Nine to Five (or as it’s sometimes known, 9 to 5) was a popular 1980 comedy in which three secretaries, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Dolly Parton, connived to “fix” their overbearing (male, naturally) boss. It was one of several movies in those years, which looked at gender roles–male/female power differentials–in the workplace. (Tootsie was […]
An Old Man Ponders Rape Culture
I was a shy teenager. I still had a full dose of male hormones, though. By the time I got to high school, I found the “opposite sex” painfully attractive. In 1966 at West High School in Salt Lake City–a more virginal time and place–I knew all the tricks for looking up skirts and down blouses […]
America’s Most Beloved Sexual Assault
This photo appeared in the New York Times 70 years ago, taken by U.S. Navy photographer Victor Jorgenson. He titled it, “Kissing the War Goodbye.” A week later, Life Magazine published a shot taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, from a better angle. Life blew Eisenstaedt’s photo up to fill a full page. On the facing page was […]