Bossy Women’s Dance Club
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been called “bossy”. Or “intimidating”. Or how about “too” anything as in “too loud”, “too angry”, “too pushy” and, my favorite, the generic insult “too […]
Tag Archives: sexism
Invitation to Discomfort
For the first time since the slaughter of the children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, hearing news made me cry. Make no mistake there has been a nonstop […]
Job vs Career
When I tell the story of my career path I often use the image of a mosaic. I sometimes use the words “Once upon a time…” to help bridge the […]
Guest Rant: The Positive Case for Hillary Clinton
I am privileged to have some really smart friends who often write things I wish I had said myself, or from a perspective outside of mine. Today I exercise my […]
Thank you Donald Trump
Donald Trump is the best thing to happen to American women since Seneca Falls. In my work I get to facilitate conversations about implicit bias (racism, sexism, classism etc.) usually by […]
“Tell us what you really think”
There are lots of ways to shut down women when they are speaking. For me the one that stings the most – even more than being called bossy, intimidating, strident […]
Abortion in Ohio
Moral restrictions on medical procedures. That is the framework of the anti-abortion movement and other conservative positions. My God says “No”, therefore it should be “No” for the whole country. […]
I think its hormonal.
This was the answer given to the question “Why can’t men who have a lot of power keep their pants on?” The conversation was about the Petraeus scandal and resignation […]
Labels
Sometimes labels are a drag, like when it allows someone to reduce you to a single characteristic, and sometimes they are useful, like when a single word can convey your […]
Stay-at-home
I was reading an article the other day on the “new trend” of dads being primary caregivers which is trotted out as a new trend in the news cycle every […]
Blue people
It has taken me years to no longer cringe and blush when a well-meaning person mentions the “blue people”. You know, the blue people that come up whenever selection process […]
