The Friday Five

This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women.

1. The Economics of Divorce by Matthew Yglesias of Slate.com analyzes the narrowing gap in income declines between men and women who split from their partners.

2. “Chelsea” Celebrates the Drunk Chick by Mary Elizabeth Williams on Salon.com asks: Is the only way to make women funny to add alcohol?

3. Straight Talk: A New Breed of Fashion Bloggers by Alexis Swerdloff of The New York Times takes a look at the latest trend in fashion: male bloggers.

4. BDSM: It’s Less Transgressive Than You Think by Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com explores a new book on white, middle-class kinksters in the San Francisco Bay Area.

5. Should We Have National Standards for Sex Education? KJ Dell’Antonia of the Motherlode, a parenting blog of The New York Times, poses the question.

 

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