Yet just because benevolent sexism is so common, and the harm it causes is often unintended, doesn’t mean that the negative impact is any less real.
You Don’t Have to Hate Women to Be Sexist: Everyday Ways You May Be Sexist Without Knowing It
Loving and respecting women has nothing to do with whether or not your actions are sexist, and you certainly don’t have to hate women to be a sexist.
Loving and respecting women has nothing to do with whether or not your actions are sexist, and you certainly don’t have to hate women to be a sexist.
4 Racist Stereotypes White Patriarchy Invented to ‘Protect’ White Womanhood
You know how you have to act differently around them?
You know how you have to act differently around them?
How Women Are Pressured Into Being Sexy, but Punished for Being Sexual
Focus on constantly challenging the notion that a woman’s value should be judged by her sexiness to begin with.
Focus on constantly challenging the notion that a woman’s value should be judged by her sexiness to begin with.
The Glorification of Masculinity in the Queer Dating Scene Is Totally a Thing – But No One Seems to Want to Talk About It
I want to see a community where all women can be empowered to make their own decisions about their appearances and their bodies, free of being assigned arbitrary value based on their gender expression or sexual activities.
I want to see a community where all women can be empowered to make their own decisions about their appearances and their bodies, free of being assigned arbitrary value based on their gender expression or sexual activities.
10 Ways Men Can Combat Sexist Entitlement in Public
Sadly, though, many men saw it as a chance to question and challenge women’s experiences with misogyny rather than to listen.
Sadly, though, many men saw it as a chance to question and challenge women’s experiences with misogyny rather than to listen.
3 Ways to Take Care of Yourself When You Live With Toxic Parents
Unless the situation is abusive or dangerous, you often feel like you have to make the best of it.
Unless the situation is abusive or dangerous, you often feel like you have to make the best of it.
5 Myths About Gender Neutral Parenting
The whole point of GNP is that is doesn’t force any preconceived gender norms onto a child in the hopes that they can find their own comfort spot on the continuum we call gender.
The whole point of GNP is that is doesn’t force any preconceived gender norms onto a child in the hopes that they can find their own comfort spot on the continuum we call gender.
10 Things You’re Actually Saying When You Ignore Someone’s Gender Pronouns
It can’t be emphasized enough: Coming out as transgender or any variation thereof is downright terrifying.
It can’t be emphasized enough: Coming out as transgender or any variation thereof is downright terrifying.
Here’s What It Would Look like if We Treated Our Sons How We Treat Our Daughters, From Birth Through College
Here in this parallel world, the rules are different because gender roles are flipped.
Here in this parallel world, the rules are different because gender roles are flipped.
4 Ways to Find out if Your Partner Is Using Their Depression as an Excuse for Controlling Behavior
People with depression are no less immune to abusive behavior than people without depression. However, when an abusive partner has depression, things get complicated.
People with depression are no less immune to abusive behavior than people without depression. However, when an abusive partner has depression, things get complicated.
Pansexuality 101: It’s More Than ‘Just Another Letter’
For some, the LGBPTTQQIIAA+ acronym (better known in some circles as “Queer alphabet soup”) can be intimidating in its all-inclusivity.
For some, the LGBPTTQQIIAA+ acronym (better known in some circles as “Queer alphabet soup”) can be intimidating in its all-inclusivity.
This Is Why Poor People Can (And Should) Have Nice Things
Having “nice things” is sometimes just another survival mechanism for poor people living in our consumerist, technology-saturated world.
Having “nice things” is sometimes just another survival mechanism for poor people living in our consumerist, technology-saturated world.
What Happened When This Fat Woman Wore a Bikini
It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we’ve been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on “perfect” bodies.
It has everything to do with what we expect from women, what we’ve been told by the fashion industry, and the value we place on “perfect” bodies.
You Don’t Need to Be Leading Marches for Your Activism to Matter – Here Are 5 Reasons Why
If we are critiquing how and when folks are choosing to be involved, we also need to be sure that our practices as activists are not exclusive – this is divisive and antithetical.
If we are critiquing how and when folks are choosing to be involved, we also need to be sure that our practices as activists are not exclusive – this is divisive and antithetical.
6 Reasons to Encourage Your Child to Make Their Own Decision About Their Haircut
As long as it’s not a medical decision that involves a child’s actual safety, it can be empowering for children to make choices about their own bodies.
As long as it’s not a medical decision that involves a child’s actual safety, it can be empowering for children to make choices about their own bodies.