That didn’t last long. We just saw a record number of white women, women of color and young people run and win in the 2018 midterm elections, which was decided, in part by the largest gender gap in decades. Headlines heralded “The Year of the Woman,” and photo-ops captured the heady enthusiasm of women voters …
As last week’s Kavanaugh hearings erupted into a full-on opera of white male rage, a friend of mine warned men on Facebook that “today, almost all women in America are one bad conversation away from killing you.” That sentiment has been echoed by an onslaught of heartbreaking revelations of abuse—and heart-affirming calls to action from …
Sometimes you really don’t want to be right. In June, I wrote an op-ed for The Post, with the headline “Why can’t we hate men?,” offering a robust critique of the pervasiveness and corrosiveness of male power. I argued that the logical consequences were women’s anger and a deep need to embrace women’s leadership, while …
This month in The Washington Post, Suzanna Danuta Walters published an op-ed called “Why Can’t We Hate Men?” Walters is a professor of sociology and director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University, and also editor of the gender-studies journal Signs. Her op-ed has generated thousands of comments; drawn dismay, outrage, or ridicule in other publications and …
It’s not that Eric Schneiderman (the now-former New York attorney general accused of abuse by multiple women) pushed me over the edge. My edge has been crossed for a long time, before President Trump, before Harvey Weinstein, before “mansplaining” and “incels.” Before live-streaming sexual assaults and red pill men’s groups and rape camps as a …
Almost 18 years ago, on a sunny Mother’s Day, about a quarter of a million people converged on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Provoked by a shooting at the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center in 1999, the march spawned satellite events throughout the country in that year, and on the first anniversary the following …