November 20, 2024

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Humor to Counter Despair’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Brian Rea Haunting in Our Family History “You are a ghost,” he slurred, […]
November 16, 2024

Are Women Really Abandoning Men After Trump’s Win? Inside the Rise of ‘Heteropessimism.’

If you were looking for a single example of just how strange things were getting between men and women this election cycle, one political ad seemed […]
June 29, 2024

The Broad Appeal of the Elsa Dress from “Frozen”

Wearing a costume from “Frozen” in daily life has become a pastime for many children who identify with the character, regardless of gender. Dressing up as […]
May 1, 2024

‘Modern Love Podcast’: Emily Ratajkowski Can Take Care of Herself, But a Little Help Would Be Nice

Julia Botero, Christina Djossa, Reva Goldberg, Emily Lang and Dan Powell, Diane Wong, Pat McCusker, Rowan Niemisto and Listen and follow Modern LoveApple Podcasts | Spotify| Amazon Music “I think that was […]
October 30, 2020

What Makes a Man Manly? Trump and Biden Offer Competing Answers

If the 2016 election pitted feminism against machismo, this one asks voters to consider what masculinity means. President Trump, in his personality and policies, has presented […]
October 7, 2020

The Gender Reveal That Doesn’t

Whatever happened to secondary sex characteristics? You know, those shapes and appendages we develop after puberty as an anatomical signage, an aid to evolution. Kardashians aside, […]
September 10, 2020

Are Gender Reveals Cursed?

This week, after a “smoke-generating pyrotechnic device” used at a gender-reveal party set off a devastating wildfire that scorched thousands of acres east of Los Angeles, […]
November 22, 2017

Skin Deep: His Eye Makeup Is Way Better Than Yours

Advertisement Would you be inclined to buy makeup because a 10-year-old boy is showing you how to create a look on Instagram? If we’re talking about […]
September 2, 2017

EJ Johnson Is ‘Not Just Some Other Rich Girl’

“Today we are talking about breaking boundaries,” EJ Johnson declared from the stage of Beautycon, a two-day cosmetics festival held in August at the Los Angeles […]
August 18, 2016

Would a Rose, by a Gender-Neutral Baby Name, Smell as Sweet?

When it came to naming their third son a few weeks ago, Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green sidestepped traditional boys names like Ethan and Jacob […]