Ask someone on the street, any old person will do. What does a feminist look like? Here’s my guess about what someone might say. 1. Hairy armpits 2. Aggressive 3. Liberal 4. Hates men In fact, so many women identify with this wacky version of feminism, that they’re unsure that they actually are a modern [...]
July 20, 2012
(Image: Barry Gutierrez / AP/msnbc) Let’s imagine the horrific scene of the Aurora Colorado midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises.” You’re sitting in an open theater and someone begins shooting at you. You are now an open target for a crazed maniac with an automatic weapon. Let them call it what they want — Rep. Louie [...]
July 20, 2012
I wouldn’t say that I was gung-ho when my ex-husband told me he was going to sign our son up for the Boy Scouts in 2010. I had heard about their stringent anti-gay policy and didn’t want my child (or myself for that matter) to participate in any club that would exclude openly gay boys [...]
June 28, 2012
Hayley and I wanted to open up the “having it all” discussion, even though every time we say it or write it, we can’t help but think of Whitney Houston’s, “Didn’t we almost have it all?” (Okay, that’s not entirely true, but slightly…) Miri: I thought a lot this weekend about the notion of women [...]
June 20, 2012
What do we think when we think about feminism? Elizabeth Wurtzel asks–and answers–this question in the recent Atlantic Monthly, but more specifically she goes for the wealthy few, arguing that wealthy women who choose to stay at home with their children are not feminists, but worse, are creating a war on women and even worse, [...]
June 13, 2012
Jezebel editor in chief, Jessica Coen, wrote a great opinion piece yesterday about how she felt jaded by the blatant sexist, misogyny found all over the internet. You Tube, Facebook, and yes, folks, even right here on our blog. Some of the spam we get from this article is particularly gross. Jessica was writing in [...]
June 4, 2012
*Even though aborting a fetus because of gender reasons really makes me sick, it’s none of my business as to why someone decides to get an abortion. And it shouldn’t be your business either (which is why the Pre-Natal Gender Act didn’t pass). Double X writer Allison Benedikt writes about why pro-Choicers should be OK [...]
May 16, 2012
Consider this a warning to all ya attachment parents, I was the woman on the cover of Time, in her skinny jeans, pert breast popping out of her tank top, future linebacker nursing on that pert breast… okay, I was never nearly as cute, but I nursed one kid until she was two and hiding [...]
May 14, 2012
Yes, that’s what I was thinking when I first saw it a few days ago. So much so that I could barely get myself to write a post about it, let alone discuss it with everyone on the planet who seems to be talking about it. Which is the point of this cover, no? To [...]
May 9, 2012
The afternoon before the prom there was a flutter of activity. I sensed the excitement from my office, knowing the prom was the source, I dug harder into my work. I would not be corrupted. Right about then, my daughter burst in, she’d accompanied an older girlfriend to a tanning salon! A tanning salon?!? [...]
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