patriarchy
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How, if You’re a Man, to Deal With the Fact That You’re Probably Trash
The one thing I keep coming back to when thinking about Louis C.K. now isn’t the bizarre and abusive sexual habits revealed, in detail, last week by the New York Times—repeated forms of sexual misconduct that confirm the long-standing rumors about him and validate platforms such as Gawker, which first reported on this several years…
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Male Birth Control Trials Halted Because Of Side Effects. Good.
So it looks like we’re getting closer to a marketplace available effective male-specific birth control method. The latest trials of a male contraceptive have proven to be 96 percent effective in trials. This could be revolutionary as, right now, women bare the lion’s share of the birth control responsibility from costs to having to take…
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Be a ‘Real’ Man: Black Gay Man Shares Homophobic Experience in Nail Salon
I love everything about manicures: the soaking of my nails, the clipping of my stressed-out cuticles, the massaging of my hands, the polishing and drying—and the lotion that people can never seem to find anywhere else. The nail salon has been my home away from home since my undergraduate years in northeastern Ohio. It provided…
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Where Education Reform and Sexism Collide: Firing Female Teachers and Expelling Black Girls Props Up Patriarchy
Editor’s note: Once a month, this column will tackle broader questions about what the country should do about gaps in achievement and opportunity. Tucked away from the hoopla and ruckus of the Democratic National Convention at a quaint restaurant a few miles away, approximately 200 people gathered at a fundraiser for Rights4Girls to rally around…