This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. When Your (Brown) Body Is A (White) Wonderland by Tressie McMillan Cottom of Tressiemc.com discusses Miley Cyrus’s Video Music Awards performance and the objectification of female black bodies. 2. The Feminist Bean Counters Are Back […]
In her quest to swing a big dick, Miley Cyrus made other women the objects, says Emily Heist Moss. On Sunday, Miley Cyrus wracked up all the headlines a fame-pursuant 20-year-old could ever dream of with an epically awful performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Her segment has already been picked apart from one […]
There is something daunting about publicly claiming an achievement, parenthood, that isn’t actually yours yet, says mom-to-be Dana Norris. I’m five months pregnant. My uterus has grown to the point that anyone who looks at me can tell that I am with child. I’ve told everyone that I see in person on a regular basis […]
Chelsea Cristene discusses the results of OKCupid’s recent research into its users, and she found that she’s nothing like the other women in her demographic. Every once in a while, I experience a moment of cultural awareness so powerful that I can do nothing else but write about it. My latest epiphany came last week […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Man Creates Very First Website For Women Ever by Amanda Hess of Slate.com reports on Bryan Goldberg’s new website for women, which ridiculously claims to be the first of its kind. 2. No One, Male […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. What If I Regret Not Having Kids? by Peggy Drexler of The Daily Beast says: As the debate rages on about the merits of the childfree life, is the fear of future regret a valid […]
Soraya Chemaly says men don’t understand how often women are forced to think about sexual assault every single day. It has become obvious to me that most men don’t realize that virtually every woman on the planet thinks about rape and avoiding rape regularly. Like every day. Ask a woman if she thinks about rape […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. The Trolls Come Out For Amanda Berry by Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon.com says the Cleveland survivor comes out to party—and makes some people might angry. 2. So Your Boss Called You A ‘Slutbag’ by […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Why Men Need Women by Adam Grant of The New York Times says the mere presence of female family members—even infants—can be enough to nudge men toward being generous, studies show. 2. A Kid Is […]
Dana Norris is the founder of Story Club. She once went on 71 internet dates. I sign up for speed dating because it makes me incredibly nervous. Talk to a bunch of strange men for two hours while they judge you? Sounds like a form of punishment. But I’m getting too comfortable spending most evenings […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. It’s Time For An End To ‘Women’s Stories’ by Anna North of Salon.com says the never-ending parade of features about college hookup culture and other ‘women’s topics’ is hurting everyone. 2. The New York Times […]
When feminists attack each other personally, they waste time and energy fighting people with whom they are 95% ideologically aligned, rather than focusing on the real, shared work of feminism, says Laurel Hermanson. Sometimes I envision countless men, and possibly women, surfing the Internet, rubbing their hands together, and muttering, The feminists are arguing again. […]
