The gender discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart is over ten years old. It began in 2000, with a woman named Betty Dukes, who had then been employed as a greeter for nearly six years. She alleged...
Time magazine's annual Person of the Year attracts far more attention than almost anything else the magazine publishes. This year it was Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and subject of a...
The Big C is making quite a splash in cable programming. Laura Linney stars as Cathy Jamison, a high school history teacher diagnosed with Stage-IV melanoma. Cathy eschews chemotherapy and opts not...
In the wake of enormous tragedy, it is left to each of us to analyze the coverage of stories that startle even the most hardened of media consumers. Shaquan Duley, 29, is a South Carolina resident...
I always love when things I've written turn back up in my Internet "social circle"--mentioned in a blog I read, reblogged on Tumblr weeks or even months later, forwarded on Twitter by someone I...
“Girls Gone Wild” goes to various campuses and bars where women are partying and encourages them to reveal their bodies and perform for the cameras. In most of the filmed scenes, these women are...
When is a duck not a duck? Seemingly if it’s a grizzly. If you paid attention to United States “feminist” writing in May and June you may have noticed a wee bit of activity over the use of the...
The modern world is filled with scientific innovations that have advanced the quality and longevity of life. There was a time when women who were infertile had two options: adoption or nursing an...
A Fandango email popped up in my inbox today. I’d used the service Saturday afternoon to purchase a ticket for Eclipse, the third film in The Twilight Saga. It asked, “How did you like ?”...
First he came for the Holocaust survivors, and I did not speak because I was not a Holocaust survivor. Then he came for the Jews, and I did not speak because I was not a Jew. Then he came for...
