We’ve all made this mistake at some point in our lives. — It’s easy to think that Ellen Chung, Jonathan Gerrish, their baby daughter, and their dog died from something sinister. When their bodies were first discovered on August 17, 2021, with no obvious signs of trauma, investigators ran through a list that included lightning, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, cyanide exposure, illegal…

The Trumpian Dystopia Continues — It’s hard to believe there was ever a time when a woman could just go to the doctor without finding an adult male to vouch for her. My neighbor is usually around, so he said he’d call the office and tell them I wasn’t a “woman of low moral values”. …

We act like 300 million individuals who only care about themselves. — I can’t remember the last time I saw a United States flag that was fully raised. At some point, they were lowered to half-staff and they just stayed that way. Every time we thought it was safe to raise them, something else horrible happened. The level of apathy surrounding gun…

First of all, I’d just like to say, “I’m sorry.” And I say that with a degree of sincerity that can only come from being a woman who traps spiders in cups and carries them outside to continue their hairy, horrifying, multi-legged lives. I’m sorry, frog, that you were murdered…

Sheila Trafalgar-McNamara is at work on a major retrospective of women in American micro-politics. She hasn’t looked at the manuscript in months, but she thinks about it sometimes when she’s petting her cat, Geraldine Furraro. Tyler Bamby is a Ph.D. student in economics at Harvard. His hobbies include masturbation, getting…

What is with the guys who can’t look you in the face because their eyes are glued to your breasts? Or worse — what is with guys who do the darting thing, where their eyes bounce up and down like ping pong balls while they’re talking to you because they’re…

It’s about the Right’s ongoing campaign to drive women out of the workforce. — I know this is going to come as a shock, but sometimes birth control fails. It’s not because a woman is a bad person, or secretly trying to snare herself a man. It’s because stuff breaks, even a pill. It’s possible to forget. Everyone thinks the agenda behind banning abortion…

It’s hard to believe I could think any less of him than I already do, but apparently there’s no bottom to this particular elevator shaft. He’s scheduled to have liposuction and he’s paying $10,000 for it. I have several problems with this. (A) He can’t provide me with the most…