“How Exactly Do You Teach Femininity?”

“Monica has worked with hundreds of transgender women, helping them navigate the tricky terrain of feminine signifiers. For around $130 an hour, Monica’s standard rate as a stylist (“I’m not going to upsell them just because they’re trans”), she will provide…

“How Some Men Fake an 80-HourWorkweek, and Why It Matters”

“Many of them were, at least, at one elite consulting firm studied by Erin Reid, a professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business…

Some 31 percent of the men and 11 percent of the women…

“On Steinem and Big Sean: loving sexist music as a feminist”

“I have playlists upon playlists teeming with songs boasting questionable lyrics. And even artists not from this decade are culpable for promoting a sexist message.

In The Rolling Stones’ “Under My…

“A Collection of Emails from Irate Men Defending Manspreading”

“Of the 18 emails, nine of them called out the campaign for being sexist against men, anti-male, or contained gripes about how they ways women take up space are a far worse problem. The complaints range from the…

“What Hollywood’s Acceptance Of Sexism Looks Like In Practice”

“I felt uncomfortable but was focusing on getting the shoot done. Without hesitation, I sat down next to Johansson with my laptop, explaining to him the process of creating reaction GIFs — at which point he slung his arm…

“Y’all, Women Can Walk Out the House Half-Naked If We Want”

“Isn’t the sexist assumption that flesh equals ‘trashy’ over yet? Take a moment to consider what the implication of that mode of thinking is. It basically says that a woman’s body is in and of itself a ‘bad’ thing. That it is…

“When Prostitution Is Nobody’s Business “

“Moral and political philosophers distinguish among different forms of privacy: physical, informational and decisional. When it comes to sex, we tend to have a strong expectation that we’ll be granted all three…

By contrast, other…

“This 1950s Movie Is More Feminist Than Most Movies Today”

“All About Eve, in a way, is all about mansplaining. In a year when Her is attempting to critique flimsy female characters with a female character whose sole function is to teach the male protagonist about himself, the fully…

“The Upsetting Reason Why We Don’t Always Know How Meds Affect Women”

“For much of medical history, men (and male animals) have been the “guinea pigs” for testing — effects, dosages, and side effects have been measured on primarily or completely male subjects. In modern medicine…

“Adult women are now the largest demographic in gaming “

“Teenage boys, who are often stereotyped as the biggest gamers, now lag far behind their older female counterparts, making up just 17 percent of the gaming demographic…

stereotypes are breaking fast in the…