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DOUBLE STANDARD
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POLITICS
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Paul Ryan Called 'Genius' While I'm 'Fraud'
By
Ron Dicker
The congresswoman-elect called out a double standard in which she's been harshly judged since her election to the House.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Ed Sheeran Responds To Comments That He Looked Like A Slob Next To Beyoncé
By
Elyse Wanshel
A photo of the two musicians performing together in elaborately different outfits sparked a debate about double standards on Twitter.
Getty
ENTERTAINMENT
Alexis Ohanian Calls Out Double Standard Between Serena Williams And Brett Kavanaugh
By
Jenna Amatulli
The Reddit co-founder said it was "bulls**t" that Williams was "held to a higher standard to keep her emotions in check than a Supreme Court nominee."
Mario Anzuoni / Reuters
COMEDY
Jimmy Kimmel Shreds Donald Trump's Double Standard On Russia And Iran
By
Lee Moran
"People are wondering why the president would threaten them with nuclear war, when he let Vladimir Putin practically run his fingers through his hair?"
Fox News
MEDIA
Watch Fox News Personalities Slam Obama And Praise Trump Over The Same Thing
By
Ed Mazza
Now that's a double standard.
POLITICS
Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump: Unlikable vs. Unpredictable
By
John Tsilimparis, MFT
, Contributor
Psychotherapist, Professor, Author
What makes people want to run for president anyway? It's a thankless job that entails relentless pressure, criticism, slander and hatred from large numbers of fellow Americans including political colleagues from both parties.
POLITICS
How to Tell a Male Political Candidate from a Female Political Candidate
By
BJ Gallagher
, Contributor
Author of 30+ books, including an international best-seller, "...
NEW YORK
Immigrant Small Businesses Victims to Double Standards
By
Ron Kim
, Contributor
Husband, father, and lawmaker.
Almost 1,000 small business owners and workers, mostly of Chinese and Korean descent, are traveling to Albany for the first
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SPORTS
Charlotte Observer Publishes Another Garbage Letter About Cam Newton
By
Erick Fernandez
No major newspaper would ever print a letter like this about Tom Brady.
RELIGION
The Tragedy of Shootings and the Double Standards that Follow
By
Dalia Mogahed
, Contributor
Chairman and CEO, Mogahed Consulting
In the same week we had an attack on Planned Parenthood and one on a centered for disabled people. The first with a clear ideological motive or so it would appear, yet no pro-life leader was asked to condemn these actions.
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WOMEN
The Offensive, Sexist Joke That Is Candy Carson vs. Michelle Obama
By
Ashley Mae Hunt
, Contributor
| iowan | grammar nerd | listener of audio books | feminist | ...
Obama has "DirectTV," Carson has "cable," and apparently, the American people have no class. Just because these women have husbands that have chosen a life in the public eye, serving the public, does not make them fair game for sexist jokes and offensive comparison.
WOMEN
What My Onstage Nip Slip Taught Me About Nipple Shaming
By
Ali Owens
, Contributor
Writer, speaker, Empowerment Strategist
I pretended not to even notice the fact that my shirt was literally falling off my body in front of a group of people. I could feel my anxiety level skyrocket.
Oh my god. There's a legitimate chance that my naked breast will be exposed to everyone in this room if I don't stop playing right now.
WOMEN
The Purity Standard Is Outdated and Unfair. And It's Time for It to Go
By
Ali Owens
, Contributor
Writer, speaker, Empowerment Strategist
If I could sum up the era of my life in which I was discovering my sexuality in one word, that word would be:
shame
. Despite the personal nature of this story, I feel compelled to share it, because I fully believe that no young woman should have to experience such intense shame -- yet the sad truth is, most do.
WEDDINGS
I Didn't Keep My Maiden Name
By
Brita Long
, Contributor
Founder of Christian feminist blog Belle Brita
I'm a feminist. I didn't keep my maiden name. But I didn't change my last name either. If a woman doesn't change her last name upon marriage, she does not keep her maiden name. She keeps her
last
name
.
PARENTING
Should We Teach Girls to Push?
By
Zanthe Taylor
, Contributor
Writer, lapsed dramaturg and fiercely opinionated citizen
From now on, in addition to zipping my lip on the sidelines, I am going to seek out opportunities to encourage my two daughters to push more--legally, of course. Life, after all, can be a contact sport.
POLITICS
Yes, She's a Real Person: Can We Please Stop Hill Bashing and Move On to Real Issues?
By
Judith Barnett
, Contributor
Lawyer/international trade consultant specializing in the Midd...
In campaign 2016, some things have changed, many have not. Hillary has served as a U.S. Senator and the U.S. Secretary of State, helping thousands, maybe millions, of people to create, reconstruct, and resurrect their lives. And yet people keep asking, who is this woman?
WOMEN
Feminism and Its PR Problem
By
Annie Grayer
, Contributor
Middlebury College Senior. Twitter: @AnnieGrayer1
My mother's generation, propelled by the scars of my grandmother's generation, raised their daughters to feel like they could do anything. I'm starting to believe that girls my age misconstrued anything to mean everything.
POST 50
Helen Mirren Drops F-Bomb When Calling Out Hollywood's Ageism
By
Yagana Shah
Like Us On Facebook | Follow Us On Twitter | We've come to know that Dame Helen Mirren is not afraid to speak her mind ... and
WOMEN
Tough Cookie
By
Small Answers
, Contributor
The backstory behind big life choices that you don't normally ...
I wish knowing women and men are perceived very differently for the same behavior in the workplace didn't leave me questioning whether that is what had happened to me. Being forced to contend with my own ambivalence about having "unfeminine" qualities has, however, allowed me to find some new perspective.
POLITICS
Double Standards in Our Foreign Policy -- and That's Just the Way It Is
By
András Simonyi
and
Richard L. Morningstar
, Contributors
Pragmatism however should not be an easy way out of the responsibility for human rights and dignity that we, as democracies, share in the world. We should not suggest that we do not have an influence, when we actually do.
MEDIA
The New Yorker's Dreck Problem
By
Lynn Messina
, Contributor
Author, Prejudice & Pride
The
New Yorker
called my writing dreck. It did not level the slight directly at me but lobbed it wholesale at the self-publishing community of which I'm a member.
PARENTING
Dear Working Father
By
Reem Kassis
, Contributor
Former business consultant turned mama, writer, and cookbook a...
Your identity changed, your responsibilities increased, you were no longer the most important person to your partner and your needs and feelings took a back seat. You and your life were entirely changed, yet all this was overlooked.
TEEN
It's Okay to Know (or Not Know) How You Want to Shape Your Life
By
Isabel Song
, Contributor
Freshman at UC Berkeley
Even with all those unknowns, I'm not letting them -- or anyone else -- keep me from chasing after my dreams, my
wants
. Just because there's a possibility I'll change my mind one day isn't justification for not pursuing my current dreams at all.
PARENTING
Sexually Active Teen Girls More Likely To Be Bullied Than Similar Boys, Study Finds
By
Alexandra Svokos
Bullying has evolved in recent years, lead author Hailee Dunn noted in a conversation with The Huffington Post. Students
WOMEN
'The List Of Rules For Women' By Jay Smooth Gets Everything Right
By
Nina Bahadur
"I know that women are not supposed to sleep around all the time, because then you’re a slut and the reason men hate you
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