Caitlin Flanagan is a contributing editor at the Atlantic and the author of “Girl Land.” When I was a teenager, I would always perk up when a talk-show host announced that he was about to introduce a ...

The ability to feel what others feel has many well-documented benefits, including, for empathetic people, greater psychological and physical health. The real and socially significant positive impact ...

My newfound happy relationship with the traditional feminine aesthetic has taught me that, sometimes, nothing puts a spring in my step quite like a girly sundress. Even now as I sit typing on my ...

Girls today grow up in a world with an unprecedented set of educational and professional opportunities. More of them will graduate from college and earn advanced degrees than ever before, and all ...

There are two commonly held beliefs about femmes, and both of them are wrong. The first is that real lesbians aren’t femmes (with the pernicious corollary that all bisexual women are). The second is ...

In the mirror, my chest looks flat. I hold up the camera, pull at my silver button-up shirt, square my shoulders. Click. Another me looks back from the picture, the me I really am, or want to be, or ...

The Game has aired his frustrations with the current state of male rap fashion in a new Instagram rant. The Compton rapper ...