I found out on Monday that one of my teachers from Phillips Exeter, Christine Robinson had died back in June ( Read more... )

Here's the thing about our house: nothing gets done unless I either do it or project manage it.

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I don't mind being CEO of the house, but some things should be obvious without requiring a memo about them.

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A feminist ally knows there are no motherfucking gnomes. And lays in a supply of TP rolls without being asked.

Source - Feminist ( Read more... )

I read this on LinkedIn the other day in an article where an Indian VC was giving advice to Indian entrepreneurs and using the recent flame out of a startup that they’d financed as a cautionary tale:

There was no support system - no financial controls, no infrastructure and processes. Nothing that would normally form the chassis of a company. Just ( Read more... )

Growing up - much like, I am going to estimate, 100 percent of the population - I felt stifled by the stereotypes and expectations of my gender. Even from the privileged position of being a straight, white, cisgender woman, I still walked around in a constant panic that I was doing femininity wrong. (I tripped every time I put on heels. I played ( Read more... )

An African American business woman from Long Island was drugged and locked in a hospital psyche ward for eight days because first police, and then doctors could not believe her high-powered career was realWhy is it so hard for the NYPD to believe that a black woman could own her own Mercedes and have a successful business career ( Read more... )

What The Fuck?

Will the sexism never cease? Hasbro is releasing 24 Star Wars toys, and only one of them is female (Padme). How the hell can you release 24 Star Wars toys and NOT have a Princess Leia figure?!?!?! There are two Lukes, two Boba Fetts, three stormtroopers, and three droids that are NOT Threepio or R2-D2 ( Read more... )

It really distresses me that sexism like this still exists in this world ( Read more... )

I was watching Pacific Rim on HBO last night, and the next movie they were going to show was the Tom Cruise flick that came out this year, Edge of Tomorrow. I’m not a huge fan of Tom Cruise, not since he left Nicole Kidman and went through his couch jumping phase. But I do like his co-star Emily Blunt, who I’ve seen in five or six roles so far. So ( Read more... )

Did you see this back in September?

A NYC Bartender's Powerful Open Letter To The Hedge Funder Who Allegedly Grabbed Her AssYes, it happens all the time. Waitresses, bartenders, and servers get groped by guys all the time. Especially drunk guys. I find hope in the fact that more and more women are taking to social media to let guys know that ( Read more... )

Today I am thankful for being enfranchised. I am thankful for the brave women who braved abuse and arrest to pave the way for my generation to be able to vote: Jane Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Julia Ward Howe, Lucretia Mott, Helen Keller, Margaret Sanger, and many others (Wikipedia has a nice listI am also thankful for the League of Women Voters. At ( Read more... )