It is often women who pay the price for what men want. The
I’m not sure what’s more of a pain in my ass—being black or being a woman. I’m happy to be both of these things, but the world keeps intervening.
Many feminist communities use trigger warnings, particularly in online forums when discussing rape, sexual abuse, and violence. By using these warnings, these communities are saying, This is a safe sp...
My body is treated like a public space. 62 Air travel is another kind of hell.
Nemeses aren’t born. They are made.
One thing he had learned in this life—there were always barbarians at both sides of the gate. He
Or they say, I know you don't like hugs, but I'm going to hug you anyway, and I have to dodge their incoming bodies as politely as I can. Why do we view the boundaries people create for themselves as...
Pointing out the many ways in which misogyny persists and harms women is not anger. Conceding the idea that anger is an inappropriate reaction to the injustice women face backs women into an unfair po...
Rosin is not wrong that life has improved in measurable ways for women, but she is wrong in suggesting that better is good enough.
Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read.
She was trying to disappear and she couldn’t. It is unbearable to want something so little and need it so much.
Sometimes, people who, I think, mean well like to tell me I am not fat. They will say things like, Don’t say that about yourself, because they understand fat as something shameful, something insulting...
Sorrow allows us a freedom that happiness does not.
Still, I keep coming back to the relative impunity with which the men in This Is How You Lose Her get to behave badly, and to the tone of the critical reception to these stories, which are not only st...
Take, for example, someone like Don Lemon. He is a black man, raised by a single mother, and now he is a successful news anchor for a major news network. His outlook seems driven by the notion that if...
That’s a common tactic of abusers—isolating their victims—but we’re supposed to think the way Christian isolates Ana in luxury is romantic. A prison is still a prison even when the sheets are 1200 thr...
The Help, I have decided, is science fiction, creating an alternate universe.
The [Sweet Valley High] books were the most familiar and resonant expressions of our angst and our fondest wishes for ourselves, the girls we wanted to become.
The article was entitled Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town, as if the victim in question were the town itself. James McKinley Jr., the article’s author, focused on how the men’s lives would be changed...
The more successful I get, the more I am reminded that in the minds of a great many people I will never be anything more than my body. No matter what I accomplish, I will be fat, first and foremost.
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