“Seven Things I Learned as a Male Phone Sex Operator”

“A lot of them, as I say, just wanted to feel wanted. Some of the closeted guys wanted to try on the idea of talking sweetly and closely with another man, to see if that was really possible. They wanted to lay bare a part of themselves that they couldn’t show anyone else…

“Increasing diversity by ditching the GRE”

“There are two possible reasons for this offset: either men and women are fundamentally different in their physics abilities, or GRE scores are not testing what we think they’re testing. There are many reasons to favor the former over the latter. First, the male/female divide does…

“I’m sorry for coining the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl””

“And last year I had the surreal experience of watching a musical called Manic Pixie Dreamland, about a fantasy realm that produces Manic Pixie Dream Girls. Sitting in the dark theater, I thought: “What have I done?!”… I didn’t recognize the manic pixie anymore…

“Joy, Fear, and Twerking: The Glory of Amber Rose”

“There are two kinds of women, we are taught: women who are pure and good, wives and mothers on the pedestal of femininity; and there are the other women, the whores, the sluts, the strippers. You are either one or the other, we are taught, and we, women, grow up believing…

“Catcall video goes viral”