Yes Hillary, We’re Oppressed. BY YOU.

Remember Dexter’s Laboratory? The child prodigy with a secret laboratory that his bumbling family knew nothing about? In one episode, Dexter was annoyed by the fact that he had to study for his French test instead of playing around in his laboratory. To fix that problem, he came up with a machine that would play…

Ladies, Please Don’t Be Like Ashley Judd

Living in Mexico, I remember sticking out like a sore thumb. Blonde hair, blue eyes, VERY white—I was the epitome of obvious. I didn’t have a car, so to attend school (and later on teach preschool) I was often walking miles at a time or taking buses. That meant that for significant periods of the…

5 Lies Modern Feminism Teaches Our Little Girls

There’s absolutely nothing, nothing as relaxing for me than to curl up with a cup of tea and a really good classic movie. One of my favorites came on the other day: “Giant.” It’s a film about Texas cattle man Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) who meets and marries a girl back east (Elizabeth Taylor), and…

A Glimpse into Liberal Tolerance

I remember the very first time I got hate mail for something I wrote. I was 16 and had just landed a gig as a junior columnist at a local newspaper. I wrote about everything from school issues to exchange programs and cultural profiles—by and large it was pretty chill, uncontroversial stuff. I was so…