This originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. Women can be funny. Why is this obvious fact still controversial? We’re at the beginning of what’s looking like a new age of female comedy. A brigade of female comics—women like Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Sasheer Zamata, and the great Tina Fey—has stormed the cultural landscape. […]
Think pot is just for tree-hugging hippies and deadbeat stoners? Think again. Even before the tests came back, I knew it was lupus. I’d been meeting the textbook and Internet criteria for months. In sunlight, my exposed skin broke out into pink and painful sores. Nausea and stomach cramps made even the thought of food […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Sheryl Sandberg’s Latest Project: Make Pictures Less Sexist by Amanda Marcotte of Slate says Sandberg’s organization is partnering with Getty images to create a special stock-image file that manages to evade a lot of the […]
Pubic hair is a reminder that we are mature, sexual beings able to create and bear life. The way it’s groomed is irrelevant and a matter of taste. There’s a painting in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris called L’Origine du Monde by Gustave Corbet. That’s a link to it, but you shouldn’t click on it […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. The Uneasy Ambiguity Of The Woody Allen Case by Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon says social media quickly takes sides, but it’s the doubt that’s the hard part. 2. A Bold Notion For Baby Showers […]
Viewing any variety of crap television is about the confirmation that the day I just untied myself from doesn’t suck nearly as bad as what’s going down on some of these shows. On January 22, The Onion posted a pretty funny spoof article titled “Woman Takes Short Half-Hour Break From Being Feminist To Enjoy TV […]
Considering the platform Lena Dunham has to make positive statements about women, couldn’t she, at the very least, write one female character we might actually like? (Spoiler alert! This discusses details from the most recent episode.) I’ll admit that when the show Girls premiered on HBO, I wasn’t a huge fan. All the awkward, grunting […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. 4 Reasons America Is Afraid Of Women With Friends by Soraya Chemaly of Salon says Wendy Davis is just the beginning—women who band together with other women threaten the status quo. 2. Obama Warms Up […]
Tina Fey, Cate Blanchett, and Meryl Streep have already given the proverbial finger to Hollywood’s sexism this award season. Here are a few ways other stars can follow in their footsteps. As a fitting end to a year during which one Hollywood star after another proclaimed her devotion to feminism (see here, here, here, and […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. 6 Reasons Female Nudity Can Be Powerful by Soraya Chemaly of Salon says: A reporter’s question about Lena Dunham’s nudity pointed to a bigger issue: Naked women can threaten the status quo. 2. 2014: The […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. Last fall, I read that Princess Diana’s step grandmother Barbara Cartland had penned over 600 romance novels before she died in 2000. And now 57 of her unpublished manuscripts are being released as ebooks. But before we clear our schedules to reacquaint ourselves with […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. How Can We Help Men? By Helping Women by Stephanie Coontz of The New York Times says the most urgent issue facing working Americans today is not the glass ceiling. It is the sinking floor. […]
