Claire Gordon
CLAIRE GORDON
Gordon: I feel I should care about the war, but I can’t

I don’t care about the Iraq war. The 4,188 lost American lives are a sad statistic. As are the over 100,000 estimated — but 30,723 […]

October 31, 2008

CLAIRE GORDON
Gordon: Finally, Yale women on top

Next year will be the 40th anniversary of co-education at Yale. Forty years ago, women were granted access to one of the most exclusive and […]

October 10, 2008

CLAIRE GORDON
Gordon: For women, perfection by deprivation

Third-wave feminism tells girls that we can be both empowered and feminine. We can be CEOs in heels and lipstick; we can (almost) be president […]

October 1, 2008

CLAIRE GORDON
Gordon: An interracial failure

The Yale prospectus is a catalogue of New England eye candy: ortho-perfect smiles, windswept bangs and the fading tans of Cape Cod summers. Flipping through […]

September 25, 2008

CLAIRE GORDON
Prisons commit greater crimes than inmates

One in 100 American adults is behind bars. That’s 2.3 million people total. America imprisons more of its citizens than any other country in the […]

March 31, 2008

CLAIRE GORDON
Myth-making men reify the almighty phallus

The Washington Monument. A Fender Stratocaster. AK-47s. Neckties. Codpiece bayonets. Reminders of the penis are everywhere, from Victorian novels to skylines to fruit bowls. According […]

March 25, 2008

CLAIRE GORDON
The patriarchy wears patent leather heels

  The patriarchy has reduced me to an immobile blob; it won’t let me shower; it has covered me in crumbs of stroopwafel, the legendary […]

March 5, 2008

CLAIRE GORDON
With double standard, satisfying sex difficult for women to come by

This article has been corrected. You may view this article’s correction here. Why does casual sex still leave many women with a guilty aftertaste, that […]

February 1, 2008

CLAIRE GORDON
Pervasive sexism threatens Yale’s women

The incident with Zeta Psi has caused a lot of campus controversy. Unfortunately, most of this controversy has not centered on the act itself, but […]

January 25, 2008