Toni Nagy

It happens to every woman. You wake up and realize you're living a cliché. You're a good girl who is infatuated with a bad boy. You like him more than he likes you. He barely notices you exist, and he is obviously trouble waiting to happen. He's bound to demolish...

Most Americans have come to accept clichés such as "voting for 'the lesser of two evils'" and "there are no honest politicians." This paradigm not only disempowers voters, but perpetuates the problem. We abandon our personal responsibility to the political process by allowing corruption and corporate campaign finance dictate who...

If you are like me, when you saw the cover of TIME magazine this week, you had to look for a change of underwear. The image of this boy sucking the teat of his mother while standing on a chair was deliberately staged to shock and awe: especially...

Everybody wants their five minutes of fame. Now that reality TV and talent competitions are dominating the networks, there are more opportunities then ever for people to capitalize on. But there is a commercial aspect to a lot of these shows that seems to turn off those who view themselves...

Beauty may be only skin deep, but it is a great way to get ahead in the entertainment world. Considering that actors make a living from their flawless faces being projected on massive screens in high definition, there is some perverse logic to this madness. Yet in the music world...

In recent months there seems to have been a flood of polarizing and controversial articles related to mothering and so-called "women's issues." I find myself easily seduced by the sheer drama of the opinions expressed and drawn in by the subsequent backlash of women attacking women. But I am beginning...

If you are an unapologetic capitalist you will suffer less public scrutiny than if you are someone who is trying to do something meaningful with your life. When a project is socially responsible or provocative, critics will jump to pick apart the person behind it much more so then if...

Being a stay-at-home mom or a working mom is often tied to issues of feminism, and women judge each other harshly according to which path you take. Working mommies will accuse the stay-at-homes that they have lost their identity and are supporting a patriarchal and archaic system of...

In a new book The Seven Pearls of Financial Wisdom, authors Carol Pepper and Camilla Webster provide realistic recommendations for women on how best to manage, understand, maintain and grow wealth. Pepper and Webster approach the subject by looking at a woman's life holistically and creating tangible advice...

We often excuse the most atrocious behavior as "human nature," and dismiss any possibility for things being different. Nine out of ten Americans believe there will always be war because that is how we are hard wired. That a part of our animal instinct is to dominate and destroy others...

From the moment you find out you are pregnant, your potential to be annoying multiplies into one of those numbers only astrophysicists can understand. The second you realize you've obtained temporary freedom from your monthly menses, it's time to force your fetus-infested brain into understanding the difference between your personal...

To write a compelling memoir you either have to be an inexhaustible writer who can tell a story about even the most mundane events, or have had a totally extreme fantastic life so outrageous that a baboon proficient in sign language could tell your tale. It is a difficult genre...

There is an expiration date on my uterus, a "sell by" number on my sexuality and not much I can do to prolong it. A women's relationship to fertility has a complexity unique to the female experience because of the finite nature of it all. The biological reminder that overpowers...

I enjoy the moral superiority I feel when telling people I don't have a TV, so much so that I often forget how many TV shows I watch on Hulu. But I am a total snob about what shows I view, which makes me feel intellectual despite the added complication...

I grew up in a house where we ate rabbit on Easter and deer at Christmas. Not that my mom was anti-religion, but more because she had an ironic sense of humor. I was raised Catholic, we celebrated the holidays, went to church, but I was never told to believe...

If guys are going to parody shit girls say, it is only fair that girls make a video mocking shit guys say, except these girls don't have to worry about coming off as sexist because that doesn't make any sense. Ahhhhh... the advantages of being the lesser sex....

Nelson George's The Plot Against Hip Hop is a fictional novel that explores the possibility that there was an intentional scheme against drum-driven hip hop music and the culture that birthed it.

The origins of hip hop echo the history of the drum in African culture, and the drum...

I logged onto Facebook this morning and the first post on my news feed was a picture of a dead guy with his brains blown out. Now I have the image of this man's inner mind ejected over the concrete, with his body plastered in blood, haunting my being. There...

Human beings are by nature social creatures, but is that because we want to listen to other people talk, or because we want others to listen to us? I don't know about you, but I cannot wait until it is my turn again, and most of the time you are...

Although we women are innately adept at swallowing, it is a hard pill to choke down when guys claim we aren't funny. When hearing this I usually react by crying publicly, talking about my period, looking online for shoes, and then talking about my period while crying and trying on...