Desire and Consent: Discussing Recent Rape Apologies
by: Rachel Luban Trigger Warning: discussion of sexual assault and victim-blaming follows. By now you may be acquainted with the firestorm set off by the Good Men Project’s publication of […]
Category Archives: Society
A Clearly Confused Paglia: Examining Her Latest Critique of Popstars
by: Mariann Devlin Camille Paglia, in a piece for the Hollywood Reporter, slammed both Taylor Swift and Katy Perry for lacking the kind of gritty eroticism as their pop-music colleagues […]
Tis’ the Season of Anxiety: My Dislike of the Holidays
by: Amanda Owens Those that know me in real life know that I am not a big fan of holidays. Usually quite peppy otherwise, it often surprises people that I […]
When Discounts Trump What Matters: The Grand Irony of Black Friday
by: Kara Crawford My first day working retail ever was a Black Friday, and I suppose it’s somewhat of a miracle that day didn’t scare me out of retail work […]
Separation Anxiety: Our Need to Disassociate and Why We Don’t Have To
by: Sara Hughes I was killing time, as people sometimes do, cruising Reddit. Within /r/DoesAnybodyElse I clicked on an interesting forum. Basically, they asked if anyone else found it difficult […]
Do You Realize How Lucky You Are?
by: Emily Heist Moss Note: This piece was originally featured on Role/Reboot and was republished with permission. You can find the original here. In this piece, Emily Heist Moss asks: […]
What Responses to Hurricane Sandy Tell Us
by: Khai Devon Over the past week or so, I’ve been glued to my Facebook news feed, real news feeds and texts from my friends in New York, Maryland and […]
Don’t Paraphrase My Penis: Calling My Surgery What It Is To Me
by: Shelby Green Despite years of trying to assign meaning to it, the act of paraphrasing my penis has been a failure for society. Good. Nietzsche wrote that language assigns […]
On Men Who Think Street Harassment Would Be Awesome
by Miriam Mogilevsky Whenever women are discussing street harassment and what causes it and how to prevent it, a man inevitably comes along to inform us that, actually, our feelings about harassment […]
Taking the Exploitation Cake: Why “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” Disgusts Me
by: Joshua Isaacson If you have not taken a minute to stop keeping up with the Kardashians and to catch up with the Shannon family, I highly recommend you do. […]
