For some years, my beauty moisturizer has been petroleum jelly.  A woman on Facebook reacted in horror when she read my confession. Petroleum jelly clogged pores and had other negatives, she said. In reply, I sent her an article about the many dermatologists who approved of the produ

While insurrectionists were storming the Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021, another skirmish was playing out in publications like Women’s Wear Daily (WWD) and Vogue. The question, if not weighty, was heated.  Why was Kamala Harris, our Vice President-elect, wearing snea

The punishment for women who fail to assume a submissive role in society can be rape and death.  That has been the mode since Biblical times. In India, recently, a case of rape and death made national headlines. The victim was a 19-year-old girl from the  Dalit community. (Untouchab

A theory exists in the world of finance that women’s hemlines rise and fall with the stock market.  As I wear sweatpants, the theory is of little use when I buy stocks, but journalist Sam Reed has applied a similar line of reasoning to Amy Coney Barrett’s wardrobe during her Sena

While  Covid-19  has been kind to no one but big pharma, women are facing serious economic consequences because of it.  The fall 2020 edition of Ms magazine (pg. 9) reports,  “the number of women in the workforce fell below 50%” for the first time in 40 years.  Women who are

While it’s not cool to judge a woman by her outward appearance, there was a time when a First Lady’s wardrobe could claim as much media attention as a presidential executive order. First Ladies tended to wear outfits by  American designers and three of the most recent of them ful

Predicting the future is difficult because it’s hard to assess how much “nostalgia” from the present or the past will be carried forward.  Poland, for example, is shaping its future by taking a giant leap backward.  Women’s rights recently took a hit when the country withdre

Recently, newscasters were making light of Donald Trump’s self-congratulatory response to a dementia test he took, mistaking it for one that measured I. Q.  Despite his confusion, I’m happy for him, and for the nation, that he passed. His niece, a clinical psychologist, has alrea

The Harry Potter gang has had a falling out over the definition of woman. Daniel Radcliffe one of the stars of the famous Hogwarts series says a transgender woman is a woman.  His creator, so to speak, J. K Rowling thinks otherwise. “If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attra

An article appeared on Facebook recently that quoted a preacher who in 2019 sermonized that educating women was a sin. His sentiment reflects the values found in the New Testament, but the idea that women should be subservient to men probably goes back to the dawn of human existence.