My wife was raised to be the “princess” type and half my time in the early months of our marriage was trying to get her to be an “adult”. Not a woman, not a girl, not a princess, not anything with gender associations. Just an “adult” in the sense that if she has dreams, we can work together to achieve them. Nobody…

I have also heard the “buying tampons makes a guy gay” thing and always wondered... how? Wouldn’t gay men be the least likely to need tampons?

The last time Gloria Steinem was on Bill Maher’s show she said something that shook me to the core: women radicalize as they get older, as they realize that male power increases with age and female power diminishes. Women get angry about it and that’s where no-filter old ladies come from.

“(they’re woke but not like super woke)“

That guy sounds like a sack of shit fuck him.

I usually only use the word in an ironic context. It’s a dumb word, but to be honest I was too lazy to find something more eloquent and fitting. What I intended to say is that while they are generally forward thinking and support women’s right and such, they sometimes say really stupid shit. But yeah, dudes shouldn’t…

I wish I could give that 6th grade you a hug, and that 6th grade boy a year’s worth of detention and a gender studies class.

These are always the most ridiculous responses to feminine products and their accoutrement. And it always seems to be the most boastful guy about sex and girls. When I’ve told other guys (when I was younger) that I buy tampons and deal with all that stuff for my girlfriends and they cringe, I go equally as juvenile…

They couldn’t even handle the wrapper?! Oh, the childishness.

“Wanna fuck?”

My version of Michael pitched a fit because my roommate threw away a sanitary napkin in her own bathroom, and it had the gall to come unrolled. “Too much information.” In our shared bathroom.

My mom had told my sister and I to “bury” the evidence. To make an effort to hide the wrapper / pad in the garbage can under other garbage, if it is empty, crumple some extra tissues and place them on top, etc. All because it would “disgust” men to see it. I still find myself doing this, even though I know its…

Yep. Bad ass human beings who rock and rule and don’t take any shit! I’m trying to raise my daughters to be this.

Thank you so much. This is amazing. As I read I am reminded of a boy who tormented me when I was in 6th grade by snapping my bra strap again and again. The taunts and laughter. How ashamed I felt that I needed a bra. How powerless I felt to stop it. That year I went from wearing soft pink sweaters and pretty skirts to…

This was powerful and eloquent and touched a nerve.

Whenever I read a frothy article that’s all ‘Here are the top ten things in women’s fashion that men hate’, I just want to do everything on the list as a reminder that I do not exist for anybody’s boner. It’s that level of pettiness that led to me cutting off all of my hair after a boyfriend told me he didn’t want me…

As others have said, I truly love most of this piece and like most women, can identify with most of your experiences and feelings — in one way or another, it’s the shared journey of womankind, sadly.

What I do take issue with, and forgive me if I’m simply misinterpreting your words or the meaning behind them, is that…