In response to North Carolina’s vote yesterday to define marriage as between “one man and one woman,” Lyla Cicero sends a message of support to all the queer kids of the state and the rest of the country, comparing the decision to a form of bullying. This letter is to all the queer kids, the […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Pinterest’s Gender Trouble by Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon.com says as a host of male-centered “pinning” sites arrive, can the female-centric phenomenon continue its success? 2. As Parents, Are Fathers the Second Sex? by Gary […]
There is no way to measure whose lot is harder, and it shouldn’t matter anyway. In the wake of Hilary Rosen’s comments about stay-at-home mother Ann Romney, Kate McGuinness urges women to stop letting political rhetoric interfere with solidarity. The latest skirmish in the battle for women’s votes centers on whether it’s “harder” to be […]
After Ann Romney admits that she often raised six boys, not just her five sons, Hugo Schwyzer wonders if Mitt Romney’s latest attempt to gain likeability among voters simply perpetuates the myth that men are nothing more than overgrown boys. Are we ready for a Peter Pan Presidency? Judging from one campaign ad, perhaps we […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Must Women ‘Civilize’ Men? by Joan Walsh of Salon.com says that at the root of the conservative war on contraception is a deep-seated anxiety about the traditional family. 2. Life Without Sex: The Third Phase […]
Despite his anti-feminist views, Rick Santorum has still managed to cultivate a faction of female Conservative supporters. But how? Hugo Schwyzer points to Santorum’s “soft patriarchy” as one possible answer to that question. Why do so many women love Rick Santorum, arguably the most anti-feminist major party political candidate in a generation? The New York […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Gloria Steinem, A Woman Like No Other by Sarah Hepola of The New York Times says that for more than 40 years, Gloria Steinem has been the near-singular voice of the women’s movement. Why, in […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. To Reclaim or Reject ‘Slut’? by Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com says the Limbaugh controversy is a perfect example of the complexities of reappropriating, or renouncing, the slur. 2. The Strange, Fascinating History of the Vibrator […]
Because reproduction requires both men and women, Misty McLaughlin says the War on Women is more accurately a War on People, and asks men to take responsibility for their part. In a beautiful twist on the gruesome women’s-health-as-political-theater we’ve all been subjected to lately, female legislators in two states have introduced bills to limit men’s […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. New Marriages or No Marriages? by Nancy Folbre of the Economix blog of The New York Times says that why more children are being born to unmarried mothers is a complex question involving education, income, […]
Since more than 99 percent of American women who have ever been sexually active have used birth control, Sarah Jackson urges women—and the men who support them—to speak out about having access to contraception. I just finished reading 99 Nights With the 99 Percent by journalist Chris Faraone. For his book, subtitled “Dispatches From the […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. America’s Major Magazines Still Aren’t Publishing Stories By Women by Alyssa Rosenberg of Alternet.org says that Vida, an organization devoted to women in literature, has released a survey of the articles published by women in […]
