Cintra Wilson watches the ladies' short figure skating program and asks: I sold my soul to the scalpers to watch these mechanized super-chicks kiss ass?

Chapter 23: Zen cats, dragon's eyes and the valley's Gertrude Stein

The new Barbies are a hit—but reimagining Ken as a truly aspirational image is going to take some work

A request for tribal leaders of the world: Could you stop with the honor killings?

Plus: Sports apparel company capitalizes on realization that girls sweat, too.

Karl Taro Greenfeld paints an epic portrait of drug demons and sex junkies in Japan's new demimonde.

Toxic masculinity hurts men and women alike.

Weaving kitsch, honesty and lather, sex in Japan is as complex as the country itself.

Normal boys and girls are taking growth hormones for being short. That's a bad prescription.

The robot wished Earth good morning

Mia Matsumiya's "Perv Magnet" shows off the relentless sexual harassment and racism that floods her inbox

Embrace your height, don't fight it, says one Salon reader

If you're like me, you found yourself rooting for Hall. Turns out she's fought sexism her own way all along

The studio backs off the "p-word" for fear of alienating boys

The singer is called out for promoting Western stereotypes of Japanese culture