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In 1970 Alix Kates Shulman wrote an essay titled “A Marriage Agreement” and instantly became one of the voices of the burgeoning Women’s Liberation Movement. She was ten years into her second marriage when she came up with a set of rules that she and her husband agreed upon to make their relationship more equitable.  [...]

A recent Gallup poll confirms that people in U.S. are increasingly identifying with a conservative ideology: 40% as opposed to 36% with a moderate ideology and only 21% with a liberal one. This may help to explain why so few people identify with feminism: it, too, is seen as liberal.
Why is it that liberals are [...]

There’s a possibility that there may be another wedding in my family this year, so I’m thinking about weddings again. The last wedding was a year and a half ago and if you do a search for “weddings” on this blog you’ll find the posts I wrote around that time about how to put together [...]

According to Richard Cohen of The Washington Post, Tiger Woods has given men a bad name by his philandering ways. As if men needed Tiger Woods for that. Cohen himself writes that men are conditioned to “spread their seed around” while women are conditioned to mate with the alpha male and mother the resultant children. [...]