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The desire for a ‘normal’ sex life
In Babygirl, the age-gap affair faces off with the impossible sexuality of motherhood and marriage
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10
A year of mad women
And wanting
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9
Irreconcilable differences
On no-fault divorce and reckoning with state-level freedoms
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Amanda Montei
9
Trans panic is projection
Gender policing makes no one safer
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We need to remember the real threat to our pleasure
Is anyone taking women's disaffection seriously?
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3
It’s not the economy. It’s the misogyny.
What else is there to say?
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10
The great divide
Closing arguments in an election defined by misogyny and feminist refusal
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2
"When women defend themselves against violence, they are called crazy"
A conversation with Chelsea Bieker, author of the novel Madwoman
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3
Remember the patriarchy
In 'Blink Twice,' memory is the most powerful weapon women wield against a culture of forgetting
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What is motherhood writing for?
On parenting as PR for parenting
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Sara Petersen
3
On awakening out loud
Three years afters starting this thing, I've learned a lot about being a woman in public
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28
It's not you, it's marriage
Some dirty laundry
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The banality of white male rage, again
And affective labor on the debate stage
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2
Cow moms v. cat ladies
Ballerina Farm & JD Vance & the effort to pathologize women’s solitude
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Mad Woman
Mad Woman
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