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Memo To Candidates: How To Talk About Rape
Tweet Elected officials (especially men), here are the only things you should say when the issue of rape comes up in an interview or debate: 1. Rape Is horrible and unacceptable. 2. A woman who has...
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Why Mitt Romney Lost: Empathy
Tweet Last night, Barack Obama won re-election because of one big reason: empathy. More specifically, he and the Democratic Party were more successful at expressing empathy than Mitt Romney and the...
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Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies
Tweet For this week, we would like to introduce Yolo Akili’s brilliant article: “Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies, in which he looks at how gay men treat women and their bodies in a way that...
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We Know This Story: It’s Her Fault
Tweet It’s impossible to ignore the media coverage over the last several days about General David Petraeus resigning from his job heading the CIA. We invited Lisa McIntire to offer some insight into...
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Stuff We Should Stop Doing: Calling Women Cougars
Tweet I remember my first real exposure to seeing a woman referred to as a “cougar.” It happened when Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher went public with their relationship. Gossip magazines and talk shows...
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Trapped: An Apology To Men
Tweet The title of this column may seem misleading to my regular readers. So, let me be clear from the beginning: this column is not my attempt to apologize to men for their difficult, horrible lives....
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Why Are We Referring to Women as Girls?
Tweet I hope you’ll take a look at our inaugural Q and A Column, in which I discuss the dilemma of referring to women as “girls,” as well as explore the definition of feminism and the origins of my own...
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Love and Loss: Honoring Your Friends in Everyday Life
Tweet Last June, writer and director Nora Ephron passed away at the age of 71. What was remarkable to me was the immediate and public response to her passing. Within hours her friends had composed...
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I Love Feminist Warren Buffett
Tweet I’ve always loved and admired Warren Buffett and one of the greatest pleasures in my life is having had the opportunity to meet him a few times. In an exclusive essay for Fortune magazine that...
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Overcoming Disconnection and Loneliness
Tweet This column was originally posted on MariaShriver.com last year. I’m re-posting it since it’s been a year since I adopted CC. During the past year, I have been hit with a feeling I was previously...
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