If all you have is a hammer then everything becomes a nail. I recently read this New York Times piece about Pete Buttegiege and his maleness. The article featured several women who aren’t running for president and their insights into the career paths and outlooks of women in office. They asked these women questions about…
Read moreKeeping Harvey Weinstein’s Secrets, Part 1: Lisa Bloom
Allred-Bloom were NEVER about representing the voiceless victims. Lisa Bloom and her mother are narcissistic, self-promoters. It’s all about exposure and money. They’re for sale to the highest bidder. Controversy keeps their names in the media. Last week, our colleagues Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey published a book documenting their investigation of Harvey Weinstein….
Read moreCultural Appropriation
Is is cultural appropriation for Audra McDonald or Kathleen Battle to sing Opera? Living Colour to play metal music? Teena Marie to sing and rap in Square Biz? Darius Rucker to sing country? Tower Of Power to play funk? Eminem to be one of the greatest rappers of all time? What about a Hasidic Jew…
Read moreBill, O’Reilly/Cosby/Clinton
So………Bill Cosby is villified and people like this idiot are making $18,000,000 a year. Tell me, who has a legacy worth saving? A legendary comedian who influenced thousands of others, a man who revolutionized the way black images are shown in TV and film, a man who gave millions to several institutions of higher learning…or…
Read moreIce Cube Might Have Dinner With the President
Is there a tension between the real-world concerns you have as a parent and the anti-police attitude you express in some of your songs? I think that if you haven’t broken the law, there’s nothing wrong with complying with authority. “The thing is: Don’t get shot. Don’t give ’em a reason to put their…
Read moreWhen Women Become Men at Wellesley
As a follower of gender politics, I find this article fascinating. It is interesting to see this whole “gender” thing crumble under its own weight. I am a Howard University graduate. A HISTORICALLY “black” university. That isn’t the case anymore. All kinds of people attend that school. Yes, it is majority brown skinned student body…
Read moreAn 8th Grader, a Gun and a Bus Rider in the Way
“Some may do it because they don’t have that leadership at home, and they just want to have people around that they feel comfortable with.” This kind of stuff has been happening for decades. It is a sad truth that few want to acknowledge or point out. The first question I had when I read…
Read moreU.S. Women on the Rise as Family Breadwinner
An excerpt from a New York Times article by CATHERINE RAMPELL Women are not only more likely to be the primary caregivers in a family. Increasingly, they are primary breadwinners, too. Four in 10 American households with children under age 18 now include a mother who is either the sole or primary earner for her family,…
Read moreStudy of Men’s Falling Income Cites Single Parents
An excerpt from a New York Times article by BINYAMIN APPELBAUM: The decline of two-parent households may be a significant reason for the divergent fortunes of male workers, whose earnings generally declined in recent decades, and female workers, whose earnings generally increased, a prominent labor economist argues in a new survey of existing research. David H….
Read moreDoes Hookup Culture Hurt Women?
An excerpt from here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/11/15/does-hookup-culture-hurt-women.html NOV 15, 2013 10:00 PM – BY PEGGY DREXLER Women say they’re happy having no-strings sex, but new research casts doubt on how ’empowering’ casual trysts really feel. In the current season of Parenthood, Berkeley freshman Drew develops a crush on a girl in his dorm. He tells her how he feels, but she…
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