LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Grace Carr Certain body parts don’t define male or female gender, according to Planned Parenthood’s updated guidelines on how parents should talk to their kids about sexuality. Planned Parenthood has long been a believer in hard science, arguing that a fetus is just a clump of cells, but the organization now purports that genitals don’t make a…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman The co-founder of a “period-proof underwear” startup called Thinx recently stepped down from her leadership role after a former employee accused her of sexual harassment. Chelsea Leibow alleges that her former boss, ex-CEO Miki Agrawal, “touched an employee’s breasts and asked her to expose them, routinely changed clothes in front…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Russ Read Secretary of Defense James Mattis condemned the actions of hundreds of Marines who were caught sharing nude pictures of their female colleagues on social media Friday. Mattis’s statement came in response to the revelation that members of the Marines United Facebook page were sharing links to Google Drive folders that…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall California legislators are considering a bill that would add “non-binary” as a gender on state identification cards. The Gender Recognition Act of 2017, introduced Thursday, would include “non-binary” on state IDs, drivers licenses and birth certificates, reports Mercury News. Democratic State Sen. Toni Atkins from San Diego…
by Kitty Testa There’s a wonderful tradition in NHL playoff games in which the opposing teams line up after a championship game and shake each other’s hands. The losing team congratulates the winning team. The winning team congratulates the losing team on a hard-fought challenge. It exemplifies grace in victory and grace in defeat. It…
by Eric Lieberman A former Yahoo media executive is suing CEO Marissa Mayer for allegedly purging the tech company of male employees. Mayer is accused of systemically favoring female employees in an unjust manner and having unfair management tactics in general. “Mayer encouraged and fostered the use of (an employee performance-rating system) to accommodate management’s subjective biases and…
by Jonah Bennett The first female soldier to ever attempt Green Beret special forces training has washed out of the course. She failed this week to complete the requirements of U.S. Army Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS), The Washington Times reports. The unnamed female soldier began her training on Sept. 2 after reporting to Fort Bragg,…
by Jonah Bennett The first female ever to try out for the Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment has flunked out, but will get the opportunity to try again later this year. As part of the Army’s effort to integrate women into combat roles, it allowed this unnamed female staff sergeant to try out via the 75th Ranger Regiment’s Ranger…
Let’s get something straight: I think Idris Elba would make an awesome James Bond, I loved Daisy Ridley in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and I am not opposed to the premise of female Ghostbusters. I am not some alt-right reactionary who feels the need to take up intellectual arms in defense of white, heterosexual men….
By Guy Bentley The gender wage gap is almost none existent in the developed world, according to a Korn Ferry Hay Group analysis of 33 countries around the globe. The study examined more than eight million employees across dozens of countries and found the pay gap between men and women working in same types of roles, with the same…