Ariel Chesler

A father explains his difficulty in finding female superhero toys for his daughters, and how that reflects (poorly) on broader sexism in our society.

It is obvious once you begin to look that the male default can be found everywhere.

The former View host is embroiled in a court case raising challenging questions about parental responsibilities.

For starters, fathers want culture and media to take us seriously as parents. After all, it is 2015. We should be way past the bumbling Mr. Mom stereotype. Fathers are just as capable of diapering, feeding and raising children as women, and are doing this work more than ever before.

It’s perhaps obvious how women are hurt when those in power do not view their lives and interests as equal and have no empathy for them: Their reproductive rights, their economic rights, and their human rights are dismissed and attacked. But, how are men impacted by culture and policies based in woman hatred? My answer is simple: Until women are free, men will not be free.

Let's be clear: There is no such thing as a boy book or a girl book.

When thinking about how we’ve reached a place where anti-woman sentiment is on the rise in our politics, public life, and culture, I suggest we begin with our children.

Good people of all sexes should be motivated to end gender inequality because patriarchal rules limit everyone's ability to be their whole selves.

The failure to grapple with the complexities of anti-semitism perpetuates a hierarchy of oppression.

Our perceptions of black masculinity are based on myths white men created to dehumanize black men. But we are captive to these myths inasmuch as we desire to make this imagined black masculinity our own.