The Rising Price of Perfectionism: Freshman Girls and Anxiety
The headline in the New York Times this morning: Record Level of Stress Found in College Freshmen. UCLA does this survey of hundreds of thousands of 17 and 18 year-olds every summer, and the results...
View ArticleThe Cautery of Hate: on Breakups, Psychoanalysis, and the Healing Power of Rage
I was reminded of this story by an exchange with a friend today. Dealing with the end of an intense romantic relationship is painful, regardless of the terms on which that relationship took place....
View ArticleOne Drop
This post is making the rounds and stirring folks up: Why I don’t want to have biracial children. The “One Drop Rule” previously was used as a method to keep people who had Black heritage down. Once an...
View ArticleFeminist Coming Out Day: a brief report, and a note on the connection between...
Happy Ash Wednesday to one and all. We had a great turnout last night at our Feminist Coming Out Day Panel here at Pasadena City College. (If you click here and scroll down, you can see me with two of...
View Article“If I Were Thinner, I’d Have the Right to Expect More”: on perfectionism and...
This topic came up in my Men and Masculinity course yesterday, and an earlier version of this post appeared at Healthy is the New Skinny this morning: It’s not news that girls are feeling more pressure...
View ArticleOf orgasms, oxytocin, and myths of misery: UPDATED
My friend Monica sent me a link to this MSNBC story: Post-coital blues plague a third of young women. Based on a very small sample of 200 young Australians, researchers at the Queensland Institute of...
View ArticleStanding with the Sluts
This past Sunday, the world’s first “Slut Walk” took place on the chilly streets of Toronto, Canada. The official site is here. The march was organized in response to the infuriating remarks of a...
View ArticleSome laughter with the lovemaking, please: on porn, performance, and deadly...
In the past two weeks, I’ve heard from three friends of mine all struggling with the same issue. Each is a woman in a monogamous relationship with a guy who uses internet pornography. None of these...
View ArticleTop Ten in 2011
Since 2005, I’ve shared my Top Ten Posts of the year each December. (Here’s 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, and 2006.) But I rarely post original content on this blog anymore, as so much of my work now...
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