I went out with a dude recently who, when we were discussing where we’d go to dinner said straight out, “Just so you know, I’m paying for everything.” I raised an eyebrow—he’s plenty aware of my feminist sensibilities—and he joked: “Consider it reparations...
Recently I had a talk with a teenage girl about being a woman in a male-dominated world. She’s a smart high-schooler who has a lot of questions that, although she doesn’t know it, basically boil down to “How do I live in the Patriarchy?” What should she do or not do to win social...