Lynn Beisner offers her take on Mitt Romney’s ridiculous “binders full of women” comment in last night’s debate. Affirmative action has an unlikely new advocate: Mitt Romney. Granted, I am not sure that he realized he was advocating for affirmative action during last night’s debate, but he did a better job than most professors of […]
Over time, priorities change and schedules fill up, so friendships have to shift accordingly. I’ve been told many times that my relationships with my female friends will change as I go through life. The first time I heard this was when I was in high school, getting ready to move on to college, and I […]
Emily Heist Moss discusses the “12 Year Old Sluts” Facebook page, becoming a woman in the digital age, and the need to feel desired and respected simultaneously. Last week, I worked myself into a giant, gnarled, spiny tumbleweed of outrage, ranting and raving my way across the Internet and into my social life. The subject […]
Who says a woman’s sex drive slows down after 60? In 2002, my mother was 61 years old and fresh off her second divorce. She wanted to begin dating again, but as a busy gynecologist and obstetrician, she didn’t even know where to start. It was her cousin who told her about online dating, but […]
Unless you truly find joy in wearing makeup, Emily Heist Moss says: to hell with all the truth-covering face paint. Let me tell you some facts about my face. My eyelashes are not long enough. My cheeks are not pink enough. My lips are not shiny enough. My skin doesn’t subtly shimmer; it is not […]
Many people praise the power of sports for their potential to increase a young girl’s sense of self-worth and ability to avoid sexual pitfalls, but there are always outliers. I was driving the other day thinking about the power of sports to embolden young women to understand their bodies, feel ownership and control over them, […]
Chanel Dubofsky responds to a recent Daily Beast article which points to the desire for perfectionism as the cause of what’s holding American women back. I thought I would write a different piece in response to Deborah Spar’s Daily Beast article, “Why Women Should Stop Wanting to be Perfect,” in which she cites American women’s […]
This originally appeared on Fem2.0. Republished here with permission. Last weekend I was at the gym, waiting for a fellow male bodybuilder to get off the pull-up bars. Yours truly can do about 7-10 wide grip pullups unassisted of which she’s very proud, and that Saturday was a heavy back day. While I’m waiting, another […]
The author offers advice to other single women with children, including how to spend your time on work trips, the best times of day to date, the types of men to avoid, and the kinds of friends to keep close. I offer this list not as an absolute. I don’t profess to have any expertise. […]
This originally appeared on Huffington Post and has been republished with permission. Sometimes I think letting myself be ugly is one of my biggest accomplishments. Which makes it sound like I will most likely not go on to win the Nobel Prize at anything (hey, it remains to be seen—you never know). As a kid, I thought that I […]
Today’s top female characters on television have restored Emily Heist Moss’ faith in being a 21st century woman. Between the crotch-shot sharing ladies of Jersey Shore, the squabbling botox bunch of Real Housewives, the konstantly konniving Kardashians, Big Ang, Honey Boo Boo, dance moms and toddlers twirling in tiaras, you might come to the conclusion […]
Originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. The First Lady and Secretary Rice show us what’s possible for black women and girls. For the first time, both the RNC and the DNC had black women as primetime speakers during their respective conventions—former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the RNC and First Lady Michelle […]
