Archive for the ‘Sex & Gender’ Category
July 24th, 2009
It’s true, men are losing their jobs with greater frequency than women. However, U.S. News & World Report did a great job of missing some fundamental points in their recent article, Recession Tips for Wives.While it does a good job of pissing off men and women alike with its stereotyping, (hey women, your jobs – or job loss – is not as important or devastating as it is for a man, since you’re really homemakers anyway).
While I’m irritated at the advice offered in the U.S. News & World Report article, mostly because it makes a lot of nasty assumptions about the people involved, (men don’t talk about their feelings, can’t function on their own without a woman to do their thinking for them, and women are judgmental harpies who will withhold sex when no money is coming in), at its root, it does try to pass along some truly valid advice. keep reading »
July 7th, 2009
Oh, misogyny. We keep vanquishing you, but you keep rearing your ugly head in dark caverns of the internet. Dark, dank caverns like AskMen.com. Why can’t you stay gone? In this post, I review the worst of internet comments from this wacky website that I’m often tempted to think is run by a combination of guys who a) have never actually talked to, much less had sex with, a woman; b) think all women are after his “precious bodily fluids” so that they can extort him for child support; or c) think that “fucking awesome!!!!” and “woooo!” are the be all, end all of exclamations. keep reading »
June 12th, 2009
I don’t generally bother with stuff like this, but I want to point a few things out. After all, everyone’s got an opinion, and I’m no exception. For those of you lucky enough to have no idea who Carrie is or what all of this is about, she’s the former Miss California 2009 beauty queen. Perez Hilton, a gossip blogger, was a judge for the competition and asked Ms. Prejean what her stance on gay marriage was. It should come as no surprise that Hilton, an openly gay man, would be offended by her answer, which was not at all in support of gay rights. Prejean was later fired for “failing to meet contractual obligations.” keep reading »
May 9th, 2009
Stephen Marche at Esquire laments the loss of loose women and what it means for modern men. His article doesn’t really analyze the rise and fall of the loose woman in America, so much as his own dissatisfaction with the homogenized dating scene – the inherent sameness everyone seems to be subscribing to lately. That has nothing inherently to do with women – there are just as many cookie cutter men out there, too. What I like is that he isn’t referring to loose women in general. If you want to find a loose lady, you can and will. He mourns the loss of the intelligent, powerful and sexual woman. The days of Sex and the City are well over, at least if you’re looking for a Samantha. keep reading »
April 28th, 2009
It’s nice to know I’m not the only person who’s totally weirded out by the fast food ads that arbitrarily mix sex in with their sandwiches. When I think of sex sandwiches, I think of that as a euphemism for a threesome, or, conversely, a serious and disgusting food safety violation.
In Dan Neil’s LA Times article, he talks about just how bizarre these ads get – you’ve probably seen some of them: keep reading »

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