Tag Archives: Gender & Sexuality

Please welcome Laura Stembridge to our team of writers.

Stembridge is a recent graduate of Gonzaga University where she studied English Literature with a concentration in women's and gender studies.

This question has been asked for years within our culture. The one constant has been that American men have found it their job to “protect” our women, as much as possible, from the horrors and physical depravities of war.

If a woman is physically and emotionally capable of the rigors of combat, she should be given the opportunity to serve.

The fact that we are still arguing about this says something deeply disturbing about our culture. While serving in the military is not my idea of a fulfilling career, it is for many people, including many women.

This is just a rehash of the Victorian argument that women should not be allowed to work outside of the home in order to protect them from the corrupt male industrial world...

An entire lifetime of angry feminism and all that time, I’ve missed a piece of truly low-hanging lady-rage fruit. How, in 28 years, has it never occurred to me to be angry about the term “Mrs.” being reserved for married women?