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Blog postThe New Improved Pink Tax Much has been written about the Pink Tax, which, despite the name, is not an actual tax. It refers to the practice of charging more for products intended for sale to women, where an almost identical product for men costs less. The same manufacturer may charge more for a pink razor than a blue one. A women’s blouse will often be more expensive than a similar men’s shirt. A salon may charge more for a woman to have her hair cut than a man. These gender based surcharge
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Blog postBetter Late: A Neurodiverse Love Story “I deserve so much better,” I whisper into my husband’s ear as we embrace in the kitchen.
Alex’s barrel chest and round belly press against me.
“Yesterday you left me waiting for you at the restaurant,” I remind him. “That’s not okay. You can’t do that.”
I’d waited for an hour before giving up and eating alone. He texted me later with an offhand “Sorry, I got caught up in some work.”
I was so upset that I’d Go -
Blog postGet Out Your TugBoat In 1971, Erica Jong interviewed the legendary Anais Nin, who was then in her sixties. Jong asked Nin why she allowed her publisher to cut the sex out of her diaries.
“Women who write about sex are never taken seriously as writers,” said Nin.
“That’s exactly why we must do it,” said Jong.
That year I was a freshman, studying writing at a top liberal arts college. My writing teachers were all men. According to them, Philip Roth’s sex-fueled novels w -
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Blog postAn Open Letter to the New York Times Dear New York Times:
I now live several states away and read your paper on a screen. Still, the daily experience of reading the Times brings me back to the 1970s: to mornings in Brooklyn with a poppyseed bagel in one hand and a newspaper in the other. Ever since, throughout the events of my lifetime, public and private, the Times has been my trusted companion. And it remains front and center through these post-Roe days.
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Blog postWork Sucks for Women Too. Regardless of Our Age. Years ago I worked with a woman who won nine million dollars in the California state lottery. The lottery folks suggested she take a monthly payout but she said no thanks, she wanted it all. After taxes she got just over three million dollars.
This woman – let’s call her Claire – was the administrative assistant in the Marketing department. I didn’t know her, but my friends would point her out at company picnics. “That’s Claire,” -
Blog postVote With Your Feet on Abortion Leverage our Post-Menopausal Freedom after the Dobbs Ruling If, like me, you’re a woman way past menopause, you don’t have to worry about an unplanned pregnancy derailing or threatening your life. Other things might throw us: an off-calendar heart attack or unexpected cancer. But for those who have long parted ways with our uteri, the Dobbs decision is an insult, not an existential threat.
That gives us leverage. We remember life before Roe, we know ex -
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Blog postThe Romance Revolution Is the romance novel a tool of the patriarchy? Or exactly the opposite? That depends…
Origins of the Romance Novel
In the early twentieth century, novels for women provided messages of purity and refinement. Publishers were reluctant to run afoul of purity associations run by prominent men of the time. But then came the first “best-sellers:” So-called “sex novels” that focused on women’s sexual desires and pleasures. The success of nove -
Blog post7 Things I Learned from Dating and Writing Carolyn Lee Arnold’s new book, Fifty Dates After Fifty, has been called a “frolicking, racy memoir.” As a fifty-something woman, Carolyn learned that you must kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince—so the key is to enjoy the frogs along the way. And it turns out that first dates are a lot like first drafts. Many thanks, Carolyn, for your vibrant wisdom on both fronts!
Dating and writing have a lot in common: Attitude is everything, persi -
Blog postFirst Do No Ageist Harm Last year I signed up for an online clinical study about brain health and answered a series of questions. The study materials said the research would help discover treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other brain disorders. Back then it seemed like a public service to provide information that could help fight disease. I recently completed a follow-up set of questions and came away with a different perspective.
Life after fulltime work gives us time to -
Blog post10 Steps to Write a Great Seasoned Sex Scene At their best, sex and writing have a lot in common: two forms of play that engage us creatively with others. Both make us vulnerable. And there is no subject we can write about that makes us more vulnerable than sex—even more so for older women who write about sex in a youth-obsessed culture. On the flip side, it’s the most fun you can have with your computer on.
Years ago I read an article by a romance writer in her fifties advising her
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