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  • "For a constructed vagina to b…

    "For a constructed vagina to be considered acceptable by surgeons specialized in intersexuality, it basically just has to be a hole big enough to fit a typical-sized penis. It is not required to be self-lubricating or even to be at all sensitive, and certainly does not need to change shape the way v…

  • Find a Man Today, Graduate Tomorrow

    Find a Man Today, Graduate Tomorrow Susan Patton told young women to look for a mate in college. Liberals went crazy. My mom said the same thing. By EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH In 2008, when I was a college junior, I went home to New Jersey one weekend to visit my family—and almost immedi…

  • Incompetent What?

    The principal occupational hazard for an ethicist is the tendency to get really riled really easily. Today, I'm annoyed--really, really annoyed--at insensitivity and latent misogyny in medical terminology. Why do men have erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation but women have incompetent ce…

  • In Defense Of The Housewife

    I feel like housewives (no, I don't mean the ones on Bravo — I'm talking more of the "stay at home with the children" kind) get a bad rep. In today's world, if people think you don't pull your own weight they label you as lazy. Many stay-at-home moms and housewives are attacked for not "maki…

  • 'Tropes Vs. Women In Video Games' Series Critiques Sexism In Video Games

    Feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian deconstructs video games from a big picture perspective by analyzing women's roles and representations in gaming. In the first part of the "Tropes vs. Women in Video Games" series, Sarkeesian examines the damsel in distress trope by exploring patterns, tropes…

  • Puritanical hedonism

    JDN 2456375 EDT 22:14. There is a segment of our culture that prides itself on pleasure without consequences; "party all night"; "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints"; "wrong in all the right ways"; "so delicious it's sinful", "YOLO". A lot of people who speak this way seem…

  • Have You Ever Been #Followed?

    A few weeks ago, Everyday Sexism Project launched a campaign which encouraged women to tweet with the hashtag "#followed" during occurrences when she felt that a man was getting too close for comfort or was literally pursuing her.

  • Why It's Not Okay To Tell Women To Smile

    This has probably happened to most of us before: You're going about your day, minding your own business, when a complete stranger comes up to you and says "Smile!" or something along the lines of "Life isn't that bad, honey! You should smile!" and walks away. What just happened? Well, let me tell…

  • Is 'Oz The Great And Powerful' A Step Back?

    Hollywood had been on a role lately with their relaunching of all the franchises that I grew up with, especially fairy tales. From Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters to Jack the Giant Slayer and now Oz The Great and Powerful, Hollywood seems to have hit the jackpot with its reboots, cashing in on…

  • Ism-Teen

    When I was in HS, a HS junior in fact, my frenemy classmate CT used to like to jokingly refer to me as an "ism-teen" given my then-predilection for existentialism. If I'd be more class-conscious at that time, I might have responded that he was a bourgeois-affectation-teen, but alas. Regardless, his…