Don Hazen, AlterNet. November 16, 2009. The NY Times has just discovered that "douche" is used as an insult in mainstream media. Why do they seem to see the spread of a term derogatory to women as progress?
Courtney E. Martin, The American Prospect. November 14, 2009. Many young men reject the trappings of traditional, sexist masculinity. But what's the alternative?
Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check. November 12, 2009. It's bad enough the media teaches my daughter harmful gender stereotypes. Does she have to get it at school, too?
Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. November 7, 2009. Digitally-enabled mating culture has opened up the mate-finding process while also generating a whole new set of dating anxieties.
Rabbit White, SeXis Magazine. October 21, 2009. I wanted to have sex with both women and men. But how could I tell if I was really bisexual, or acting out "Girls Gone Wild" faux lesbianism?
Ronnie Koenig, AlterNet. October 21, 2009. Screaming at women about their appearances reinforces some men's sense of dominance -- but it's street harassment.
Cherry Trifle, SeXis Magazine. October 5, 2009. Thanks to a media marketing machine bent on making money by making women feel bad, women used to pour Lysol in their vaginas. Some still douche. But why?
Alex DiBranco, The Nation. October 4, 2009. The explosion of student sex columns represents a campus movement possessed of the same subversive potential that fueled 1960s student activism.
Tanya Gold, The Guardian. September 29, 2009. Drugs, money, revenge, because it's fun -- those are just a few of the reasons women have sex, according to a new book that interviewed 1,006 women from around the world.
Anna Clark, AlterNet. September 28, 2009. From orgasms to organs, from contraceptives to court decisions, look to the reading list below for the can't-miss books and articles about sex.
Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. September 25, 2009. By and large, women do far more housework than men and are better at it. It's creating a dirty situation.
Johann Hari, Independent UK. September 21, 2009. One day, we will look back on a time when women aspired to be Belsen-thin with the incomprehension we feel for Chinese foot-binding. But how do we get there?
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. September 15, 2009. Maher seems to think that physically assaulting women is a super funny joke.
Dave Zirin, Sherry Wolf, The Nation AlterNet: PEEK. September 15, 2009. Caster Semenya's unofficial results illuminate the intensity of a culture obsessed with short-sighted definitions.
Katha Pollitt, The Nation. September 7, 2009. Julie & Julia is that very rare movie about women's struggle to express their gifts through work. Not a boyfriend, a fabulous wedding, a baby or escape from a serial killer.
Rachel Simmons, The Penguin Press. September 1, 2009. Girls are encouraged to be nice, quiet, perfect, polite -- at the expense of their authenticity and sense of self.
Dave Zirin, Sherry Wolf, The Nation. August 22, 2009. South African runner Caster Semenya shouldn't be the one humiliated by "gender testing"-- it's the outdated views of athletic officials that are embarrassing.
Meika Loe, National Sexuality Resource Center. August 17, 2009. The little blue pill was supposed to transform our attitudes towards aging and sexuality. It merely reinforced bad cultural stereotypes about older men.
