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Why Do So Many People Like Looking at Images of Women Committing Suicide? Sir John Everett Millais

Why Do So Many People Like Looking at Images of Women Committing Suicide?

Drawings, paintings, and photographs of dead young women have been popular for centuries.

When Men Want to Talk About Abortion axio/flickr

When Men Want to Talk About Abortion

How to process the complicated emotions that arise from ending a pregnancy

Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School Library of Congress

Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School

Instead, help them channel their energy into productive tasks.

When Rape Is a Fantasy 4028mdk09/Wikimedia Commons

When Rape Is a Fantasy

Is it possible to reconcile sexual fantasy and sexual violence?

The Tired, Outdated Parenthood Clichés in Father's and Mother's Day Cards Ted Trautman

The Tired, Outdated Parenthood Clichés in Father's and Mother's Day Cards

Did you know that dads love golf and moms work too hard?

The Distinct, Positive Impact of a Good Dad Flickr / Sam DeLong

The Distinct, Positive Impact of a Good Dad

How fathers contribute to their kids' lives

Auto-Repair Shops Tend to Overcharge Women, Except When They Don't George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress

Auto-Repair Shops Tend to Overcharge Women, Except When They Don't

"It's easy to imagine employees in male-dominated work environments like car-repair shops succumbing to gender stereotypes."

I'm Gay, My Dad's a Pastor, and ... We're Working on It andrechinn/flickr

I'm Gay, My Dad's a Pastor, and ... We're Working on It

A father and a son struggle to understand each other.

In the 1950s and '60s, the NSA Held a Beauty Pageant nsa.gov via Motherboard

In the 1950s and '60s, the NSA Held a Beauty Pageant

Yes: tiaras and sashes and all

YouTube Is My Father YouTube user geoffdorn

YouTube Is My Father

Not really, of course—but it has taught me to tie a tie, change a flat tire, and more.

When Conservative Senators Sound Like Anti-Porn Feminists Susan Walsh/AP Images

When Conservative Senators Sound Like Anti-Porn Feminists

The feminist movement should continue to have a robust pro-free-speech wing.

The Particular Struggles of Rural Women Dougtone/flickr

The Particular Struggles of Rural Women

Women outside cities tend to marry earlier, have limited access to good healthcare, and experience higher rates of domestic violence.

Why Do So Many Father-Daughter Movies = Feisty Kid + Bumbling Dad? Disney

Why Do So Many Father-Daughter Movies = Feisty Kid + Bumbling Dad?

Starting with Beauty and the Beast animated films have favored the trope—for good reason.

Son-in-Law: Blessing or Intruder? Universal / STAR Plus

Son-in-Law: Blessing or Intruder?

Depends on if you're American or Indian: a look at how two different cultures approach family-blending.

How Independent Should Spouses Be? Grigory Dukor/Reuters

How Independent Should Spouses Be?

"We hardly see each other, and we each have our own lives," Lyudmila Putin told a reporter last week as she and her husband announced their divorce.

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