In her quest to swing a big dick, Miley Cyrus made other women the objects, says Emily Heist Moss. On Sunday, Miley Cyrus wracked up all the headlines a fame-pursuant 20-year-old could ever dream of with an epically awful performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Her segment has already been picked apart from one […]
There is something daunting about publicly claiming an achievement, parenthood, that isn’t actually yours yet, says mom-to-be Dana Norris. I’m five months pregnant. My uterus has grown to the point that anyone who looks at me can tell that I am with child. I’ve told everyone that I see in person on a regular basis […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. “Give us a kiss,” said the man serving me coffee. He wasn’t talking to me, but it was just as—if not more—inappropriate. Rather, he was talking to my daughter Violet. It’s not the first time. In the last two months, two other relative strangers—a […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. Being beautiful is all about having the right attitude! It’s not about how you look, it’s about how you feel. Smile! When you look happy, you look beautiful! Beauty is a state of mind. Statements about beauty as an attitude are so popular, a […]
Chelsea Cristene discusses the results of OKCupid’s recent research into its users, and she found that she’s nothing like the other women in her demographic. Every once in a while, I experience a moment of cultural awareness so powerful that I can do nothing else but write about it. My latest epiphany came last week […]
The granddaughter of a famous televangelist shares how she lost her religion, but kept her faith. The fundamental problem with faith and sexuality is religion. Religion, as a subset of culture, generally aims to control and objectify women. I would know. I am a woman whose upbringing provided a front row seat to the world’s […]
Laurel Hermanson spent much of her life trying to cover up how she really looked in an effort just to fit in. And though she spent lots of time on her looks, that doesn’t make her vain. I was 5 years old, playing with friends on a blazing summer day in upstate New York. We […]
This originally appeared on Dear Me. Republished here with permission. Women are 50% of the world. Half. And yet so often, they are othered, which means that women are treated as outsiders, as the deviation from the norm (the norm being men in this case). This sounds like a terrible thing, and one we’d all […]
This originally appeared on Journey Of Love. Republished here with permission. By now most have read or at least caught wind of Judith Warner’s New York Times Magazine article The Opt-Out Generation Wants Back In. The article centers on stories of affluent women who left high-powered jobs during the so-called Opt-Out Revolution, to become stay-at-home […]
The author is tired of being told that she should be flattered by the unwelcome catcalls she receives from random men on the street. Before I went to study in the States, my parents and grandparents wanted to cut all my hair off. They wanted me in an old-fashioned bob. Their reason? So I would not […]
Declaring that “strong is the new skinny” is simply replacing one unattainable body obsession with another. There’s a promotional email in my inbox offering a “Get-skinny playlist.” Sigh. This again? There’s an endless scrolling wall of “thinspo”—short for “thinspiration”—on Pinterest, drowning out the foodies and crafters. There’s the story of my friend who, days before […]
Soraya Chemaly says men don’t understand how often women are forced to think about sexual assault every single day. It has become obvious to me that most men don’t realize that virtually every woman on the planet thinks about rape and avoiding rape regularly. Like every day. Ask a woman if she thinks about rape […]
