I can already hear the outcry against conflating traditional marriage with slavery. Yes, I know, the marital bargain has changed: women are no longer chattels. Tell me this giving-away and name-changing are just vestiges of a cherished tradition. I’ll reply that some of my neighbors here in the sout…
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Most progressives wouldn’t hesitate to attend a football game, or to praise the enlightened new pope – the one who says he’s sorry, but women still can’t lead his church, or control our reproduction.
Patriarchy persists because power does not willingly cede its clout; and also, frankly, because women are widely complicit in the assumption that we’re separate and not quite equal. If we’re woke, we inspect ourselves and others for implicit racial bias, while mostly failing to recognize explicit ge…
The biggest, most complicated, hurdle is finding a way to hold men to account while also understanding that many of them feel they've been following a normal sexual script.
Must address this, though: 'I read it waiting for the moment when she took responsibility for what she did, or apologized..." The absolute fucking gall. Only in a virulently misogynist culture are women expected to apologize for seeking some semblance of justice or reprieve.
You seem to be so progressive, but when it comes to the sexes, it's like we're in the 1950s. Woman in the shadows while we're still supporting the men.
And here are the all-male nominees.
Obviously finding out something terrible about someone you love is difficult, but the best way to show your support for women – and this moment – is not to reflect on your own feelings or surprise, but on the victims.
Secret settlements perpetuate the problem. They allow rich men to continue to be sexual predators.
Men remain the gatekeepers to money and life experience, but we still see girls and young women as the ones with the power ― the power to cajole and seduce it from their daddies and their boyfriends. The solution, apparently, is for women simply to stop doing this, to stop trying to exploit and comp…
Our suspicion of ambitious women is so great that we side-eye them for, we assume, playing the game, far more so than the male gatekeepers who make the rules.
You put on makeup because it's fun, but why is lengthening your eyelashes and painting your lips redder fun, instead of painting your forehead blue and drawing roses on your cheeks? Because that's the beauty standard that the patriarchy has enforced on us... You can still make these choices. We're a…
What are we afraid to say and why can’t we say it? Women, particularly the most marginalized, are silenced, while powerful abusers can scream as loudly as they want, lie as much as they want and continue to profit through it all.
Feminism is the collective manifestation of anger. They suppress our anger for a reason. Let’s prove them right.
I did not call myself a feminist until I was nearly 20 years old. My world had taught me that feminists were ugly and ridiculous, and I did not want to be ugly and ridiculous. I wanted to be cool and desired by men, because even as a teenager I knew implicitly that pandering for male approval was a…
Not only are women expected to weather sexual violence, intimate partner violence, workplace discrimination, institutional subordination, the expectation of free domestic labor, the blame for our own victimization, and all the subtler, invisible cuts that undermine us daily, we are not even allowed…
If men are in control of the media (and they are – over 95% of clout positions in media are held by men), then what does that do to stories about women? If narratives about women are being controlled by men, is what’s being told about women really accurate — or is ‘correct,’ ‘normal,’ ‘real’ womanho…
I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household, and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period.
Catholicism and other Christian religions are yet another weapon against indigeneity by the European colonizers, and that the myth of purity is bullshit. Women do not belong to men nor to god.
Makeup is an oppressive tool that seeks to hide us women, to belittle us and force us to compete with one another.