A Non-Inclusive Feminism
Last week, we linked to Meghan Murphy’s essay detailing why she believes that marriage is an anti-feminist choice. But Ona Anosike has a different view. I feel as marginalized in…
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Three Ways of Looking at Sex and the City
In this week’s New Yorker, TV critic Emily Nussbaum grapples with the cultural legacy of Sex and the City: High-feminine instead of fetishistically masculine, glittery rather than gritty, and daring in…
Down with Marriage?
Meghan Murphy at xoJane thinks that marriage is a tool of patriarchy. To her, rejecting marriage is the feminist choice. Marriage has been an institution within which women have suffered…
“bell hooks’ Feminism Is My Feminism”
In the latest installment of an Autostraddle feature described as “a biweekly devotional to whoever the fuck I’m into,” Carmen Rios throws a little love party for bell hooks. Inspired…
Down with Women’s Stories, Up with Stories about Women
I am not tired of stories about women’s lives, stories that tell me something real about how a particular woman thinks or works or loves. But I am tired of…
What About Sex-Negative Feminism?
“Sex does not happen in a vacuum immune to outside structural influences,” writes Jillian Horowitz in a piece titled “Unpopular Opinion: I’m A Sex-Negative Feminist.” “[I]n fact, it can (and…
“There Is No Prejudice Here Against Women”
There are more women in executive jobs today than there were fifteen years ago, five years ago, or a year ago, and men’s reluctance to give them executive rank seems…
Writer’s Mom Downplays Feminist Heroism
“…her husband was an alcoholic, but so clean cut. I didn’t really put two-and-two together until she came to me and said, ‘I need your help. My husband is going…
The Big Idea: Eve Ensler
Writer, journalist, activist, and lifelong feminist Eve Ensler talks with Suzanne Koven and explores the body's relationship to the desecration of the earth, the importance of listening to the "real" in ourselves, and how it feels to be known as "the woman who wrote The Vagina Monologues."
Reductress: Women’s News. Feminized.
In lieu of a “Funny Women” column today, please read all of Reductress, a new satirical women’s web magazine like The Onion that “tells the stories of real women, written by…
Go Ahead, Feed the Trolls
“If talking back to some random idiot makes me feel better—if it’s fortifying for my mental health—then I don’t care if I give some dumbass with 13 followers the flash-in-the-pan…
Women Are Bitches
“Women are bitches,” says a young man as he sits down. Apparently a woman at the bar wouldn’t give him her number.