Oh for sure. The Yellow Wallpaper gives a really harrowing glimpse of its deeply damaging effects.

I specialized in medieval art history in college (because who needs money????).

Have you ever heard the story of how Bill and Hillary met? Apparently they were making eyes at one another in a law library, so she marched up to him and said “if you’re going to keep looking at me and I’m going to keep looking at you, we ought to know one another. I’m Hillary Rodham.” His response? “I forgot my own…

I met HRC once, on my 21st birthday. I was working at a Clinton Foundation fundraiser at the Museum of Natural History in NYC. They hadn’t told us anything about how the Clintons would enter and I just assumed they would come in the back through some super secret door or something.

“My body count? Soon to be 1, after I kill you for being such a douchebag.”

I have dressed my son in pink clothes since he was born. I mean, he wears other colors, too, but I have intentionally bought floral and pink stuff. When people ask me why I dress him in pink, I say, gender neutral always just means girls wearing things that is acceptable for a boy to wear in a gendered world, but…

Those parties bother the shit out of me. You may know what sex your child will be at birth, but you have no idea what gender that child is until they tell you.

I’m a father of four children—we had three girls first (two of the three being twins), and then we had a fourth—a boy. I was just happy he was healthy in the womb and born without issue (my wife had a heterotrophic pregnancy with the twins). But man, so many people, male and female (males being much more…

when my son was about 2 or 3 he was toddling through town pushing his blue-clothed baby doll in his sister’s pink dolly stroller. He got a few funny looks, but one older man who I will love forever smiled at him and said, “I see you’re practicing being a good dad.” What a great attitude!

Aaaaaagh! The weird gender norm brigade works my last damn nerve. Do these people not even think about how the kids feel? A friend was one of five kids, whose parents kept having more kids because “they really wanted a boy.” My friend was oldest, and even as a kid, I thought, ‘Wow! Way to really screw up your…

We had to do this with our middle child, who is severely allergic to peanuts. It required a lot of consciousness raising among the school staff and other parents, and it definitely ruffled some feathers among parents who thought it was their god-given right to send peanut-butter snacks into the classroom if they…

That karate anecdote really hit home for me. Karate was my life from ages 10-16, when I finally got my black belt. However, once thrown into class with the other black belts, most of whom were men in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, I quit within six months. Why? Because they made inappropriate and sexist remarks about my…

And as a mixed raced child who had a white mother who took every single racial and sexist battle - and won them, I’ll say: the exhaustion is worth it.

When my son was in kindergarten, I consistently spoke up as the parent of a kid with autism, bringing those issues into conversations, and I worried that it would mark me as the Weird Mom, but after a couple of years I saw attitudes changing among the parents.

So past the initial article...she’s basically getting harassed for spreading the word about female scientists? FFS. Why are there so many pockets of men intent on erasing the accomplishments of women? And at the same time, dedicated to advancing the idea that women aren’t good at STEM. It’s really disgusting.

My female cat, Paige, hates being picked up - thinks we’re about to kill her or something.

This is actually unique to Mexican and Peruvian Spanish, especially among the educated upper- classes. As seats of New Spain in the new world, Mexico City and Lima cultivated a uniquely highbrow Castillian dialect. It would be like Boston or Philadelphia adopting the Queen's English, aka received pronunciation. In…