Dan Savage advises an insecure woman upset by her partner’s attraction to “sexy suicide girls,” and more.
Tag: sexism
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How not to be “that guy”
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
“Being a woman is no job for a man” still rings true.
Posted inFilm
The Wife’s a better conversation starter than a movie
Rethinking the idea of the male literary genius
Posted inNews & Politics
These teenage girls are leading an exodus from rape culture this Passover
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
Looking back on the year of #MeToo
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Yes, women are still getting screwed in Chicago theaters
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
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
We marginalized folks didn’t start this garbage fire.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
We don’t need ‘unity’ after Trump’s election. We need resistance.
He’s #NotMyPresident.
Posted inBlogs
No group voted ‘never Trump’ as strong as black women
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
Don’t even think about going as a “bad hombre.”
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Performance artist to Chicago: Get off our areolas
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
Local nonprofit Women in Comedy encourages comics to boycott theaters, classes, and shows where they have felt unsafe.
Posted inCity Life
What lies at the bottom of the Playpen, Chicago’s floating daytime clubland
What lies at the bottom of the Playpen, Chicago’s floating daytime clubland