Hollaback now, girls
If you’ve ever been whistled at or called “baby” by a stranger, Kate Ziegler knows how you feel.
Ziegler was used to being the victim of street harassment before she started training for a marathon in 2011. Sh...
Jennifer Lawrence is the Newest Member of the Pixie Club
The pixie cut has officially claimed another convert. Jennifer Lawrence prepares for the newest installment of the Hunger Games by chopping off her signature locks.
Lawrence posted a picture of herself with he...
West coast transplant: A shut-in who took four months to leave his new apartment
Let’s talk about movement. We do a lot of it--sometimes. I blame the internet and airplanes. That cliched phrase that nobody uses anymore: “the world is your oyster” is basically the Schrodinger’s cat of cliche...
"Models' Rights Law" signed by Cuomo
Coco Rocha, a longtime model, speaks at a press conference last TuesdayThe past week provided a huge step forward for young women working in the modeling industry, which is often volatile, hostile, and, at tim...
Cultural Appropriation: Your Favorite Pop Star Probably Has A Race Problem
Cultural appropriation is a little-discussed aspect of racism, if only because it’s not incredibly overt.
Cultural appropriation is not burning crosses or job or housing discrimination, but it’s just as dama...
Outgrowing Texas: a gay adolescence under the Lone Star
I am an out gay man born in Texas the year after Stonewall. My mom was a wacky matriarch who assumed Auntie Mame offered a blueprint for childrearing and that disco could save the world. She raised me to believ...
Interview: Brittany Gibbons had sex every day for a whole year
The thing about fears and anxieties is that you have to face them to overcome them. Afraid of snakes? Hold one. Can’t stand speaking in front of people? Give more presentations. My mom has struggled with anxiet...
“Fit-shaming” needs to stop, immediately
While we are tip-toeing around fat-shaming, being sure not to hurt anyone’s feelings while attempting to inform them of the risks that come with being overweight and obese, we have no problem shaming people...
Verily Magazine Focuses on Beauty without Photoshop
It’s about time. There’s finally a magazine that has vowed not to use Photoshop to alter the pictures of women in their magazine in any way. Verily Magazine, started by Kara Eschbach, a former finance and inve...
“Fitness mom” Maria Kang defends herself after the Internet attacks
Maria Kang defends herself from critics
In this Internet-centric world, it is easy for anyone to input their opinion on practically anything. For one Sacramento mother of three, this phenomenon turned ugly af...
5 takeaways from the 2013 ALCS so far
I know we're only potentially halfway through the 2013 ALCS so far, but seriously, how amazing has it been so far?
You don't need to hear it again, but I have to fill 300 words to appease Google, so: One yea...
Please don't call me "ma'am"
There is so much attached to turning 30. People expect things from you. They think you should be married…or at least on the marriage track. They think you should have a fulfilling career and the beginnings of ...
Sex, Sleeping Beauty & Seven Year Olds
My 7-year-old daughter asked me a question yesterday that sparked a conversation about sex, pleasure, consent, rape, marriage, sexual fantasies, communication and respect.
I want to share it with you for a c...
Tips from a Marine: How to Be an Above-Average Man
Man tips from a marine.
What kind of man did you think you would be as a boy? Are you that man, or are you even the guy you’d like to be? It might be time for you to step outside of your comfort zone and beco...
American Apparel creates “Period Power” t-shirt, because they can
Well, it’s definitely not as subtle as a Georgia O’Keefe.
American Apparel has unveiled a piece of “self-pleasing artwork” emblazoned on a T-shirt aptly named “Period Power.”
The line drawing, from an all-wom...
Why I hate “The Big Bang Theory”
At first, the Big Bang Theory as an entire concept seems like a great idea. It’s a TV sitcom that takes a handful of male nerds and has them live in an apartment complex across from a beautiful blonde woman...
Catcalls vs Compliments: Some Guidelines
Street harassment is very much in my news feeds these days. It’s something many of us are paying more attention to. I see a lot of women talking about it – and a lot of men responding somewhat defensively, “We’...
My Story: I was sexually harassed and couldn’t heal until I forgave myself
From child abuse, domestic violence, and sexual harassment, to human sex trafficking and atrocities against civilians in war-torn countries, our world creates new victims daily.
Broken bones and bruises heal, ...
October is Let’s Talk Month
October is Let’s Talk Month, so, let's talk about sex (among other things).
I thought I was ahead of the curve. I really did. I’ve talked to my kids about their bodies, about dating, about making out, about se...
Obamacare — 13 things we wish Republicans knew
Republicans contend Obamacare is unpopular with and harmful to Americans, but polls such as this one from the Kaiser Foundation indicate that the more people understand the law, the more they like it. Don’t be ...
