Men
Males want to speak about intercourse otherwise. Right here's how.
Sitting on the bar after a comedy open mic, a few male comics requested me about intercourse events. A joke I’d tried on stage about one expertise had sparked their curiosities. After the same old questions on participation necessities, gender ratios, and voyeurism etiquette, one man requested me how consent works at a play occasion. […]
Easy methods to speak to the boys in your life about poisonous masculinity
Poisonous masculinity is a time period with a poisonous legacy. As with many phrases usually related to feminist discourse, ‘poisonous masculinity’ is a phrase that is been co-opted by the so-called alt-right. That is one of many causes journalist Liz Plank nearly eliminated each single use of the time period from her e book For […]
Billy Porter thinks there's an enormous drawback with how we reply to males in attire
Billy Porter has been the speak of the city this week after donning a showstopping dress-suit hybrid to the Tony Awards. Customary out of the Kinky Boots curtain — sure, curtain — Porter’s Tony’s outfit featured a uterus motif as an announcement about girls’s reproductive rights. Chatting with Stephen Colbert, Porter talked about social views […]
'You're not alone': Well-known males are speaking about psychological well being, and it might save lives
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Michael Phelps, and Kevin Love all share one factor in frequent, and it is not their fame. As an alternative, every of those males has completed one thing as soon as unthinkable: They’ve talked publicly about their psychological well being struggles. SEE ALSO: 11 instances well-known males spoke up […]
Doritos could introduce a softer chip for girls as a result of apparently solely males have enamel
As a lady, I’ve lengthy dreamed of the day I may chunk right into a chip that has the identical density as a menstrual pad. That day could also be coming before I assumed. In a brand new Freakonomics interview(opens in a brand new tab) with the CEO of PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi, Nooyi revealed that […]
Nasty ladies (and males) to crowdsource 'marching orders' forward of midterm elections
This weekend marks a 12 months since hundreds of thousands of nasty ladies (and males) marched in protest following the inauguration of Donald J. Trump. March On(opens in a brand new tab), a brand new group branching out from the Girls’s March(opens in a brand new tab) motion, desires to take a “backside up” method […]
Matt Lauer is what occurs when males who’re horrible to ladies are given each good thing about the doubt
UPDATE: Nov. 30, 2017, 2:50 p.m. PST This story has been up to date to incorporate an apology Lauer issued Thursday morning. Matt Lauer spent the previous 20 years on the Right this moment deploying his goofiness and matter-of-fact interviewing fashion to win over tv audiences. On Wednesday morning, nevertheless, viewers awoke to the information […]
Kevin Spacey's alleged predatory habits reveals why males hardly ever report sexual assault
Within the week since actor Anthony Rapp stated Kevin Spacey made an undesirable sexual advance towards him as a youngster, greater than a dozen males have come ahead with related(opens in a brand new tab) accounts(opens in a brand new tab). Their tales point out the celebrated actor has spent many years preying on boys […]
5 essential methods males may also help finish sexual assault
If you happen to’ve paid any consideration to social media prior to now 24 hours, you’ve got seen #MeToo, the viral hashtag that girls have used to acknowledge, even in two easy phrases, that they’ve skilled sexual harassment and assault. SEE ALSO: Girls endure a lifetime of sexual harassment even earlier than they enter the […]
Need to cease males like Harvey Weinstein from ruining girls's lives? The answer is easy.
One other week, one other extremely highly effective man outed as a serial sexual predator. That is what I believed final Thursday when The New York Instances revealed an investigative story(opens in a brand new tab) alleging that Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein had sexually harassed and assaulted girls for years. SEE ALSO: Terry Crews had […]