Susan Cox

Susan Cox is a feminist writer and academic living in the United States. She teaches in Philosophy.

What's Current: Purity Culture doesn't protect girls

“Sex Work”: A term used to protect the dignity of men. Christian Purity Culture encourages girls to treat the patriarch of their family as their practice husband. The current culture of online…

What's Current: 'Psych!' – Google

Google: “Psych!” They won’t be banning porn on Blogger after all. Ten-year-old girl defends a baby from being molested by a man by hitting him with a poker. Classic love poems… but…

What's Current: Oscars edition

Patricia Arquette won an Academy Award last night for Best Supporting Actress and received booming applause after calling for equal rights and equal pay for women. Although some predicted Arquette would receive…

What’s Current: openDemocracy not very open to democracy

The modeling industry exploits underage girls who are legally unprotected, overworked, and underpaid. If a feminist critiques the practice of wearing high-heels, she’s called a femmephobe. If a man does it, he’s…

Let’s be honest: Sex-outfits are not 'women’s lingerie'

Valentine’s day is coming up and you know what that means… going out and buying “lingerie” to surprise your man! But this isn’t normal “lingerie” (which is, for the record, defined as…