This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. When Men Stop Seeking Beauty And Women Care Less About Wealth by Maia Szalavitz of Time magazine says as gender equality rises in any given society, men focus less on seeking mates with youth and […]
Disturbed by this week’s news on the unchanged wage gap, Kate McGuinness offers advice on how to negotiate for better pay. On Wednesday, the U.S. Census Bureau released data for 2011 showing that the gender wage gap remains unchanged from 2010. For every dollar a man earns working full time, a woman working full time […]
Emily Heist Moss says understanding how broad and beautiful and strange and complicated a “family” can be is the true definition of “pro-family.” How to define a family: I have two parents and one brother. I also have two step-parents. I have one grandmother, one godfather, two aunts, three uncles, and cousins—step-cousins, half-cousins, second cousins—numbering in […]
Therapist Lyla Cicero recently met with an 18-year-old client who is pregnant. She is pro-life, but getting an abortion. Cicero shares her story, and why choosing not to have the child is truly better for everyone. When I hear folks saying they are pro-life, I wonder for whom, and under what circumstances. You see, being […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. How Reading Cosmo Affects Perceptions Of Sex by Lindsay Abrams of The Atlantic asks: Does “advice on packing in pleasure when doing the deed full speed” actually influence our overall perspective? 2. Who Wears The […]
In light of Mark Sanford’s announced plans to marry his longtime mistress, Hugo Schwyzer asks: Is it wrong to rejoice in their union? Cheaters never prosper, the saying goes. But what happens when they do? Should we rejoice with them? Those old questions are worth asking again with the news that former South Carolina governor […]
Regardless of why so many conservative organizations—such as Fox News—hire attractive women who may be unqualified for their positions, calling them “dumb” makes us bullies, Lynn Beisner says. Several months ago, the chair of the academic department I work in invited me out for coffee. If the invitation itself hadn’t tipped me off that this […]
Ann Romney’s speech at the Republican National Convention left Lynn Beisner more angry than inspired. Here’s why. This morning, I woke with the realization that I don’t like Ann Romney. I know that we were all supposed to be impressed as hell by her speech a couple of nights ago, but she lost me at […]
Kate McGuinness discusses the root of what would become casualties of a Republican President: women’s rights. Conceding the notion of a GOP war on women is true, Margaret Hoover, great granddaughter of the late President and Republican activist asks, “What has happened within the party infrastructure that has malfunctioned so desperately, so that this minority […]
Vince Skolny takes a closer look at the idiotic rape comments made by Pennsylvania Senate candidate Tom Smith earlier this week, which have added another nail to the self-made GOP coffin. If you have been to a wedding, you’ve likely heard the question: Who gives this woman to this man? It is so steeped in […]
Does staying in a marriage for your partner’s healthcare benefits mean you’re using your partner? Or are you giving up your soul just to stay healthy? My friend Laurie got married a couple of months ago. I did not send her a present or even a card. In fact, the only thing I gave her […]
Khadijah White wants to know: If Romney/Ryan took office this November, what else will victims of rape and incest have to endure? In case you’ve somehow missed it, during an interview several days ago on a local political news show in St. Louis, Congressmen Todd Akin (who, ironically, is running against one of only 17 […]
