This cover is terrible, but it didn't have to be. I don't mind that publishers want to target specific markets through cover art—fine, that's how capitalism works. But for the love, can we please dispose of outworn themes? "For women? Make it pink! Wanna put a professional woman on the cover? Okay, but make sure we…

Yep, I can totally see this. So many norms of masculinity just seem like attempts at denying one's own vulnerability—emotional, physical, psychological. But vulnerability is like the fundamental thing humans have in common; we can all get hurt and we're all gonna die someday. Our existences are fragile.

I hope hope hope there's actual change resulting from the task force recommendations. After a seemingly endless series of disheartening events, my goodfeels about my institution are at an all-time low (current grad student). I've had a few moments of visceral disdain for the Oregon O and all the Ducks gear students…

Misogyny is the spirit of the entire industry, because it's the "spirit," if you will, of just about everything. Noticing and calling out misogyny where you see it is what it means to be a feminist (verb), and since misogyny is embedded in our very language, it quite literally exists everywhere we do. Women and…

Both men and women on our campus are more likely to be assaulted or raped at Greek-affiliated events. The data also suggests that frat brothers are 3 times more likely to commit sexual assault than non-frat men on campus. When asked about these data points in particular, the director of Fraternity & Sorority Life spun…

We went to antiques stores and secondhand coin & jewelry-type places. Mine's a pretty, delicate, 1920s white gold ring with art deco-ish filigree and a blue sapphire. I LOVE it. I barely feel it on my finger and it doesn't scream "engagement ring!" It doesn't get caught on things. It was only $180.

I agree with these guidelines. But I also think the situation could be made easier if people just didn't spend so much GD money on a tiny piece of jewelry. I don't think less of people who do spend a lot—I honestly can't even imagine what it would be like. I know some straight women who see the ring as a literal…

The UO has on its faculty a nationally renowned professor, J Freyd, who specializes in trauma and institutional betrayal. She was invited to DC as part of the President's initiative to address assault and rape on college campuses. She designed this study. Because the administration would rather spend a few hundred…

Whoa. I'm sorry, but are you implying that to respect women's boundaries is to treat them like children?

I fucking love this kind of break-up anthem. Danced to it just now and would totally want to dance any time I hear it, even if hiking with my dog. The video totally keeps the focus where it should be—on strong, sexy, not-taking-shit Mary, dropping her trench in the middle of the London street, because this is her show…

Beautiful article. After a baby-boom among close friends and family over the past few years, I've been thinking about this in re: my role as auntie to lots of people in the under-5 set. I was playing with my 14 month-old niece recently (only the 2nd time I met her. omg she's the best.), and I stopped myself from…

"Your daughter, Mo'Ne" Heck. Yes. So powerful to see a 13 y-o assert her place, as a black girl, within boy-centered spaces like baseball, and to claim her Americanness in a white supremacist USofA.

I went through a fairly short, super fun, and ultimately quite responsible drug phase in my early 20's (seriously, over a decade later, I'm both proud and embarrassed of how nerd-like I approached the whole thing). AFAIK, I wasn't roofied, but I did have a bad trip at a house party this one time. It was a small party,…

YAS.

While I'm no critic of contemporary pop culture, I am a lit teacher/scholar, and here's the thing. It is not the artist's job to be always willing and available to comment on criticism. We allow creative people to be variously involved in the public conversations that surround their works. Sure, Kaling's famous, and…

A couple years ago, my father tells me, "I'm not a Republican. For years I thought I was, but I'm not! I'm a Libertarian!" I honestly didn't know how to respond. Um, congratulations? The older he gets, the more intense he becomes. It kinda worries me at the same time as it infuriates me. At this point, I've pretty…

I openly admit to peeing in the shower, and this is the reason I cite. I have no real knowledge except I think Madonna mentioned it on Letterman in the 90s. So ya know, must be true.

This is hysterical! I would've asked you out, Brian.

Yeah, none of this negates her behavior, which was problematic throughout the whole season and only reached it's blatant worst at the very end. And when a young privileged white woman projects all of her insecurities onto the only woman of color left... Nope.

While I've side-eyed organized religion practically since birth, this makes me glad I was raised a repressed Catholic. At least I never had to listen to any sex-obsessed homilies while sitting in a church pew next to my family... Nor would my parents, being repressed Catholic boomers, ever speak quite so openly about…