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Wait, am I a good person?
The question everybody is asking Google.
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Jessica Bennett
Show me your Man Cave
Really!
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March 2024

Hot girls read Judith Butler
At least, that's what the internet tells me. An interview with the high priest of gender theory about their new book and more.
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Jessica Bennett
The Hidden History of the MILF
Yes, really!
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Jessica Bennett
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What Was the ‘Girlboss’?
Ten years after the term shot through the zeitgeist, the woman who coined it is ready to bury it for good.
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Jessica Bennett
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Wait, what's an 'Imaginationship'?
We're together... you just don't know it yet. Or so says TikTok.
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Jessica Bennett
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February 2024

Writing is Like Knitting Wool
Talking creativity, book-writing and gender politics with bestselling author Peggy Orenstein. Her latest is "Unraveling."
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Jessica Bennett
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Peggy Orenstein
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Debunking 90s Sex Myths w/ Emily Nagoski
Happy Valentine's Day! I asked the sex educator and bestselling author, whose new book is "Come Together," to tell us all the ways my generation is…
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Jessica Bennett
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Emily Nagoski
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Not Lebanese, Blanche. Lesbian!
Revisiting a famous episode of The Golden Girls, and the evolution of an enduring gay joke.
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Jessica Bennett
Wait, what's a horny shrimp?
The new 'Mean Girls' movie is nicer. Teenagers are not.
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Jessica Bennett
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January 2024

The Audacity of E. Jean Carroll
Her lawsuit against Trump was about more than defamation. It was about the worth of a woman, long past middle age, who dared to claim still had value.
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Jessica Bennett
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The Satisfaction of Watching Trump Be Muzzled
A dispatch from a federal courtroom, in the case of E. Jean Carroll v Donald Trump
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Jessica Bennett
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