Stefanie Iris Weiss
By Stefanie Iris Weiss
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Life Why I’m a Feminist for Bernie — and Won’t Apologize for It
I’ve learned something in the last few months. Disagreeing with my sisters – especially my feminist sisters – is not something I’m terribly comfortable with. Since declaring my allegiance to Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary against Hillary Clinton I’ve gotten a hell of a lot of side eye (and worse) from people that I…
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Life How To Talk About Rape Culture in 2016 – Start By Admitting That It Exists
When you type “rape culture” into your search bar, Google helpfully shows you that “rape culture myth” (emphasis mine) is the second most popular search term for the phrase. This tells us much of what we need to know about the status of the conversation; people don’t even believe that it’s even a real thing….
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Life The Israeli Woman Teaching the Art of Stiletto Self Defense
RapeCulture is more than just a hashtag — it’s something women cannot avoid, no matter where they live or whom they partner with. One-in-three women will experience a physical or sexual assault in her lifetime — by strangers on the street or from their own spouses or family members. Even the rare woman who has…
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Life Why Medicalizing Menstruation Is Bad for Women
When I first read Alana Massey’s recent piece in The Atlantic, about period-suppression, I wondered if it was sponsored content for a pharmaceutical company, specifically Bayer, the makers of the Mirena IUD. Massey interviews a number of women who’ve endured incapacitating menstrual cycles, and I can empathize. I have had painful, debilitating periods since the…
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Life Why You Don’t Need ‘Female Viagra’
Let’s start by de-mythologizing flibanserin, approved by the FDA last week. Despite headlines to the contrary, this drug, to be marketed as Addyi, has nothing whatsoever to do with Viagra. Erectile dysfunction drugs are purely physiological i.e. they give men erections. For women, the “little pink pill” has long been an elusive profit-making dream for…
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