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Home » sexism

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Posted inColumns & Opinion

Insecure, average-looking woman vents about ex-BF-to-be

by Dan Savage September 4, 2019August 18, 2021

Dan Savage advises an insecure woman upset by her partner’s attraction to “sexy suicide girls,” and more.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

How not to be “that guy”

by John Greenfield October 18, 2018August 18, 2021

Tips for men who want to make walking, biking, and transit a little less crummy for women

Posted inArts & Culture

Tootsie remains charming, even in the #MeToo era

by Marissa Oberlander October 2, 2018August 18, 2021

“Being a woman is no job for a man” still rings true.

Posted inFilm

The Wife’s a better conversation starter than a movie

by Ben Sachs August 21, 2018August 18, 2021

Rethinking the idea of the male literary genius

Posted inNews & Politics

These teenage girls are leading an exodus from rape culture this Passover

by Debra Filcman March 27, 2018August 18, 2021

Their new feminist Haggadah shows the way to a promised land of gender equality.

Posted inBlogs

From the archive: What we’ve learned in the year since the last Women’s March

by Aimee Levitt January 19, 2018August 18, 2021

Looking back on the year of #MeToo

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Yes, women are still getting screwed in Chicago theaters

by Deanna Isaacs March 1, 2017August 18, 2021

Whose voices are being heard? Actor and writer Kay Kron took on the role of social scientist to quantify the answer.

Posted inBlogs

Looking for certainty in allegations against the Wash U. men’s soccer team

by Michael Miner December 28, 2016August 18, 2021

Indignant male commenters react to the suspension of Washington U.’s men’s soccer team.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Don’t blame ‘identity politics’ for what went wrong in 2016

by Chicago Reader December 21, 2016August 18, 2021

We marginalized folks didn’t start this garbage fire.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

We don’t need ‘unity’ after Trump’s election. We need resistance.

by Derrick Clifton November 16, 2016August 18, 2021

He’s #NotMyPresident.

Posted inBlogs

No group voted ‘never Trump’ as strong as black women

by Derrick Clifton November 9, 2016August 18, 2021

Although black women were Hillary Clinton’s strongest block of support, in Chicago they expressed mixed feelings at the polls.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

How not to be an offensive jerk this Halloween

by Derrick Clifton October 24, 2016August 18, 2021

Don’t even think about going as a “bad hombre.”

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Performance artist to Chicago: Get off our areolas

by Derrick Clifton September 21, 2016August 18, 2021

Bea Cordelia thinks the city’s liquor-license law has a gender-bias problem.

Posted inBlogs

Fed up with sexual harassment, Chicago’s female comics call for industry blackout

by Brianna Wellen January 28, 2016August 18, 2021

Local nonprofit Women in Comedy encourages comics to boycott theaters, classes, and shows where they have felt unsafe.

At the Chicago Scene Boat Party, the largest “raft up” of the year at the Playpen, vessels are packed to capacity with booze and skin-baring party monsters.
Posted inCity Life

What lies at the bottom of the Playpen, Chicago’s floating daytime clubland

by Jake Malooley August 6, 2014August 18, 2021

What lies at the bottom of the Playpen, Chicago’s floating daytime clubland

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