It’s hard to use the term “soul mate” without feeling like you should be wearing a cape and meditating over a crystal. We’ve considered the concept extensively — both independently and together over Gchat — and we are of the same mind on the matter: Not only do soul mates exist but all of us have more…
I recently thought back to some of my earliest “serious” conversations about sex, which took place in the halls of Whitney Young Magnet High School. My girls and I debated the qualifications that a boy would need in order to be bestowed with our precious V-cards and lamented the fact that we really needed to…
“There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.” Madeleine Albright How many times have you heard another woman say: “I just don’t get along with other women.” “I don’t have any female friends.” Or the kicker, “I just don’t trust b*tches!” Throughout my life I’ve heard every iteration of my…
No study can tell women what we’ve realized since we danced through the Garden of Eden in our birthday suits: Men don’t understand our emotions. We realize this strange phenomenon the first time men ask us if we’re upset because we’re menstruating. Now we have scientific evidence to back our claims. According to a study…
The recent surge of women in the professional ranks has affected more than the income gap between the two sexes. Premeditated by the initial lack of income balance, the closing chasm continues to shape a new generation of relationships formed around new rules. One of the more ballyhooed consequences of women increasing earning power is…
Forgive my lack of a proper set up for this story, one with wit or something deep to draw you in. I can’t pull one together right now that has more depth than, “what the entire **** is going on?” So instead of giving you a bunch of symbols to replace the string of expletives…
With every profile I scanned, one thing became abundantly clear: Men are bitter. As hell.
“This isn’t working for me anymore,” he says abruptly one night on the phone, and you’re stunned. Everything had been going great. You’d even been thinking about places to go on a summer vacation together, but unfortunately, he had other plans. And you did not see this coming. Breakups are hard enough when you know things aren’t…
When Clutch contributor Demetria Lucas wrote that black women should just marry each other as a solution to the Single Black Woman crisis, it was in satire. But loving other women as a last resort is a real issue for some, according to Jada Pinkett-Smith. The actress vented on her Facebook page about 40+ women who are…
Recently, a documentary made its way into my Gmail inbox. Frustrated: Black American Men in Brazil expounds on a piece published a few years ago in Essence about Black men finding in Brazil what they “can’t” in North America: love, or a more easily manageable version of it. It’s the same story about black men…
