Enough with this sexist stereotype. The majority of my experiences with girls and women has been positive, even life affirming. In 1988, when I was in eighth grade, I contracted an eye infection and wasn’t able to wear my contact lenses. At the time, my eyeglass lenses were inches thick—just like the proverbial Coke bottles—and […]
If, indeed, we are seeing a rise of Mean Boys who will join the Mean Girls we’ve already heard so much about, what is causing this and how can we change it? When my son was 3, his preschool teacher called me aside to tell me a story. My son went to a tiny school […]
For most of my life, the story of how I became homecoming queen was a story of good overcoming evil, of the bullied taking back her power from the bullies. But in recent years, I have come to reconsider it. I spent the final two years of high school at the bottom of the popularity […]
