According to the New York Times, the gender gap among voters is nearing historic highs. With a reported 18-point gap between male and female voters, it's possible that women will have the deciding voice on the nation's next president. The gap is just the latest development that has...

I love P!nk, always have. As an angsty teen I superimposed onto my the life lyrics of "Don't Let Me Get Me," cheered her feminist appeal for more future female presidents and fewer video dancer wannabes in "Stupid Girls," and played her empowering break-up anthem "So What" so loud the...

Rand Paul has done some, let's say, strange things during his campaign to become the junior Senator from Kentucky. Highlights include insisting that the Americans with Disabilities Act should be abolished in favor of letting local jurisdictions decide if people with disabilities deserve equal rights. He...

Every smart girl knows that when the flip-flops and sundresses come out, summer romance isn't far behind. Whether you plan on a different date for every warm night of the week or to go Grease style and have a sizzling summer fling, here are some tips to stay safe and...

Last week, Feministing blogger Chloe Angyal penned a piece for the Guardian laying out her answer to the question, "Why don't young women identify as feminist?" Renee Martin of Womanist Musings wrote in the same publication a response explaining why she, as a woman of color,...

If only network TV would lead with this news: according to a University of Minnesota study, "hooking up" -- casual sex with more than one partner -- is NOT in itself damaging to one's psychological health.

Just like the "free love" generation before us, millennials figured this...

Though the New Orleans Saints' decisive victory left little room for Monday morning quarterbacking, the same cannot be said about the Super Bowl ads. CBS and its advertisers served up enough offensive fare to give everyone with an opinion an opportunity to take a swing - and they're not holding...

New Year's Eve - a sparkly dress, a glittering party, a bubbly drink, and if you're lucky, a kiss that lingers minutes past midnight. What better way to send off 2009 (good riddance!) and ring in the next decade?

Yet, anyone who's ever experienced a New Year's Eve knows the...

When I started college, I had never been to a party where there were drugs or alcohol. Within the first week, I was rolling a keg down three flights of stairs and watching a friend get it on with a fraternity president while standing in three feet of dish soap...

Every year when I was in high school in Lubbock, Texas, we were herded into the auditorium for a lecture from a local youth pastor about the birds and the bees.

At the culmination of every presentation, the pastor pulled a girl up onstage, produced a dirty, dingy toothbrush from...

The chastity movement has grown up and gone off to college, which is no wonder, really, since legislators recently decided to focus attention and federal money on keeping unmarried adults abstaining until at least their 29th birthday. The members of Harvard's True Love Revolution, a campus chastity club,...

While America is focusing on the evolving drama of the Spitzer sex scandal and the MySpace musical styling of "Kristen," the young woman who he paid for sex, the CDC has announced that one in four American teen girls has a sexually transmitted infection. It's fitting that the...

While Juno is trading a hospital gown for Oscar couture and Jamie Lynn is dodging photographers in Louisiana, the American public is grappling with the new visibility of the teen baby bump and turning back to the media for answers.

Actual teen voices, the only ones that can really...

This month we learned that teen birth rates are on the rise for the first time since 1991.While this alarming statistical shift should inspire concern or anger or action, it has received little more than wary acknowledgment from any of the 2008 presidential hopefuls (on either side of the...