Emily Heist Moss asks a lot of her leaders, but one thing she doesn’t demand is fidelity. She shares her thoughts on the General David Petraeus cheating scandal. A few years ago, I saw General David Petraeus speak at an event in Chicago. I remember how impressed I was with his thoughtfulness, his eloquence, and […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. A Plan To Reboot Dating by Emily Esfahani Smith of The Atlantic says a lot of women and men are dissatisfied with hook-up culture. Here’s a way to encourage an alternative. 2. The End of ‘Marriage’ […]
Sure the election is over, but Emily Heist Moss still worries that she’ll have to spend the rest of her life defending her rights. It’s over. For a while, I managed to hold it together. There was pie to eat and wine to drink and a couch to sink gratefully into. There were friends to […]
Why push for marriage reform when the institution of marriage itself only reinforces patriarchal norms, asks Jenn Leyva? On Sunday, The New York Times published an article opining that the end of marriage will be bad for women and girls. Oh, so we’re saving women and girls now. Our culture is saturated with misogyny, and […]
In a letter to her future great-grandchildren, Lynn Beisner recalls the day she and the nation made history by voting the first black President into office. To my dear great-grandchildren, I don’t know what stories have filtered down to you. I imagine they’re stories of my sometimes outrageous feistiness or of my unorthodox way of […]
Because we, as a nation, have made the wrong political choices, the Christian Right believes God is now punishing us, says Lynn Beisner. There were two things I knew for sure when I read the forecasts for Hurricane Sandy: First, my elderly dog would insist on being let outside to pee even if the winds […]
Are abortion rights and gay marriage trivial enough issues to be set aside for the sake of a friendship? Election day can’t get here soon enough. It’s not just that millions of Americans (and hundreds of millions around the world) are anxious to find out whether Barack Obama will get a second term or if […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Rape Remarks Haunt The GOP by Steve Kornacki of Salon.com says Richard Mourdock becomes the latest candidate to embarrass himself. Will it cost his party the Senate? 2. Shades of Gay by Charles M. Blow […]
No matter how angry Richard Mourdock’s recent rape comments make people, wishing him harm is never the answer. Because it’s a day of the week, another member of the GOP has said something deeply misogynistic. This time, it was Indiana U.S. Senate candidate Richard Mourdock declaring that pregnancy resulting from rape (and by extension, the […]
Lynn Beisner explains the religious—albeit ridiculous—thought process behind Richard Mourdock’s recent rape comments. Over the last couple of months, we have heard a lot from conservative men about rape. Their words have been shocking and outrageous for most people. But for me, it is nothing more than a bad family reunion. This is what I […]
Abortion is not to be taken lightly, Michelle says, but the GOP ticket stands so firmly against it because they don’t know what it’s like to have their rights taken away from them. If Paul Ryan had his way, I would now have a child in high school. Assuming that child made it to high […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Debate Moves Women To Fore In Race For The White House by Michael D. Shear of The New York Times says President Obama argued that Mitt Romney would oppose equal pay for women and block […]
