Gender

Lesbian Myths, Debunked

By Jodie Gummow / AlterNet

Gender stereotypes about the lesbian community distort gay women's experience.

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In Texas, It's OK to Murder an Escort if She Won't Sleep with You

By Katie McDonough / Salon

Why the Raw, Animalistic Female Libido Is Repressed

By William Hogeland / William Hogeland's blog

GOP Senator Inadvertently Explains Why Women Are Better Suited For Combat Than Men

By Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

The Truth About Female Desire: It’s Base, Animalistic and Ravenous

By Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon

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Gender

Fox Clings to Traditional Marriage While the Rest of Us Live in the Real World

Nicole Rodgers / Role Reboot

Motherhood at 40 and the Bioethical Quagmires of Reproductive Technology

Miriam Zoll / Interlink Books

Fox News Commentator: Breadwinning Women Are “Hurting our Children"

Annie-Rose Strasser / Think Progress

How Class Anxiety and Masculinity Fears Push Men to Work Longer Hours

Joan Williams / Huffington Post

A 22-Year-Old Woman Is About to Die for the Sake of a Fetus With No Chance of Survival—This Is "Pro-Life?"

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Beyonce's Pitch-Perfect Response to Getting Butt Slapped: An Example for Everybody

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Christian Radio Host Says Husbands Should Get Their Sense of Worth from Outearning Their Wives

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Social Media Campaign Finally Forces Facebook to be Less Pro-Rape

Kristen Gwynne / AlterNet

18 Year-Old Facing Felony Charges for Same-Sex Relationship with 14 Year-Old Refuses Plea Deal, Heads to Court

Katie McDonough / Salon

Amid Sexual Assault Crisis in Military, Sergeant Accused of Filming West Point Cadets in the Bathroom

Steven Hsieh / AlterNet

Why Has Humanity Always Fantasized About the Capture and Rape of Women?

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Horrifying New Trend: Posting Rapes to Facebook

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Inside the Controversy Over Man Charged with Murder for Slipping an Abortion Pill to Pregnant Girlfriend

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

NYPD Arrested and Committed Woman to Psychiatric Ward for Legally Baring Breasts

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Merida And The Disturbing Disney Princess Syndrome

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

State Decides Hermaphrodite Baby's Gender with Irreversible Sex-Assignment Surgery

Dan McCrue / Courthouse News

Men Step Up to Support Women's Rights and Fight Violence ... Stars and Regular Guys Say They Are Ready to Show Up

Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet

Judge Denounces Obama’s Bizarre Opposition to Plan B Contraception As Harming Women and Teens

Katie McDonough / Salon

My First Baby Was Born with a Rare Syndrome -- I'm Pregnant Again, and Worried About What Could Happen

Heather Kirn Lanier / Salon

Cleveland Horror Caps Week of Violence Against Women

Leslie Savan / The Nation

Mad Science or School-to-Prison? Criminalizing Black Girls

Sikivu Hutchinson / Black Agenda Report

Top General's Unbelievably Idiotic Comment About Rape in the Middle of Military Rape Epidemic

Katie Halper / AlterNet

Did Make-Up Give My Wife Breast Cancer? The Ugly Truth Hidden by the Cosmetics Industry

John Wasik / The Washington Monthly

Why the "Sexually Pure Good Girl" Is a BS Myth That Screws Both Women and Men

Lindy West / Jezebel

The Growing Cost of Having Kids Is Tipping More Women Towards Ambivalence about Motherhood

Lisa Wade / AlterNet

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