Let Caitlyn Jenner have her moment, would you? She debuted in all of her glamorous glory yesterday on the cover of Vanity Fair and within hours, Facebook was full of critiques: Caitlyn is playing into the gender binary. Caitlyn is playing into patriarchal beauty standards. It’s the same thing that happened to Laverne Cox, actually, […]
We’re all born with the ability to eat intuitively, to listen to our body’s needs, to eat nourishing foods when we’re hungry, to stop when we’re full. It’s our default setting; our natural state. Even just writing that out right now, it’s such a “duh” that I can’t believe how easy and common it is […]
“Any Patrick Bateman news?” I jokingly asked my friends Rick and Beth. “Last time I heard anything about Patrick Bateman was right before his wedding,” said Rick. I nearly choked on my water. “HE’S MARRIED?! TO WHO?” He and Beth exchanged an “oh shit, we thought she knew” look. “That girl. The other one he […]
A few years ago, I complained to a girl friend about how my then-boyfriend was getting on my nerves. I told her how we would be hanging out in his apartment on the weekend and I would ask for some “alone time” to read or go online. He would say okay, but couldn’t go for […]
At this point, it’s as cliche as U-Hauling and flannel shirts. It’s a storyline on “Orange is the New Black,” the plot of a teen show on MTV, and the premise of millions of questions posted to advice forums across the internet. Whether predatory or pining, some lesbians live their love life like Sisyphus, doomed […]
I woke up last Wednesday, and took to my twitter, preparing myself to ingest yet another round of bad news. It had been a trying week, with more hateful, scary events taking place every day. While I knew I’d find evidence of this in my twitter feed, I expected to find solace in the kind […]
I’ve had my share of unfortunate incidents. There was the time I visited a friend in Boston and within six hours was hospitalized with a stomach virus. Another time, while out dancing with friends, my hand collided with someone’s glass, shattering it and tearing my hand open. The day before my summer internship in New […]
As a feminist, kinky person and sex commentator, I am the target audience for Jillian Horowitz’s xoJane essay “I’m a Sex-Negative Feminist” — and that’s exactly the point. Part of the site’s “Unpopular Opinion” series, I can only surmise that the essay, like others before it, was written largely with the intention of riling up its […]
Ask and ye shall receive. We inquired about ballsacks and got all kinds of useful information, plus some extra tidbits we weren’t expecting. Here are the most fascinating things we learned about the ever-elusive body part. We thank you all for your generosity and candor. 1. Some guys’ ballsacks twitch while getting a blowjob. 2. […]
