Don't Bogart My Blog: Sunday Best: The secret that millions of women are keeping

Sunday, October 13, 2019

Sunday Best: The secret that millions of women are keeping

October 13, 2019

The news is never-ending — but there are only 31 days in October. Anyone who knows me knows that this is my favorite month of the year. Thirty-one days never seems long enough. It's a time when nature undergoes a metamorphosis that can make you feel like anything is possible. This week, Margaret Renkl described it perfectly when she wrote that October is a month for "cool, damp mornings. For colored leaves that quake in the wind before letting go and lifting away. For afternoon shadows so lovely they fill me with a longing I can't even name." — Alexandra March

Pregnancy Loss Might Be the Loneliest Experience That Millions of Women Have Faced

"This was the 'me too' moment of my life. I have had several miscarriages, all very early, and the number of women who said 'me too' was staggering."

The Year is 2040. The Goal? Keeping Abortion Legal in New York

John Karborn

"As the New York legislature convenes ... to begin debate on S9764, I would like to offer my thoughts as a gynecologist who still provides that rarest of services, abortion."

Enough Leaning In. Let's Tell Men to Lean Out.

Kiersten Essenpreis

Modern-day feminism dictates that women should be empowered and assertive. But what if most of our problems "are caused not by a lack of assertiveness in women, but by an overassertiveness among men?"

Cuban Paternalism in the Age of #MeToo

Yeyei Gómez

The "battle for women's liberation" looks very different in Cuba than it does in the U.S. "There are systems in place for punishing those who do not put down their heads and surrender to the reality that men are in control of our daily lives."

I Won't Let the Far Right Steal My Sons

Connor Willumsen

This mother knew that awkwardness, angst and defiance would be part of her sons' teenage years. "What I didn't predict was that my sons' adolescence would include being drawn to the kind of online content right-wing extremists use to recruit so many young men."

Read the full Opinion report here.