Juliet Kelso dissects a YouTube video that begs the question: Can men and women ever be equal if women aren’t allowed to take their tops off in public? The popular YouTube video titled “Why Men and Women Can Never Be Equal” involves a man and a woman mimicking one another on the metro. They are […]
The cliche of men ignoring their rambling wives on the phone isn’t just tired, it’s disrespectful to both men and women. So why is an old commercial depicting just that getting so much recent attention online? The world of Reddit tends to draw witty, connected, a tad nerdy, and generally tasteful individuals to its tomes […]
Hugo Schwyzer compares the attacks made on him because of his controversial past and those recently made on Anita Sarkeesian, a feminist blogger, and asserts that women have it worse online. Lest there be any doubt that the Internet remains a much more hostile place for women than men, consider what’s been happening lately to […]
This originally appeared The Good Men Project. Republished here with permission. What coming out stories share in common. When I launched WhenICameOut.com, all I knew was that a repository of short coming out stories needed to exist somewhere—a way to get a snapshot of the good, bad, and ugly of the coming out process. I […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Study: After Giving Birth, New Moms Spend More Time on Facebook by Hans Villarica of The Atlantic says a small, exploratory study suggests that social media may be a new way for parents to get […]
This was originally published at In Our Words: A Salon For Queers & Co. Republished here with permission. Dana Norris once went on 71 Internet dates. This is date no. 17 (we posted no. 16 here). John’s Match.com profile picture shows a man with large brown eyes and a receding hairline. Other pictures show that […]
This was originally published at In Our Words: A Salon For Queers & Co. Republished here with permission. Dana Norris once went on 71 Internet dates. This is date no. 16 (we posted no. 15 here). I wake up. There’s a tall man in my bed next to me. Crap. With all of Benji’s twitching […]
This originally appeared on Undercover In The Suburbs. Republished here with permission. This is my response to this post entitled 10 Things Guys Should Do On a First Date that my brother brought to my attention. I want to publicly say that this post and the millions of posts like it on the Internet, written by both […]
This was originally published at In Our Words: A Salon For Queers & Co. Republished here with permission. Dana Norris once went on 71 internet dates. This was date number 15 (we posted date number 14 here). I’d like to take a moment to ask everyone who is my parents/ever held me as a baby to […]
Sex work is hard work, and sometimes even sex workers need a break. Clarisse Thorn spoke to Olivia, a 25-year-old sex worker, about the perils of her profession. Previously on Role/Reboot, we ran an interview with my friend Olivia, a 25-year-old graduate student who had just started having sex for money through a “sugar baby” website called […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. More Men Enter Fields Dominated By Women by Shaila Dewan and Robert Gebeloff of The New York Times says that more and more men are starting to see the benefits of jobs long-dominated by women. […]
This was originally published at In Our Words: A Salon For Queers & Co. Republished here with permission. Dana Norris once went on 71 internet dates. This was date number 14 (we posted date number 13 here). My third date with Benji is on my 30th birthday. He calls me in the morning, sings me “Happy […]
