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AP Kim Novak's Bid to Be Twice as Good
Hollywood's respectability politics are much the same as any other kind of respectability politics.
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Courtesy of Radia Perlman Radia Perlman: Don't Call Me the Mother of the Internet
The woman who developed the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol reflects on her illustrious career in math, computer science, and networking.
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Reuters Lots of People Who Support Gay Marriage Think Gay Sex Is Immoral
How U.S. attitudes on LGBTQ issues have shifted during the last decade
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Matt Sayles / Invision / AP 'Female Films Earn Money': Cate Blanchett's Awards-Season Crusade
The two-time Academy Award winner has spent the last few months tirelessly (and charmingly) reminding the media how Hollywood shuts women out of leading roles.
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HBO Cool Girls and Bad Men: The Week's Best Pop-Culture Writing
The most intriguing articles about entertainment we've come across in the past seven days
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Creating a 'Living Image' of a Transgender Woman
Writer and advocate Janet Mock on the importance of showing transgender lives in the daylight, and avoiding a focus on the "before and after"
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Evan Agostini / AP What Star Wars' Casting of Adam Driver Says About Hollywood
Girls' first breakout film star is a guy—further evidence that television shows are a more progressive, inclusive, diverse medium than movies are.
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Carly Kocurek 'Good for One Screw': A History of Brothel Tokens
The little coins are best understood not as sort of currency but as tchotchkes in the sexualized-coll
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Jason Cohn/Reuters How Schools Can Give Men the Skills They Need to Be Good Dads
Apprenticeship programs have the potential to help young men get better jobs and develop relationship abilities.
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AP A Glimpse Into 1970s Gay Activism
A remarkably frank examination of LGBT issues during the transformative decade between Stonewall and AIDS.
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Thrillseekr/flickr The Challenge of Leaning Out
One writer argues that we should combat the culture of long hours and intensive parenting by just doing less. Can it work?
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Darron Cummings / AP The Gender Gap in Olympics Coverage: Narrower This Year!
Researchers say NBC spent proportionally more time showing female athletes at Sochi than at previous Games.
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Ubisoft How Video Games Are Slowly, Quietly Introducing LGBT Heroes
By leaving protagonists' preferences open to interpretation, video games like Assassin’s Creed and Tomb Raider have been including characters not defined by gender or sexuality.
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Matt Rourke/AP Photo How Anti-Poverty Programs Marginalize Fathers
Based on decades-old stereotypes that unmarried dads are “deadbeats,” the majority of welfare programs almost exclusively serve women and children.
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Bernat Armangue / AP Thank You, Ashley Wagner: Skating Needs More Outspoken Women
Critics say her unfiltered comments and facial expressions are bad for the sport. As a former figure skater, I say she's simply being human—just like plenty of other athletes in her discipline.
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MLB.com A Whole New Way to Think About House of Cards: 'Throwing Like a Girl'
What "The West Wing for werewolves" tells us about political satire
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Snap Decision / Getty I Fought Back Against My College's Sexist Fraternity
The results were mixed.
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AP File Photo The Rise of the Single Dad
More than 2.6 million households in America are headed by a single father.
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HBO The False Depth of Dudes: Why Girls' Guys Are All So Ridiculous
Our roundtable discusses "Incidentals," the eighth episode of the HBO show's third season.
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Reuters Having a Gun in the House Doesn't Make a Woman Safer
Firearms have been touted as a great equalizer between the sexes. But in cases where self-defense matters most, women tend to find their own weapons turned against them.
