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The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember…

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Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out…
Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being…
Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool,…
The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without…
There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was…
Yes, the more successful you are—or the stronger, the more opinionated—the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people…
It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether…
Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means…
Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn’t matter how much we love them. They hate us”
Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a…
My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

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Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate — Ray Charles
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I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. — Ben Kingsley

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