By Nian Hu It started with an overheard conversation. “Saw it on Subtle Asian Traits,” someone next to me on the subway said to her friend. A few days later, I was mindlessly watching Instagram Stories when I saw a Pikachu meme posted by a girl I knew from elementary school. She wrote, “lmao…
By Nian Hu The significance of society’s inability to find women funny It is a (supposedly) well-established fact that women just aren’t funny. As a result, it’s tough being a woman in comedy. Take Amy Schumer, comedian du jour. A talented and unabashed stand up comic and sketch writer, it’s easy to see why…
By Nian Hu Financial dependency and gender roles in marriage By definition, a housewife is a woman whose main occupation is running her family’s household and who does not work outside the home. She is, for the most part, financially dependent on her husband, the breadwinner of the family. But the women described…
By Nian Hu Loosening standards for men while tightening standards for women What makes a man “hot”?”? If we take a look at the list of the sexiest men alive—a list that includes actors Channing Tatum, Ryan Reynolds, and Chris Hemsworth—we notice that they all have a similar body type, with glistening washboard abs…
By Nian Hu The double standard of male and female sexuality If you’re a woman, chances are you’ve been called a slut. Women who have slept with 10 men have been called sluts. Women who have slept with one man have been called sluts. Women who have never had sex have been called sluts.…
By Nian Hu, a student at Harvard The stigmatization of menstruation Call it the crimson wave, Aunt Flo, or cousin red—call it anything but what it actually is. Menstruation, the process by which the body sheds the lining of the uterus through the vagina, is all too familiar to any woman of childbearing age.…
By Nian Hu (Nian Hu ’18, Student of Harward, a Crimson editorial executive) Femme Fatale Rape (noun)–”unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.” …