After Twenty-Eight Years, I Am Finally Saying It: I Don’t Owe You A Smile.
There’s nothing like a smile to brighten somebody’s day – if the smile is freely given. But how do you feel when someone else tells you to smile? Especially if that person is bigger than you are, a...
View ArticleI Don’t Owe You A Smile, part II: The Curious Failure of Sweatpants
I was hurrying to an assignment downtown on a chilly day last week, and a man passing me on the sidewalk stopped as I approached, looked me up and down and said, “Mmm!” as if he’d just bitten into a...
View ArticleI was sexually harassed. And I’m responsible.
“I’m a hugger.” NPR host Michel Martin’s “Tell Me More” segment on her July 31st show asked, “Do women have a responsibility when men misbehave?” Yeah, a lot of women don’t talk about sexual harassment...
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