This piece is part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from HyperVocal, Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone,The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. As we consider of the question of the “end of gender” it’s important to think beyond the shifts we see in society and consider the […]
The more things change, the more they stay the same. For every action there is a reaction. For every trend, there is a counter-trend. Maureen Dowd’s column in this Sunday’s NY Times brought all these little sayings to mind and affirmed their truth. She describes new shows that have recently been green lighted by Hollywood […]
Why is it that no one freaks out when young girls play with trucks or engage in sports but when a boy in an ad has pink nail polish a brouhaha follows? Why is it that women have increasingly moved into previously male professions like law and medicine but nursing remains only 8% male? The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ladies, if you have money and independence, are you really placing priority on looking for a man who is hot? A new study apparently says that wealthier women now value looks more than financial security since they can really take care of themselves. Men, meanwhile, have not changed much. They want younger, beautiful women. So […]
Ok, here’s a real puzzler. Is it ok for women to post pictures of hot guys on the Tube (the British subway system) without their knowledge? Is it a step toward equality or away from it for women to appreciate and share pictures of men based on their looks alone? I think this site is […]
This article could set dreams of shared parenting and gender equality back decades. I applaud the honesty of the writer but wonder how much of what was described really has to do with parenting versus a dysfunctional relationship among two people with many idiosyncrasies. The first thing that struck me is the attempt to plan […]
So, if a boy wears pink toe polish he must be transgendered or perhaps the pink polish will cause him to be transgendered? Crazy. This belief and reaction has some of its roots in how we used to think about gender identity. When I first studied child development in the early 70s people believed that […]
This NYT column by Maureen Dowd has provoked much discussion. Is it really a gender flip that the women wanted us to get involved in Libya when the men resisted? I think too much is made of this. For one thing, the women all invoked humanitarian reasons for involvement while the men resisted for practical […]
