If you include the whole spectrum of sexual and physical abuse from causing discomfort to perpetrating assault, then every woman you know has suffered — your mother, sister, wife and lover — at one time and to some degree.
Tag: feminism
AMPLIFICATIONS: What to wear?
Not that she approaches school dances in the same manner as I or my friends did at her age—we used to get dolled up, experiment with make-up and nail polish, and hope to meet boys.
Amplifications: Women’s rights are human rights
Women are still not protected by the Constitution. The Equal Rights Amendment has never passed.
EDGE WISE: Peering beneath the mask of masculinity
The film, ‘The Mask You Live In,’ establishes clear connections between what one expert called “the pandemic of violence in America” and the repressed anger and hurt of boys and young men, as well as a narrow definition of masculinity that equates “being a man” with physical force, sexual conquest, and economic success.