“What are you going to do when Heloise is old enough to Google your name?” I’ve been asked that question at least a dozen times in the past month, as the controversy around my pre-sobriety past has grown into a moderately noticeable kerfuffle in the blogosphere. I’ve written several times—and at several different sites—about my […]
At the beginning of each year, most of us consider changes we would like to make in our personal lives. I decided to bypass the usual weight and fitness resolutions and focus on institutions I’d like to change. The list is long, but I have prioritized mass-market advertisements because they are pervasive and have the […]
This originally appeared at MoxieMag.com. Republished here with permission. I’ve always been fat. I’m not one of those fat girls who has stories about when I was thin—because I was never thin. And I grew up with the knowledge that I was fat. When I was three years old I was playing outside with my […]
A lot has been written about the dangers of overexposing children to media, specifically television. Once a mantra echoed predominantly among the upper middle class, these days it seems the majority of Americans know that too much screen time can have ill effects. Whether and how folks heed that warning in their daily lives is, […]
This article originally appeared on The Good Men Project. Republished here with permission. Sarah Buttenwieser reminds us that you don’t have to purchase gender at the clothing or toy store–or as seen on TV. Practically from the moment I let anyone know I was pregnant with my first child—now 16—the very first question seemed to […]
This article originally appeared on The Princess Free Zone. Republished here with permission. Right on the heels of Disney’s controversial introduction of their pre-k princess, Sofia, comes another disappointing piece of news on the gender front from Lego Land. Posted in Bloomberg Businessweek online, the article “Lego Is For Girls” announced the addition of a […]
Role/Reboot regular contributor Hugo Schwyzer is a male feminist writer and professor of gender studies living in Los Angeles; he’s also the Sex + Relationships editor at The Good Men Project. He has an extremely controversial history that includes four marriages, substance abuse, and sexual behavior that he has since described as compulsive and destructive until […]
This article originally appeared on TOR.com. Republished here with permission. Harvard has a series of Implicit Association Tests for anyone to try online. One of these tests is there to determine how you associate gender and science. To start, you are asked what your opinion is on those topics. Are men better at it, or […]
I recently found out one of my best childhood friends is having a baby. I’m getting ridiculously excited about meeting this kid and getting to be an “auntie.” I’m also starting to wonder what this child (whose sex is still unknown) will be like, what she will play with, what toys I will bring back […]
Google the words “cougar sexist” and you’ll pull up enough opinions to keep you busy for quite a while. On one side are women like Kim Cattrall. She is so offended by the term that she refused to pose with a real cougar for a magazine targeting women over 40. The magazine responded by dropping […]
I have to confess: I’m not a big boxing fan. My knowledge of the sport amounts to one full match I saw on TV and amazement over the fact that my Mom used to practice it as a kid. I was basically of the opinion that because I’m not a fan of huge gloves and […]
Fuck Yeah! Ryan Gosling grows up and discovers his feminist side. Hey Girl, if I told you that you had a hot body, would you hold it against me? Now what if I was Ryan Gosling, and asked you the same question? Maybe I could throw in some feminist theory and assure you that all […]
