Here are a few statements about women that are stated as facts. Some of them are patently untrue while others have at least a kernel of truth to them. I’ve added some generalizations of my own in the comments. See what you think.

Women are bad drivers. I discuss this in my February 11, 2010 post, [...]

Generation Diva: How our obsession with beauty is changing our kids.
The Beauty Breakdown: What a lifetime of cosmetic maintenance will cost a modern diva.
Unattainable Beauty: The decade’s most egregious retouching scandals.
Through the Looking Glass: A former child model on the perils of growing up in front of the camera.
Heidi Montag, 3.0: Eleven things that deeply [...]

Nora Ephron recently said that she is a director, not a woman director. “When you make a movie, there is not the remotest sense on a day to day basis that you are not exactly the same as anyone else who directs a movie.” But Abbie Cornish , who worked with Jane Campion in “Bright [...]

Naomi Wolf wrote The Beauty Myth in 1991 about “how images of beauty are used against women.” Almost 20 years later, Michelle Goldberg wonders if anything has changed. In her December 22nd article on The American Prospect website, she asks the question: “Are impossible beauty standards a subconscious cultural reaction against women’s growing political power?”
I’ve [...]

Being a feminist is like being a union member: no one wants to be one, but everyone wants to reap the benefits of the work that they do.
Feminists have been instrumental in getting women the right to vote (let’s face it, men wouldn’t have given them that right when they did if it hadn’t been [...]