Women and society as a whole had a great day recently, when the US Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that regulated  abortion clinics so stringently, the rules would have run them out of business. (Blog 6/30/15) Texas insisted the regulation was intended to protect women’s heal

While I’m standing at the lunch counter at the retirement center, a woman whom I’ve known for several years greeted me with surprise.  Had I grown and inch or two she wondered.  By her recollection, she’d always been taller than I.  She was right, of course.  But age had don

I have a confession. Since I joined the retirement center, I’ve gained 6 lbs.  My doctor didn’t seem alarmed.  “A little extra weight as a person gets older is good,” she shrugged. Easy for her to say.  She doesn’t have to fit into my jeans.  Some extra pounds might be t

After my blog of May 19, 2016 in support of Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency, a reader sent me a column by Gail Collins that appeared in the New York Times. (Click)  The gist of her remarks were a warning to the presumptive Democratic candidate that she avoid wrapping her i

Young white women are dying.  No, not from assaults and beatings, though that continues at a high rate.  The current epidemic affects women between 25 and 55  years of age.  Suicides are half the reason.  The other reason is drug and alcohol overdose.  Most of these women live r

Think gender won’t play a role in the upcoming presidential election? Just wait and watch the media to see what they  say about Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits or hair style.  As journalist Joan Veneochi observes, Hillary will receive more scathing remarks than will Trump for his �

Gender diversity matters and never more so than in the current election for President of the United States.  To those women who make light of gender’s importance, I’ll say again:  Wrong. (Blog 3/23/16)   Equal pay is a woman’s issue but it also plays as an economic one.�

Labiaplasty may be one of the saddest words I’ve ever heard and only just learned.  It refers to plastic surgery performed to alter the folds surrounding the female vulvae with the intent of giving them a clam-like appearance.  In the case of a birth deformity, the procedure has i

4chan is a web site where a number of beta men hang out, according to writer Angela Nagle. (‘The New Man of 4chan,” by Angela Nagle, The Baffler, No. 30, 2016, pg. 64-76.)  4chan is a image board website and a beta man is the opposite of an alpha man — someone seen as virgi

Abuses against women abound in the world, not only in times of war but as a condition of ordinary life.  Pakistan’s bill to ban child marriages  recently died because the Council of Islamic Ideology “declared the legislation un-Islamic.” (Excerpted from the Washington Post by