By Danielle Bernstein “Oh no, you go first,” I politely say as I hold the door open with nothing but my feminine prowess. The man doesn’t know what to do! He is frozen at the threshold, his masculinity challenged by this simple act of female chivalry. After a 46-second standoff,...
By Danielle Bernstein I care about the environment. I swear I do! I sometimes recycle and I constantly badger my mom about how all her makeup products were tested on animals. Whenever I see someone litter, I’m sure to give them a really dirty look. I mean, I don’t pick...
It’s hard being a woman. I get paid significantly less than men and, if I want to nature pee, I have to hold a weird funnel. Life is hard enough as is, but having that double X chromosome makes it that much harder. It is important that we women have...
I don’t believe in Astrology. There I said it. But the arbitrary-personality-categorizing-hill I will die on is the Myers–Briggs Personality test. With this personality test, the more than eight billion people on this globe can fit so conveniently (and accurately!) into 16 personality types. The second rarest personality is the...
Dear Professor, I just wanted to apologize for my thoughtlessness in asking you to reschedule your midterm. You were right in your refusal to do so. It was a gross oversight on my part, as I should have considered the importance of your midterm over Yom Kippur. You clearly established...
