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Prostitution is not empowering for women; it is a symptom of addiction to masculinity and need for domination. “We need to eroticize equality,” says the noted feminist.
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People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist,” says Steinem. “What does that mean? We’re clearly not ‘post’ either.
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It’s not helpful to talk about men and women as if they were fixed and binary entities, says the celebrated feminist. “The purpose of feminism is … to understand that […]
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Feminism has proven that women can do men’s jobs, but it hasn’t yet proven that men can do women’s jobs—like nurturing a child. This is both a libel to men […]
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The female chess champion says that in order to succeed in the world of competitive chess, you have to develop masculine skills like competitiveness and analytic thinking.
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“Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination and that it is natural and comes to think that the only way to survive […]
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When Sarah Palin branded herself as a “mama grizzly,” she was unaware of the supreme irony: grizzly bears are the animals that most embody reproductive freedoms, even reabsorbing their own […]
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A conversation with the sex advice columnist.
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The idea that one instance of infidelity should ruin a relationship is a new—and misguided—notion.
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Despite giving people sex advice for a living, Savage screwed up the “birds and the bees” talk with his own son. Like most adults, he forgot to explain the concept […]
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For the most part, raising a child with two fathers has been totally normal, says the advice columnist. But it has led to some hilarious situations.
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There’s a lot of bad advice that tells teens to come out regardless of their family situation. “Not everyone is in a position where that it wise or safe,” he […]
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The advice columnist, normally quite critical of religion, tells us how a Catholic priest helped his mother come to terms with his homosexuality.
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Religious people have to reconcile themselves to ignore what the Bible says about gay people—the same way they ignore what the Bible says about polyester, lobster, figs, and women.
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The first African-American grandmaster traces his obsession with chess to a high school friend who kept crushing him at the game.
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The game trains you to focus on what your opponent is thinking and planning—a discipline that is useful on the chessboard and in the boardroom.
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“It’s a discipline that you practice,” says the Jamaican-born grandmaster, “and you can’t help but develop your mental powers.”
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The top African-American chess player defied the conventional wisdom that you need to learn the game in preschool to become a grandmaster.
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Players from Brooklyn want “to rip your heart out, cook it, and eat it later.”
