I found an interesting article on Slate the other day. I’m curious to hear your thoughts My bad sex wasn’t rape The outcry over a recent “Girls” episode startled me. What happened to a woman’s sexual agency? BY ANNA MARCH Defining regret over a consensual experience as rape conveys the message that women who experiment with…
Read moreBoys Are At The Back Of The Class
Boys are lagging behind girls in school; on average, they get worse grades, take fewer advanced classes and are less likely to graduate. To find out why boys are taking a back seat in education, host Michel Martin speaks with Christina Hoff Sommers, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of ‘The War…
Read moreLean In?
I have no problem with encouraging people to go and follow your dreams. I have no problem with encouraging others to explore new careers they might now be aware of. I have no problem with thinking outside the box. BUT….I have a major problem when we put career over family. We now have a new…
Read more‘The road to high pay is a toll road.’—Warren Farrell
Why do women earn less than men? Women are systemically underpaid in part because they consciously or unknowingly make choices in their careers that lead to being paid less down the line, an author and educator says. Warren Farrell, author of a half-dozen books including Why Men Earn More, told the CBC’s Lang & O’Leary Exchange recently that his…
Read moreWhen is a sperm donor a father?
After putting an ad on Craigslit, an agreement was made between Jennifer Schreiner, Angela Bauer and William Marotta. William was to be the sperm donor but to not have any parental rights. The couple chooses to have the child with William. Before they made this arrangement, the couple had 8 children though adoption and the foster…
Read moreFREE TO BE
In her book Delusions of Gender, psychologist Cordelia Fine notes how early this all begins. In preschool, she says, children become “gender detectives,” because they are organized by gender and referred to by gender constantly. “Everything around the child,” Fine writes, “indicates that whether one is male or female is a matter of great importance.”…
Read moreI Have Female Privilege
I found this on the Good Men Project blog and think it is a great conversation starter. I think Rachel Goodchild raises a lot of great points and many of them hit home. Times have changed. You may not see it now, but the pendulum has already swung. Books like The Richer Sex by Liza Mundy lays…
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