Is it just political expediency or do Cheney and Kinzinger truly deserve to be punished by conservative metrics? — It’s no secret that politicians on both sides of the aisle often do things of questionable integrity in order to achieve the results that they want. Sadly, this type of rationalization almost seems to be a part of the job. However, the Republican National Committee (RNC) may be seen by…

Until then, they thought I was just another suburban wife — I’ve been thinking for a while about opportunities to be more open with the people in my life about who I really am — a pansexual and polyamorous woman, but as I recently said in Dipping My Toes Into Pride, “A few close friends are supportive, but what I’ve mostly…

Put your focus back where it belongs, little girl, on the plight of men. — A man emailed me last week essentially asking me why I was focusing so much on men preying on women — sexually harassing them, grooming them, etc., in a story I’d written about feeling entitled to act on one’s attraction to a younger person. The story was called I’m Sometimes…

If you are spouting patriarchal scripts, you are selling everyone short — A couple of days ago I wrote a story about why so many men abandon their children. The subtitle was, Yet another way that patriarchy harms men. My premise was that a culture that doesn’t believe that real men should be nurturers robs them of the opportunity to really spend…

Both literally and figuratively — Even before I went to the nail salon the other day to get a pedicure, I’d already decided that Dipping My Toes Into Pride was going to be the title of this story. When I got to the salon I discovered I could make that literally true. I could actually…