My mother, who grew up in the Midwest in the 1950’s, can do anything with her hands. She can sew, cook, fix plumbing, and diagnose an electrical problem. She can garden, compost, paint, and decorate. She taught me how to drive and she could parallel park the Titanic. Like most women of her generation, she […]
So much for all the hype about the He-session and The End of Men. As an article in the NYTs points out, the net effect of the recession and all the political steps taken to address it and deficits will increase the disparity in the economic status between men and women. England has been undergoing […]
I was surprisingly touched by this simple, wise letter by Dan Mulhern to his son, on how to be a Real Man today. Surrounded by a recent sea of articles heralding the end of men, or decrying a male/masculinity crisis, its easy to lose site of how liberating a moment this could be for men […]
This post debates whether there is harm in a mom (Martha) watching the royal wedding with her daughter. In fact, Martha has made quite a to-do of it which includes keeping her daughter home from pre-school to celebrate. Patrick Malone, clearly a feminist man, argues effectivly that there is enough fairy princess stuff out in […]
This article caught my eye because of its headline in the UK newspaper The Daily Mail. It is the word shame that got to me and the way it was used. It annoyed me given the fact that US women are doing a lot better on advancement than women throughout Europe and the word shame […]
The consistent finding that women are more anxious than men (in fact, twice as prone to anxiety according to many studies) is endlessly fascinating, albeit a bit concerning. At the heart of this finding is a very controversial nurture vs. nature debate – the type that underlies the most layered and persistent gender questions. Personally, […]
Unprotected sex calms a woman more than sex when a condom is used? Who the heck would even think to study this? It reminds me of old psychological studies of women designed to address women’s “hysteria”- then thought to be a widespread problem. The head of a surgeons group then went ahead and wrote an […]
If you ever wanted to incite a gender war, look no further than the folks from Male Studies. A seemingly sexist, not-terribly-academic bunch, it seems that in their “field” longing for the days of loin cloths and chest-pounding masculinity doesn’t make you out of touch. We’ve written about Male Studies before (here and here), […]
