The latest issue of New York Magazine has a seven page story on the longterm fallout from the Pill’s legalization in the 1960s and it’s subsequent infiltration into mainstream American sexual culture. The magazine’s cover photo pictures a woman sticking out her tongue, a white pill stuck to it, evoking similar imagery from the Sixties [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Elizabeth Gilbert’
Childless and happy
Posted in Health, Marriage & family, Media, Politics, Sexuality, tagged acid, birth control, childlessness, Elizabeth Gilbert, happy childlessness, motherhood, New York Magazine, Pregnancy, the pill on December 2, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Order sEXISTs shirts and stickers
Posted in Media, tagged Elizabeth Gilbert, Rumpelstiltskin Campaign, sexism, sEXISTs on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Too often, sexism is invisible to us, whether it’s too geographically distant or we’ve just become immune to witnessing women treated like objects instead of like humans. In 2010, naming the enemy is half the battle. In her new book Committed, Elizabeth Gilbert used a Rumpelstiltskin simile applicable here. The story of Rumpelstiltskin is about [...]
Jezebel responds to my post on Auntie Briagde
Posted in Marriage & family, Media, Statistics, tagged Aunts, childless women, Elizabeth Gilbert, Jezebel on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Anna S. writes on Jezebel after reading my post on the “Auntie Brigade” (inspired by Elizabeth Gilberts new book Committed) that she agrees childless women should be more valued in society, not necessarily for taking care of or inspiring others but also for their own accomplishments. Commenters tell Jezebel stories of important aunts in their [...]
Are childless women happy?
Posted in Health, Marriage & family, Media, Parenting, tagged childless women, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, single women on March 10, 2010 | 19 Comments »
Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert says childless women are just fine The husband, the kids, the picket fence, you know this scene. Women’s biological clocks are desperately ticking. We’re on a quest to secure a man so we can reproduce, because becoming mothers will make us truly happy and fulfilled. While childless men manage to find [...]
