This WSJ article by Viviana Zelizer summarizes some studies and funding practices that favor assistance to mothers over fathers in order to encourage better decisions about spending. Why do women make better decisions? Is it biology, socialized, or are women held to a higher moral standard and judged more harshly about their spending than men? […]
This article is probably one of the most interesting I’ve read since starting Role/Reboot, and finally addresses – in what feels like a pretty honest fashion – the question of whether porn is having an impact on our sexual and emotional relationships. But author Davy Rothbart takes the question a step further: He doesn’t simply […]
This article by Elizabeth R.Varon is interesting because it shows once again that the role of women in history is largely ignored. However, more interesting to me is the way she chronicles how manhood and womanhood notions were used extensively in the rhetoric surrounding the war. I would like to think that this is part […]
New York magazine this week is all about online pornography. This article, about the impact of sex and the internet on middle school girls touches on something I’ve been thinking a lot about. Each generation tends to be very alarmist about the behaviors of the generations below it, and I’ve been wondering whether my own […]
Yes, apparently posts like this are still necessary. Sigh. Female science blogger writes, “A few weeks ago, I received a Facebook message. It was from a male admirer of my blog (and his fiancée, coincidentally). In it, he said “You are GORGEOUS, and your tits look absolutely incredible.” I froze. I know it was meant […]
This report on Davos alleges some interesting statements about women and by implication, highlights their differences from men. Do women of all classes really have similar concerns? Does being female make you more in touch with real people and their concerns? Is Female Philanthropy, concerned with the plight of poor women , a growing, important […]
In Session One of Turn the Page we review the current media coverage of “The End of Men.” I always read this coverage with a grain of salt, but now I’m getting worried about it affect on men and women and sex and power. Much in the same way we’re questioning whether the state of […]
From SFGate.com: “A teacher at an East Oakland elementary school has been placed on leave as officials investigate accusations that two of his second-grade students engaged in oral sex in the classroom and that some ran around without their clothes on, a district spokesman said Friday.” Salon wonders, is this a sad case of an abused child […]
