Sexism

“When a woman or person of color becomes CEO, white men have a strange reaction”

“When companies appoint a woman or person of color as CEO, white men, on average, don’t appear to react very well, according to a study set to be published in the Academy of Management…

“Nobody Should Be Talking About Beto and Gillum in 2020 Until We Understand Stacey Abrams in 2018”

“This Georgia governor’s race was important and there was a lot of garbage news coverage that needed to be put in check. During the campaign, I had phones hung up…

“In one corner of the law, minorities and women are often valued less”

“The 4-year-old’s case is a rare public look at one corner of the American legal system that explicitly uses race and gender to determine how much victims or their families should receive in compensation when…

“The danger of the white American liberal”

“In four classes over three years, that gender acculturation would play out so many times one could think it staged. If two or more boys were together, they would argue over who was right. It was as if every boy lived in his own American Cassandra myth…

“Taraji P. Henson Made ‘Less Than 2 Percent’ of What Brad Pitt Did in Benjamin Button”

“Henson describes feeling humiliated by the process, but also pressured into taking the part, because of the scarcity of complex roles for black women. Henson writes:

“The Burkini-Bikini False Equivalence and Your Disproportionate Outrage”

“When a woman’s community acceptance, respect, dignity, employability, marriagiability, physical safety, enfranchisement, social mobility, access to social institutions, freedom, and autonomy hinge upon…

“What Did You Say?”

“Could you call this a microaggression when the victim of the comment wasn’t present? You felt it, even when it wasn’t directed at you. Your body shut down for a moment, your brain went into overdrive, you were at a loss for words.

What are the effects of racist…

“Katy Perry Woke Up. She Wants to Tell You All About It.”

“In our interview, she proclaimed herself devoted to dialogue but spoke in a near uninterrupted monologue. She griped frequently about the internet (the “Wild Wild West,” a quip she repeated on the live stream nearly every time I…

“Am I Queen? On Beauty Privilege and Its Discontents”

“If there is something I love it is being alone in public space. That feeling of being absolutely with myself surrounded by people has a magic energy to it that I enjoy thoroughly. There’s a comfortable harmony in having the peace of my…