Turning the Princess Narrative Sideways
Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, blogs about her struggle with the creeping princess contagion:
...read moreWomen in Combat
There will be a longer post about this (hopefully) tomorrow, but briefly a response to this:
...read moreThe Pope and Killing Gay People
The Pope met with one of the leaders of the “Kill the Gays” bill in Uganda, and reportedly gave her a blessing. I write about it in the Guardian, and discuss how the Catholic church uses sexuality to control its followers when it feels its power is threatened:
...read moreWhy feminism is good for everybody, part 2954
Divorce rates are the lowest they’ve been since the 1970s, and marriages are more stable. There are certainly myriad reasons why marriages are stronger now than thirty years ago, but I’d imagine that chief among them are things heavily influenced by feminism. As traditional gender roles expand, women and men have greater choice in who [...]
...read moreA Different Bollywood
This movie is apparently causing quite an uproar. India has made headlines as an emerging superpower, a land of high-tech multimillionaires and a vast new market for American goods. But there is another India too, and it is not just the one of villages and ox carts that has always been best known in the [...]
...read moreAre Men Intimidated By Successful Women?
Are we seriously still having this discussion? Fine. There are some insecure loser guys who panic at the idea of a woman who is their equal or — God forbid — their superior. They want someone who will smile pretty, laugh at all their jokes, and remind them that they’re a big strong man. Ok. [...]
...read moreAnd One for Insomnia
Apparently being tired as all hell is not enough to get me to sleep, so we’ll just take this boring quiz and call it a day. You Are 70% Boyish and 30% Girlish You are pretty evenly split down the middle – a total eunuch. Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get [...]
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