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 […]
June 3, 2016

Why Can’t My BFF and My New Boyfriend Get Along?

By PHILIP GALANES June 2, 2016 I have been single for several years, and my best friend and I have come to count on each other for daily […]
April 22, 2016

Modern Love: All Twisted Up by Gender Bending

April 22, 2016 Modern Love By DELACEY SKINNER I had asked my ex-boyfriend if I could spend the night at the house he owned in his […]