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Meet Sandy,[1] a smart, attractive, successful woman in her thirties. She’s an editor at a premiere magazine, has tons of friends, a warm, supportive partner whom she loves and likewise adores her, two rehabilitated shelter cats, a Sedaris sharp...
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Bad Reputation: Doing Damage Control on Your Internet Profile | TechCoquette – If...
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It’s up!
My second Radical Masculinity column for Carnal Nation is titled How to Make Masculinity Stop Hurting. Here’s the beginning:
My dad’s best friend died last week. Heart attack. He was 60, barely older than my dad, not old enough for his...
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My dad's best friend died last week. Heart attack. He was 60, barely older than my dad, not old enough for his heart to give way. They've been friends for 35 years, longer than I've been alive. I got a heartbreaking email from my father about how...
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“You're going to have to beat boys off with a stick when she's older." The speaker, an older woman, smiled affectionately at my daughter and brushed a hand over her dark wispy hair.
I smile outwardly and cringe inwardly.
How do you know...
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Child, whispering: Mommy?
Me, head under covers: Mmmm?
Child: Mommy, my bulva hurts.
Me, reading clock through one slightly open eye: Why does your bulva hurt at 5:30 in the morning?
Child: I don’t know! It hurts when I push on it.
Me: Then top...
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FWD/Forward – FWD (feminists with disabilities) for a way forward
Richmond High School gang rape: Cops arrest 2 in attack on Calif. teen girl; Bystanders did...
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An autumnal chill is in the air, and many store displays now boast Halloween costumes and decorations. I often dress up as a witch—it's easy (although every year I vow to put more thought into my costume!), it's sexy and slipping on that...
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“Will you link to my new site?” read the email. “My partner and I intend to make it the next big thing.” I rolled my eyes, but before I sent it straight to the trash (to keep company with hundreds of similar emails I’ve gotten lo these many years),...
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Bitch Magazine—a feminist publication you may have heard of—recently rejected the above ad for VooDoo Doughnut's branded clothing line. Their rationale? They felt it was sexist, and...
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I’ve got a new column on Carnal Nation called Radical Masculinity, and the first one went up two weeks ago. Here’s an excerpt:
Remember back in the Spring of 2009 when two young boys committed suicide within a week of each other, both eleven years...
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Remember back in the Spring of 2009 when two young boys committed suicide within a week of each other, both eleven years old? Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover of Massachusetts and Jaheem Herrera of Georgia were both being subjected to unbearable anti-gay...
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Through the years, I've had quite a few interesting encounters with those who have chosen to come out of the closet. Back in my college days, "outing yourself" simply meant openly proclaiming yourself as gay, lesbian, or bisexual. This was...
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Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction
Edited by Sabrina Chapadjiev
Seven Stories Press
$17.95, 240 pp.
I began reading this book with an academic mind. In college I had taken a course on female psychology, and the readings that stood...
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Sex, of course, sells, and nobody knows this more than HBO, the network that once brought you Sex and the City and Rome and now airs such sexy fare as Hung and True Blood. The Hollywood Reporter announced today that Diane Keaton will star in a new...