I love the look in the eyes of the woman pictured above.

For me, as a young woman, I found the healthiest response to the deluge of negative media, advertising, whatever influences about women's looks and body image was to just tune it out entirely. I refuse to engage in a lot of conversations that to me derive from this form of oppression, and whenever I find myself…

It's very much in line with the way that men and women are advised about rape and sexual assault, too. Last January, Latoya at Racialicious wrote about an experiment she did comparing women's and men's magazines' advice about sex and gender relations. Cosmo has rape prevention articles in almost every issue. …

Tipping, when calculated as part of wages, as it is for most servers in restaurants in the U.S., is an awful, coercive, discriminatory, sexist, racist, and thoroughly appalling system that should be abolished. A waiter or waitress's livelihood should not depend on the capricious judgments of random diners. They…

My sister's boyfriend slept over all the time when she was in high school. My parents' rationale: A) Teenagers have sex; help them get birth control if they need help. B) Better that they feel that it's okay to come home than stay out somewhere unsafe or spend more time out drinking. C) That way you get a better…

The Village Voice said it was published in 1999. So that is not before the internet, as in the world wide web, search engines, and chat rooms, but certainly before the internet as we know it now.

I think the self-published clue might be that the top of the cover advertizes a "Forward" by someone, rather than a "Foreword"....

Are there no gay women in France or something?

Ha. What a loser. Nice work getting rid of him so quickly!

Is it already April Fools Day in New Jersey?

The fact that the court talked a lot about standing, especially in the Hollingsworth case, shouldn't surprise anyone. It raises novel, and rather bizarre, questions of standing that can't be ignored.

Prisons not only are unbelievably horrific places, they are places that 98% of people who enter will eventually leave. What then?

The point is, women are perfectly capable of victimizing other people, but they don't generally victimize men the way that this article is discussing. Men do, however, in groups, dehumanize and victimize women. Your own example is of women being harmed, not men.

Just like all the sorority hazings that end up in gang rape of men...?

And then they victimizing and dehumanizing men as a group...?

I think this is a really great point, and agreed, a too-oft overlooked one. But the feminist critique is about why is it [almost] always the mother who stays home instead of the father. The logic behind career = feminist is that feminists have had to fight tremendously hard to get careers, while men have always had…

Personally, I'm married to a wonderful STEM person, but that doesn't make me a devotee. I'm so offended at how our society grovels at the feet of the quadratic and acts like artists and teachers and historians aren't contributing to this society. Why don't we staple green cards to people who come here for those…

The H-1B program isn't stalling women out of STEM jobs, women are kept out of STEM jobs for a host of reasons that people fight over a lot. The point is that increasing H-1Bs for STEM jobs kind of results in creating a man-visa. Pramila Jayapal wrote a nice discussion of the gender imbalance in our immigration…

The TV show is considerably more sexist than the books. The books give much more thought-time to female characters, while the TV show swaps most of that for on-screen nudity time. Not that the books were some kind of feminist vision, but yes, the misogyny of the TV show is apalling.

Actually, most exonerated people are offered very little. Not even an apology, in most cases, or reparations, and certainly there's just no way to give you back years of your life. For some reason our society seems more willing to accept that injustice than to be "soft on crime." Perhaps because they don't expect…