In an apparent unabashed display of misogyny and racist dog-whistling, the husband of a newly sworn-in Republican U.S. Senator was shown on video refusing to shake the hand of Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday at the U.S. Capitol.
After Ne-Yo recently shared his controversial opinion, social media users are taking sides.
My father is much, much older than I am. I won’t give away his age here, but he was nearly 50 years old when he had me. That means he was past the age of retirement when I graduated high school (though that man will never retire), and he was developing grey hairs when I […]
I can’t stand when men do this to me in a group setting, but it happens all of the time. When they’re addressing the group—meaning everyone standing there—they make a point to look in the eyes of each person except for me while telling their story. It’s a power move that says, “You’re not in this conversation.”
When you give an enlivened speech about a subject about which you’re passionate—or even enraged—he gives a chuckle and says that your “sassiness” is “cute.”
As much as we love our parents, they can have traits that we’re glad not to inherit. In fact, forming our own identity is often a combination of picking and choosing which of our parents values and beliefs we take with us, and which ones we leave behind. As you’re reading this, you can probably […]
Because women can be inherently nurturing, some coworkers think it’s okay to come crying to us about their breakups or fights with their roommates. They even think maybe we’ll cut them some slack for, well, slacking off due to their personal issues. But we aren’t obligated to provide a shoulder to cry on or free therapy to our professional associates.
Usually the men who tell women to smile just believe that women are objects put on this earth for the visual enjoyment of men. And, since we’re more visually pleasing when we smile, these men think we aren’t doing our jobs when we don’t smile. Yeah, guess what—we aren’t here for you, dudes.
While some straight men say they know what it’s like to be a woman, all because they’ve spent two hours at a gay bar receiving unsolicited advances, they have no idea.
In this age of awakening, we’re learning a lot about the flaws in our thinking about gender, race, and a number of other social and cultural constructs. But several terms that are rather offensive to women have stuck around, perhaps because they are not overtly derogatory. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t damaging. Some men […]
It’s not just the men outwardly protesting women’s rights by marching in the streets, or the ones who say things like, “A woman’s place is in the kitchen” who are sexist and misogynistic. But there are a lot of men who have the dangerous belief that if they don’t fit into one of those categories, […]
