Posts Tagged anxiety

By Alexandra Brodsky • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

A love letter to anxious ladies.

Black women are an electoral voting force.

White belly dancers and cultural appropriation.

The Army’s top sexual assault prosecutor has been suspended after assault allegation.

Over the trend of black “it” girls.

Filibuster for military sexual trauma.

Hate to link to TMZ, but they’ve got the most quotes straight from Crossfit on their transmisogyny.

Brooklyn elementary school ignored repeated abuse of student.

A love letter to anxious ladies.

Black women are an electoral voting force.

White belly dancers and cultural appropriation.

The Army’s top sexual assault prosecutor has been suspended after assault allegation.
By Sesali B. • 10 years ago

Elle magazine examines gendered anxiety in men without thinking critically about gender

Elle magazine had a great opportunity to talk about how patriarchy and assumed gender roles hurt men. But they didn’t take it. Luckily, I have no problem doing it for them.

Vogue is usually the only magazine I read every month. But I was drunk on a Sunday afternoon (completely normal on the DC brunch scene) and I picked up the February 2014 copy of Elle magazine for my monthly dose of “shit I can’t afford.” Let me be clear, I don’t read fashion magazine for feminist theory. But if you are going to try to take a stab at gender analysis, don’t half ass it.

But that’s exactly what Elle did in “The Anxiety Closet.” I should have known something ...

Elle magazine had a great opportunity to talk about how patriarchy and assumed gender roles hurt men. But they didn’t take it. Luckily, I have no problem doing it for them.

Vogue is usually the only magazine I read ...
By Katie Halper • 12 years ago

Yet another study says abortion doesn’t pose a mental health risk

Anti-choice activists, I hope you’re sitting down. It turns out that, contrary to your wishful thinking, having an abortion does not increase the chances a woman* will suffer mental health issues.

Of course, some of you anti-choicers won’t be convinced by this evidence because it was done by scientists, which you’ll find sketchy. But just so you know, a study, commissioned by the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, part of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK and funded by the England’s Department of Health, reviewed 44 studies from 1990-2011 on the relationship between abortion and mental health and concluded,

“The best current evidence suggests that it makes no difference to a woman’s mental health whether she chooses to ...

Anti-choice activists, I hope you’re sitting down. It turns out that, contrary to your wishful thinking, having an abortion does not increase the chances a woman* will suffer mental health issues.

Of course, some of you ...