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Given the nearly inert state of this blog these days, I have decided I will share yet another of my keen observations about women. To wit: stubby fingers are a sign of insanity. As I am not a doctor, I can’t discourse on the precise medical causes behind this phenomenon. I believe that stubby fingers […] Funny sexual consent form video Some more thoughts on the idea of this gender pay gap. When I was in West Virginia reporting on the Sago mining accident, everyone said that coal mining offered the only opportunity for good pay in the area. With experience and overtime one can make $75,000 or so in a state with a very low […] Okay, this title is a bit rhetorical: obviously around the world women haven’t achieved equality with men. But in the United States? I left this as a comment, but decided could be its own post: I think if you compare the highest-achieving men to the highest-achieving women, obv. the men are doing much better. But […] Interesting quote in this NYT story on women’s purchasing power: “We are perhaps on the first step to a matriarchal society; women will earn more money than men if current trends continue by 2028,” said Michael J. Silverstein of the Boston Consulting Group. “The trend has been escalating in the last 10 years as there […] Via RKB, this is really funny. Apparently a bunch of woman bloggers met Bill Clinton last week and one wore a shirt that was ever-so-slightly form fitting (huge photo here), leading to condemnation lighthearted mockery by an older woman blogger. Now about 1,000+ comments and 256 blog-posts have been devoted to “boobgate” … You can […] I don’t watch a lot of TV but caught this 20/20 segment at the gym last night and got a kick out of it, in part because I’m friends with some married folks who work at ABC. I guess they are not new reports, they are repeats. But oh well. Here is a John Stossel […] I quite like being a guy. While I love chicks, I have no real desire to be one… or wear their clothes. But I’ll tell you: there’s one element of the female wardrobe that always made me jealous, that I always aspired to: open toed shoes. Who on earth wants to wear socks and shoes […] From the AP: TRENTON, N.J. – For young women with a world of choices, even that monthly curse, the menstrual period, is optional. Thanks to birth control pills and other hormonal contraceptives, a growing number of women are taking the path chosen by 22-year-old Stephanie Sardinha. She hasn’t had a period since she was […] Joy Jones had an article in the Washington Post the other day about the disintegration of the institution of marriage in the black community. She says — with good reason, I think — that this could be a harbinger things to come in society at large. Not that I think marriage is going to disappear […] So for the second time this year, yesterday the N.Y. Post had a “love child” on the front page. This time it was Randi Johnson’s daughter Heather Roszell; on Jan. 30 it was Isiah Thomas’ son Marc Dones. The stories are a little similar: each was fully financially supported by their father, but never saw […] Interesting NYT magazine article on “single mothers by choice” — working women who are choosing to use sperm donors to get pregnant. One woman, a 40-year-old graduate student in biology in the Midwest, told me shortly after her first insemination: “One of the things that was so powerful about deciding to have a baby on […] 18 years, 18 years She got one of yo kids got you for 18 years I know somebody payin child support for one of his kids His baby momma’s car and crib is bigger than his You will see him on TV Any Given Sunday Win the Superbowl and drive off in a Hyundai … […] I’ve been reading with interest Rachel’s take on “raunch culture” and Ariel Levy’s book “Female Chauvinist Pigs”. I’m reminded this 17-year-old Muslim teenager I interviewed the other day, who wore this “half” niqab.* “I’ve been told I’m a terrorist, that I’m degraded when I cover my body,” she said. “I’m not degraded, I’m making a […] I found this NYT article in their new free subway paper yesterday and thought it was interesting… [A]s single women have grown to be an indisputable force in the housing market, a compelling question about single men has arisen: why are single women twice as likely to be home buyers? A study published last month […] It’s the topic that keeps on giving … Rachel‘s “who-pays” column, which quoted me, has inspired all this debate on feminist blogs. The topic is maybe played out a little, but the comments at Amanda Marcotte’s Pandagon are pretty interesting (55 and counting): Most guys I’ve gone out with will give the initial offer to […] |
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