Screening for Gender
Published December 2, 2010
My take on the TSA flap: Why I’d rather be gazed at than groped. read the story in The American Prospect
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Poli Psy: Post-Hillary Feminism
Published June 18, 2008
For a while there — especially during the tense days between Obama’s victory and Clinton’s belated exit — it looked as if American feminism might not recover from the Democratic primary contest. The media were spotlighting feminist mothers and their “post-feminist” daughters bickering like, well, mothers and daughters. Hillary was holding hostage her “18 million [...]
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Poli Psy: “Man Enough”
Published January 31, 2008
A women’s magazine I used to write for kept a large three-ring binder filled with story ideas. One section was called “Emo,” though, this being a women’s magazine, all the features were about emotions. Most of them were negative ones, which, presumably, the right shoes or handbag would clear right up (See: Accessories, page 116). [...]
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Poli Psy: “A Father’s Tears”
Published December 6, 2007
The brochure is celestial blue with wafting clouds. Its cover is darkest, suggesting a lowering storm; each successive panel grows lighter. The logo is a dove. Last week’s two-day San Francisco conference “Reclaiming Fatherhood: A Multifaceted Examination of Men Dealing with Abortion” clearly hoped to move men in a heavenly direction. But the presentations’ titles [...]
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Poli Psy: “Honor Guard”
Published October 10, 2007
Don’t ask me if MoveOn’s Petraeus/”Betray-Us” advertisement in The New York Times was good for the left, the right, the president, the war, the country or the Jews. All I know is, it’s a sure sign of the creeping militarism of a political culture when you can’t insult a general without everybody leaping down your [...]