Have you heard? Kim Kardashian is apparently the First Woman To Ever Get Married, or so you might think from all the media coverage of the recently-engaged star. Kim Kardashian is a brand unto herself, making thousands of dollars in appearance fees and loaning her image to products such as Skechers Shape-Ups and various diet […]
Does watching porn ruin marriages? Are porn users more likely to have unrealistic expectations of their partners? Do all women hate porn? Do all men love porn? These are all questions Vicki Larson takes on (with only minimal success) in her piece on the Huffington Post. Larson’s piece is problematic, but it does get the […]
Jim Wallace’s call for zero tolerance of sexist men was both timely and interesting. Since it’s common for cases of men blatantly disrepecting women to be big media stories (the examples Wallace points to are all good examples of this: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and Donald Trump’s on-going issues) stories about men who are making […]
Epiphanies don’t often come with hoop earrings but mine recently did. I’m somewhat embarrassingly admitting that lobe-dangling geometric inspiration came from a recent rewatching of the original “Sex in the City” movie. You remember the one where Carrie goes a little bridezilla and wonders why Big couldn’t hang. My hoop inspired a-ha moment wasn’t about […]
AskMen’s Top 10 Signs You’re Not an Alpha Male seems to be an attempt at combining features of an enlightened man with some traditional male gender stereotypes with the language of The Hangover. Some folks over at AskMen must be pretty scared that the Alpha Male is a dying breed in need of defending. The […]
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels’ announcement that he would not be seeking the GOP nomination for the 2012 presidential race because his family had exercised their veto power has gained a lot of traction in the news. This discussion also raises a lot of questions about parenting and spousal roles and responsibility. Both Mitch and his […]
In a new post on Tiger Beatdown, Sady Doyle comments on the controversy surrounding the misogynistic and sexually violent lyrics in Tyler, the Creator’s new album. Last week, Tyler, the Creator, of the hip-hop collective Odd Future, released the album “Goblin”, which includes lyrics such as “I just wanna drag your lifeless body to the […]
I’ve never been a breadwinner. My wife and I have been married five years, together for seven. I’ve worked as a journalist nearly all of that time, and if you haven’t heard—journalists make peanuts. Seriously. Mid-level suburban high school babysitters make more than members of the Fourth Estate. But if you’ve got ink in your […]
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 […]
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 […]
