In the eight years since Love Island first crashed onto our screens like a reality TV wrecking ball, it’s become a cliche to describe it as “toxic”. “Toxic relationships”. “Toxic bullying”. Most of ...

I have the right to be diminutive, pretty, and sweet without becoming a tradwife.

THE NUMBER OF terms and identities under the LGBTQ+ umbrella is ever-growing, allowing more and more people to describe their sexuality with words that make sense to them. One word you may not have ...

It is likely no accident that women across the country have found themselves defecting to more traditional family arrangements in the last 20 months. Despite their numerous adverse effects, Covid ...

We hear a considerable amount about toxic masculinity but far less about toxic femininity, and some doubt that it exists. First, a definition: Women expressing stereotypically “feminine” traits such ...

Recently, I talked with a former male student of mine who had been hearing and reading more about “toxic masculinity”: what it is, how it can be expressed and its implications and consequences.

The kind of femininity that Stanford University accepts and encourages is very masculine. Admittedly, this is a meaningless statement, at least at a first glance: Aren’t femininity and masculinity ...

A few months ago, my four-year-old son went to a classmate's birthday. The party was superhero-themed and the loot bags were packed with cute little superhero trinkets, including temporary tattoos.

It was just a symposium at San Francisco’s University of California Medical Center, but 1,200 students turned out for it, cramming the 500-capacity auditorium and spilling over into another building ...

Just days after French screen icon Brigitte Bardot passed away peacefully at the age of 91, I found myself wandering around the Molitor pool, the very place where the bikini she made famous first made ...

We hear a considerable amount about toxic masculinity but far less about toxic femininity, and some doubt that it exists. First, a definition: Women expressing stereotypically “feminine” traits such ...