I’ve always felt feminism to be like a block party: euphoric, emancipating, jubilant, and open to all. I often fear that many women in my generation think about it instead like a speakeasy: closed, password-protected, and open to the already enlightened. The narrowing of feminism has presented itself in subtle and not so subtle ways.…
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We don’t find out who gets the roses, though—that comes next week. Instead, we go back to the studio for the rest of the Men Tell All special. Luke is invited out on stage first, to a smattering of applause. I could get into the specifics of every insane thing he says, but really it’s…
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If we’ve learned anything from the presidency of Donald Trump, it’s that more often than not rich men get away with it—whatever it is. For all the overdue justice that #MeToo secured, the last 20 or so months have seen countless men scrutinized and then…exonerated. From Trump to Brett Kavanaugh, the process tends to follow…
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We’re more than halfway through season two of Big Little Lies, and I have to ask: Who even are the men on this show? Did you know there were men on this show? Last night the second annual Amabella’s birthday-party episode aired, and while I was struck by the glitz and glamour of the Monterey…
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It wasn’t a glass ceiling, but something big shattered this week in Miami: every single stupid idea we have about what it means to be “electable,” to look “presidential,” to command a room. At the first Democratic presidential debates of the 2020 presidential season, the women won. Yes, all of them. On the first night,…
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Chris Cuomo with his wife, Cristina Greeven Cuomo, and their three children Courtesy of Chris Cuomo One of the first cases that came up after Roe affirmed that women could make their own decision. Planned Parenthood v. Casey asked whether or not a woman had to tell her husband before she got an abortion. Why?…
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