper Missy Elliott’s mysterious “Pussycat” is a ballad from a woman to her genitals. She pleads that they not “fail her now” […]
How can “boys’ club” industries, like tech, begin to create more space for the influx of women? In 2004, pregnant and waddling across the expanses of Google’s parking lot, Sheryl Sandberg realized something obvious: There should be parking spaces reserved for expectant mothers. She made the case to the CEOs and they promptly agreed and […]
By deeming Jason Collins the first openly gay athlete in a major American team sport, what is Sports Illustrated really saying? Twitter was an irksome site to visit on Monday. It wasn’t for anything that was specific to Twitter’s function as a site, but rather something that hung amid the top trending topics that was […]
Is parental oversharing on social media a cry for empathy, and for connection with other parents? What is it about kids’ crying and misbehavior that provoke such a reaction in us? It’s visceral. Whether your child is 2 weeks old or 2 years old, a child’s screams and weird behavior can rip at your inner […]
More and more women are tuning in to porn, so why is so much of it still so misogynistic? “Want to watch porn tonight?” “Yes!” We settle in, pulling up one of the many aggregator sites available for people like us, looking to find some attractive strangers we want to watch get down. Let the […]
With the amount of wedding propaganda shoved down our throats by popular culture, how can women not be obsessed with it, asks Carrie Laski. “That’s it. I’m deactivating my Facebook!” I’ve heard this declaration several times over the past year from in-real-life friends who are sick of seeing engagement notices from their online-only friends. In […]
Lynn Beisner discusses why it’s not OK to objectify men. I don’t usually have celebrity crushes, and I am not usually attracted to men on a purely visual level. One of the few celebrity crushes I have is for George Clooney. It only developed after I saw him on Inside the Actor’s Studio talking about […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. ‘Roe’ Didn’t Incite The Culture Wars, And Neither Would A Supreme Court Ruling For Marriage Equality by Jill Filipovic of The Nation says the Supreme Court Justices should ask themselves: Does history look kindly upon […]
Dana Norris went on 71 Internet dates. This was one of them. (You can find some of her previous dates in this series here, here and here.) So I go home with this guy named Patrick because he’s cute and it’s late and riding the train out to his suburban apartment seems easier than waiting for […]
