Resident feminist HeatherN tackles the first round of questions in our new series, Ask the Feminist.
Ask the Feminist Answers: Definitions, Recommendations, and Media Violence Against Men
May 2, 2013 By 111 Comments
How Should I Handle a Rape That Happened in My Poly-Quad Relationship?
March 27, 2013 By 28 Comments
A man asks Eli and Josie for help with an assault that happened in a poly-quad relationship he’s in.
Curing What Ails Us
March 22, 2013 By 5 Comments
Julie Gillis looks forward at the ways in which we can help heal ourselves and others after the horrors of Steubenville and other assaults in the news. Plus, an inspiring video.
The Healthy Sex Talk: Teaching Kids Consent, Ages 1-21
March 20, 2013 By 150 Comments
A list of parenting action items, created in the hope that we can raise a generation of children who have less rape and sexual assault in their lives…from toddlers to teens.
La Platica Saludable de Sexualidad: Enseñando Consentimiento a Nuestros Hijos, Edades 1-21
March 20, 2013 By 1 Comment
Una lista de temas de acción creada en la esperanza que podremos criar una generación de hijos que tengan menos violaciones y asaltos sexuales en sus vidas.
Questions that Plague Me in the Wake of Steubenville
March 18, 2013 By 16 Comments
Julie Gillis grapples with three questions about good and evil and how to affect change in the wake of Steubenville.
Steubenville: Crime, Punishment and Actual Change
March 17, 2013 By 1 Comment
Julie Gillis is glad for the convictions in Steubenville, but believes that for meaningful change to happen, we must make changes on profound levels.
The Necessary Evil of Humanizing Rapists
March 17, 2013 By 59 Comments
Heather N investigates the ways in which calling rapists “evil” only serves to prevent us from making the changes necessary to prevent rape from happening.
Steubenville: “It Wasn’t Violent”
March 17, 2013 By 28 Comments
Julie Gillis wonders if it’s possible that one of the defendants in Steubenville didn’t realize the violence of what they did to an unconscious girl.
What Makes A Man?
March 14, 2013 By 29 Comments
Inspired by advocate, educator and porn pioneer, Buck Angel, Julie Gillis ponders what it is that makes a man.
Raising Healthy Boys Means Letting Them Run a Little Wild
February 12, 2013 By 29 Comments
Julie Gills discovers that the ability to create and innovate come out of free play, useless silliness, and time spent on open thought.
Men Deserve Real Empathy, Not Deference
December 23, 2012 By 49 Comments
Julie Gillis challenges a New York Times Op-Ed that insists that women should show deference to the men who feel they are losing privilege in a changing world.
Empathy, Radical: How Cassian Elwes Used Compassion to Help Thwart Danger on an Airplane
August 22, 2012 By 5 Comments
Julie Gillis believes we need more empathy and less disposability regarding our veterans, citing a Hollywood producer’s amazing story of helping a man through an apparent psychological breakdown on a JetBlue flight.
Taking Children From LGBT Parents Isn’t Kidnapping??
August 9, 2012 By 6 Comments
Julie Gillis is appalled that the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer advocates kidnapping in the case of LGBT families.
American Action Forum Thinks Crackdown on Prison Rape is Too Costly
June 21, 2012 By 41 Comments
Julie Gillis has no words to describe her horror at the American Action Forum’s stance that the Department of Justice’s plan to reduce rates of prison rape is too expensive.
Brian Presley and Melissa Stetten: Two Jerks Don’t Make a Right
June 11, 2012 By 127 Comments
Joanna Schroeder resents that passive-aggressive live-tweeter Melissa Stetten is being held up as some sort of model of feminist activism.
“You would never know from sex ed classes that people actually enjoy sex.”
This Comment of the Day was by wellokaythen on the post How We Can Improve Sex Ed for Boys?