Salty observations about life, love, and living abroad
There was an early episode of The West Wing in which the President had to choose a course of action after a deadly terrorist attack. Ready to unleash the full might of the US military, he was eventually persuaded to take a more measured approach. Why? Because while carpet bombing another country into oblivion may have made him feel better for a minute, it wasn't going to... Continue Reading →
I talk a lot (no, really, A LOT) about my passion for women's issues. I talk a lot (A LOT) about how important it is to change the way we think about women, talk about women, and treat women. I talk a never-ending lot about systematic sexism, about reproductive rights. But I've never explained why... Continue Reading →
The foreign minister in India just made headlines for a newly published list of tourism tips. They run the gamut of normalcy, common sense mingled with observance of local custom, but with an interesting caveat for female tourists. Don't wear skirts. After a string of high-profile rape cases in India against foreign women, (not to mention... Continue Reading →
Dear boys, I do my best. As a feminist raising boys, I go out of my way to have an open and ongoing dialogue with you about differences, about gender and as you get older, about sex and consent. But I can't change biology. And I can't single-handedly change the world we live in and... Continue Reading →
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