One side wants women to go back. The other has people telling women to move over. And somewhere in the middle, women are asking a perfectly reasonable question: When do …
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When Freedom Starts Sounding Like Obedience: Why Some Women Call Gender Ideology Extreme Conformity
Women spent generations fighting to get out of boxes. Now we’re supposed to celebrate somebody handing us a new set of instructions? Well, hold on a minute. Because I remember …
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10 Lessons Women and Girls Can Learn From Pam on Martin: She Wasn’t Everybody’s Sweetheart, and That Was the Point
updated from January 2026 There was a time when being outside was practically a second education. I grew up in that generation. The one that makes young people watching Stranger …
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Who Gets to Define Womanhood? Why Some Feminists and Womanists Are Returning to Sex-Based Language
I remember when we started having more conversations about why Black women needed to be named specifically instead of always being grouped under women of color. Now, there is nothing …
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When Women Refused to Perform Approved Femininity: 10 Women Who Challenged the Rules
There has always been somebody ready to tell women how to be women. And isn’t it something how often those instructions have come from people who weren’t the least bit …
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Every Time Women Make Room for Themselves, Somebody Tries to Make It About Men Again (audio ep.)
“Society falls when older persons don’t plant trees they will never sit under” Remember when people used to joke that young women went to college to earn their “MRS. degree”? …
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Somebody asks where you want to eat, and your mind goes straight to what everybody else will enjoy. You know who dislikes spicy food. You remember who complained about the …
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Being Angry Does Not Make You Like the Person Who Hurt You
You hear your own voice getting firm and immediately wonder whether you have become cruel. Perhaps someone crossed a boundary. Perhaps you have explained the same problem six times. Yet …
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Women Exist Before a Man Comes Up with an Explanation for Us
Back in 1993, a young wife named Lorena Bobbitt severed her husband’s male part. When Lorena went on trial, she had to disclose something she did not want to share. …
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How Much of Your Abuse Story Do You Have to Tell?
You can tell someone that you had a painful childhood without handing them the whole house key. Some people hear a small disclosure and immediately begin opening doors. Who was …