The Personal Lives of Men
I’m not often a fan of the “if this had been a woman….” line of argument because it’s nearly impossible to prove, but: If this article about Benjamin Millepied being made the new director of dance at the Paris Opera Ballet had been about a female choreographer landing such a role, and that female choreographer was married to an Oscar-winning Hollywood star that she met while choreographing one of his movies, that would have been mentioned in the first two paragraphs. And the fact that they have a kid together would have been mentioned as more than an aside.
...read moreResponding to Raising Children in Our Way-Past-Gender Society.
In this post I respond to the comments to Raising Children in Our Way-Past-Gender Society. I found them to be better building blocks in the conversation than my own first guest post.
...read morePurity or Integrity?
What would you rather be — sexually pure or a person of integrity? The purity balls are back, but this time for boys. And since they’re for boys, “purity” isn’t the issue, since apparently that requires having a hymen. No, boys are supposed to have integrity. Which apparently means looking at women as objects to [...]
...read moreWiki Women
I adore Wikipedia, and so I was more than a little disappointed to read their definitions of “man” and “woman.” Via Scribblepad, we find that the headings for “man” include: Contents [hide] * 1 Etymology * 2 Age * 3 Biology and sex * 4 Gender roles * 5 Further reading * 6 See also [...]
...read moreJoke Deconstruction: Mars and Venus
Thanks to Lauren for letting me guest post here. My plan is to rip apart a joke, which I’ll indicate first, thus starting a (possibly) long tradition of ruining everyone’s fun. The Story: Man and woman are intimate in bed. Man feels that things are “heating up” but woman then doesn’t want to have intercourse. [...]
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In Which He, Fatefully, Returns to Gender.
My first two notes about the intsersection of parenting and gender revealed that I was typing out of my depth. I would like to try one more time, having read all of the comments and thought some more about it, if only to try, try again. After my first post, there was a commenting consensus [...]
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