Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana, I’m choking on rage. I can’t turn on the news or even check social media without seeing […]
We don’t have to sink to their depths. If we did, we’d lose what sets us apart. But it’s time to recognize that no wars have ever been won with civility. A case that pit the freedom of speech of anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers against the rights of patients to be fully informed about their […]
It’s one thing to decline to bake cakes for a holiday you disapprove of and another thing entirely to refuse to serve a class of people because of their sexual orientation. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Colorado bakery owner who refused to bake wedding cakes for gay couples. Happy Pride month? The […]
When someone who has hurt you is no longer in the position to do so again, it is natural to be happy. Requiring decorum of his victims is adding insult to the injuries that he has inflicted. Everybody in our house knew the exact minute when I read that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had died. […]
According to Justice Kennedy, folks have two choices: Get married or sentence yourself to a lifetime of wretchedness. In American politics, the married heterosexual couple with children has been the gold standard of normalcy and virtue. They’re the people politicians address in their speeches, the ones they vow to fight for. If you exist outside […]
Winning the argument on same-sex marriage would bring us one step closer to unveiling the whole truth: that opposite-sex marriage is, in fact, the emperor with no clothes, neither ensuring the existence or economic stability of two-parent homes. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments for and against the legal protection of same-sex marriage. During the […]
I will never apologize for doing what is right for my body. Well, maybe there’s one wrong way, I thought, inspecting my surrogate little sister’s half-used pill pack, every second or third pouch punched out like answers on a Scantron sheet. “These aren’t like Advil, babe,” I told her. “In order for them to work, […]
The morning-after pill is not an abortion pill. It always comes down to control. Rape. Civil Rights. Women’s Rights. Margaret Sanger coined the phrase “birth control” in the early 1900’s. Sanger was a nurse who worked with the poor on the lower east side of New York and was well acquainted with the effects unplanned pregnancies had […]
Today’s decision is wrong factually, legally, and practically, says Kate McGuinness. By a vote of 5 to 4, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision struck a blow against women’s health and reproductive freedom. The conservative majority of the court ruled that the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employer-provided health insurance include contraceptive care for […]
Women are taught that being liked and respected are mutually exclusive, and it’s always better to be liked. The truth is: Being liked is overrated. Last week, I sent my mother an article announcing the new documentary Anita, about Anita Hill, a law professor who testified in 1991 that she had been sexually harassed by then-Supreme […]
