A Friend's Story: When You Tell
A friend asked me to tell her story – how sexual harassment in graduate school continues to narrow her options decades later. […]
Category: misogyny
Boys to Men
“Boys will be boys.” This primitive rationalization is reactivating long stored, sometimes barely remembered wounds in women and men. When I was a teenager, my family didn’t have much money. Mom was a single parent to three expensive kids. As a teenager, I wasn’t very forgiving nor understanding of my mother’s struggles to keep me […]
Not Joking
Sitting at the coffee shop with my friends, I asked, “Should I write something funny or sappy in my blog today?” I was thinking that I had the themes for both types of posts. “Funny,” said my friend, the quintessential Southern Belle. Her husband just smirked across from us. “You couldn’t pull off sappy for […]