Longtime NOW activist Ben Atherton-Zeman writes for the Ms. Magazine blog: “Daniel Tosh makes jokes that support rape culture and he’s defended as a ‘nice guy’ while feminists are threatened with rape for pointing it out. Joe Paterno is accused of partic…
Abigail Collazo for Fem2.0: “This weekend’s New York Times ‘Room for Debate’ asks whether today’s men are ‘manly enough’…When we talk about gender roles, we aren’t just talking about feminism and whether women can have it all or how we achieve work-lif…
Katha Pollitt dissects a New York Times article for The Nation: “Do we really need a front-page story in the Sunday New York Times to tell us that a woman with a college degree and a good solid marriage is better off than a college dropout raising three…
The Washington Post reports: “For more than two decades, colleges and universities have been required to publicly share details of campus crimes and report murders, rapes, robberies, arson and other serious offenses to the federal government. That requir…
Jennifer Abbasi of Live Science discusses a study about the possibility of self-sexualization in young girls: “Most girls as young as 6 are already beginning to think of themselves as sex objects, according to a new study of elementary school-age kids in…
