Tag: Identity
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I Don’t Ever Want To Get Married – Am I ‘Woman-ing’ Correctly?
Marriage should be a choice, not an expectation.
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There’s Nothing Empowering About Those ‘Body Positive’ Sports Illustrated Covers
Beauty certainly isn’t “cookie cutter” or “one size fits all” and seeing this (not so) ground-breaking idea finally appearing on the covers of an iconic beauty magazine gives it even more commercial validation for all those women out there who have never considered themselves to be ‘conventionally’ beautiful. And yet, as I looked at these…
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Equalism: The Feminist Alternative?
A/N: This is a follow-on piece to my previous post, ‘A Response to Women Against Feminism’, and some of the comments I received on it, so if you haven’t already it might be helpful to read it – as well as some of the comments – before reading this. I have always tried to separate…
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Comic Lore: Batman, Superman, and The Third Identity
“As you know, I’m quite keen on comic books. Especially the ones about superheroes. I find the whole mythology surrounding superheroes fascinating. Take my favorite superhero, Superman. Not a great comic book. Not particularly well-drawn. But the mythology… The mythology is not only great, it’s unique…Now, a staple of the superhero mythology is, there’s the…