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(iStock) Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it from a range of perspectives. This week we’re talking about singlehood in America. Need a primer? Catch up here. Sarah Wright is the board chair of Unmarried Equality, which advocates for fairness and equality for unmarried people. Find her on Twitter:…
coins metadata inserted by kblog-metadata After Willem de Kooning Challenging the biological basis of sex and dispensing with the nature vs. nurture opposition ANNE Fausto-Sterling is professor of biology and gender studies at Brown University. In books like Myths of Gender and Sexing the Body, Fausto-Sterling pioneered the application of a feminist critique to biological studies of gender, adding…
This story is part of a partnership between MedPage Today and VICE News. If you find yourself alone this Valentine’s Day, we have a gift for you: knowledge that it could always be worse. Like way, way worse. A 17-year-old man presented to the emergency room with abdominal pain and a foreign body in…
I feel sorry for men on Valentine’s Day. It’s sexist of me, I know. The day isn’t gender-specific but my feelings are. They’re the result of observations I’ve made over the years since I was first made aware of the red envelopes, unlikely handwriting and whispering. The talk seemed to be a female thing. The…
In a detective novel, you begin in a state of ignorance and advance toward knowledge, clue by clue. The little indicators add up at last to a revelation that sets the world to right and sees that justice is done, or at least provides the satisfaction of a world made clear in the end. If…
Tinder has come to signify everything that is right, and wrong, with modern dating culture. Yep, you get good volume, but where’s the longevity? Well, despite shaping many fist-shaking headlines recently, turns out most of the world is actually looking for more than just face roulette. London-based Badoo is the top dating app across 21 of the world’s biggest…
For a long time now, Kanye West has existed simultaneously as a rap musician, an outspoken social critic (“George Bush doesn’t care about black people”) and a frequent and much-followed Tweeter. He veers from the mild (his love of fonts, praise for his wife, frequent photographs of fashion fittings) to the boastful (his new album is not the…
“My job entailed selling packets of women’s names, addresses, and phone numbers for $25.00 to men who were horny but lazy.” “Hello, this is Tracey. Which ad are you answering?” “Tracey. This is Bob.” The man paused briefly, and I could hear the furtive sound of rustling trouser fabric. Bob forged ahead: “I saw an…
This morning I went on Democracy Now to discuss my critique of “class-first” policy as a way of ameliorating the effects of racism. In the midst of that discussion I made the point that one can maintain a critique of a candidate—in this case Bernie Sanders—and still feel that that candidate is deserving of your…
Whenever I was on a really bad date, I found it comforting to know that, as a deaf person with a cochlear implant, I could enter a world of total silence if I wanted to, blocking out whoever was sitting in front of me. On this one particular date though, I had no choice. I’d…