I think motherhood has made issues all feel much more urgent than they did before. So it didn't necessarily change how I feel about certain things - ….

Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the laundry' and 'clean….

It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings..

Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn’t matter how much we love them. They hate us”.

Yes, the more successful you are—or the stronger, the more opinionated—the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people will think you’re….

Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather t….

It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used..

If your husband is cheating on you, it doesn't mean that you need to get prettier -- it means he's a scumbag..

Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Wo….

The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young w….

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sex….

Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as….

Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexualit….

The Internet is the new public space. And because women are out in public, people don't like that in much the same way that if you're walking down th….

In 1986, Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they 'would brag about how long and how much': that boys would talk about their menstruation a….

The studies about differences between the sexes that you see kind of get propped up in the media are more often than not denigrating women in some wa….

Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity ….

Be as pissed off as you want to be. Don’t hold back because you think it’s unladylike or some such nonsense. We shouldn’t be shamed out of our anger.….

[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality..

Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman.

When are we going to realize that hating other women - no matter how much money they have or how far they've fallen - is just as bad for ourselves as….