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  • No, you DON'T talk to you mom too much

    I fail to see this as so much a ''Gen Y'' thing as it is a return to ''pre Gen X'' values. I was born in 1959. Growing up, my entire family - grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, both paternal and maternal - lived in the same town or in nearby towns. My mother talked to her mother every day by phone, and often talked to her sisters as well. ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by StellaBlue on May 9, 2009

  • Where is a discussion about Father's Rights?

    Up front allow me to say that I am a clear supporter of abortion rights under any and all circumstances. I was raised in a strongly feminist household and support equal rights for women and do not believe they have been achieved yet. And yet I was deeply troubled by the language Linda used in this article in its absolutism about it being only ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by AJIntrocaso on August 13, 2008

  • Steinem, Morgan and what happened to feminism?

    Dear Dahlia, Emily, Hanna, and all, I was born in the same year as Ms. magazine. As soon as I could read, I eagerly snatched up each new issue and tore the “Stories for Free Children” from the centerfold. (My favorite, which must have dated from somewhere around 1979, had to do with a child named ‘X’, who had no evident gender ...
    Posted to XX Factor by denada on February 17, 2008

  • XX Factor is NOT anti-feminist

    Or rather, the women who post in XX Factor are not anti-feminist. I can see a debate over whether the existence of the XX Factor is anti-feminist or sexist (is lumping them all together ghetto-izing women's voices or making them more clearly heard?) but my interpretation of their posts (the vast majority of them anyway) doesn't lead me to ...
    Posted to XX Factor by KRM on February 14, 2008

  • Hillary Clinton won't lose because of sexism

    Here's an interesting statistic: According to the Pew Research Center, Democrats view Hillary Clinton slightly more favorably than Barack Obama (79% vs. 73%). [And for those keeping score, that's 72% vs. 72% for males and 83% vs. 74% for females.] In other words, it's not that voters detest her, it's just that they want to vote for Obama. ...
    Posted to XX Factor by milandv on February 5, 2008

  • the fringe blog

    Dissing fringe classes on a fringe blog? This is almost as outrageous as Lithwick's complaint in this space the other day about a news correspondent being relegated to the land of lip gloss. Does the XX Factor (not to be confused with the XY Factor--I mean Trailhead) not qualify as a land of lip gloss because you people still wear lipstick? My ...
    Posted to XX Factor by griffothy on January 17, 2008