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What Has Been Found Guilty in Steubenville?

March 17, 2013 By Noah Brand 6 Comments

An entire set of unspoken assumptions has been dragged out into the light.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: adolescence, alcohol, assumptions, drinking, rape, rape culture, social norms, Steubenville, Steubenville rape, teenagers

Your Marriage Isn’t Typical

January 7, 2013 By Gint Aras 32 Comments

Sadly, our most common criticisms of marriage reveal much more about the critics than the state of contemporary romance.

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Hollywood Heroines and the Liberation of Men

December 7, 2012 By Noah Brand 17 Comments

Women’s roles in movies are getting more diverse and interesting. This is good news for men.

Filed Under: Good Feed Blog Tagged With: A.O. Scott, assumptions, film, film roles, gender, movies, Noah Brand, pop culture, sexism, Storytelling, women in movies

Proud to Be an American

October 26, 2012 By Kyle Carpenter 1 Comment

Only by traveling abroad does Kyle Carpenter appreciate what it means to be an American.

Filed Under: Assumed Identities, Featured Content, The Good Life, Travel Tagged With: American, American culture, American image overseas, American pride, American tourists, Americans abroad, assumed identities, assumptions, british, Canadian, Challenges, English, lifestyles, misidentification, native English speaker, privilege, Switzerland, U.S. citizenship, ugly American, United States, values, world travel

Why They Call It Intersectionality

October 25, 2012 By Ally Fogg 6 Comments

Ally Fogg provides a powerful metaphor for the traffic life throws at us from different directions.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Featured Content Tagged With: Ally Fogg, assumptions, Caitlin Moran, Chloe Angyal, gender enforcement, girls, hanna rosin, intersectionality, Lena Dunham, prejudice, privilege, race, Racism, sexism, social justice

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