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Hyper-male Nuts, Meet Shell

This post mostly exists to link to an excellent article by John Beckett: Dude, It’s You. If a woman rejects you, maybe …

Honorific Evolution

Over on hellogiggles.com, Kit Steinkellner asks, Is It Time We Stopped Using The Word “Miss?” The use of honorifics is something that has long been …

Soraya Chemaly: A Message to Girls About Religious Men Who Fear You

Fear lives in the shadows of our hearts. It’s easy to exist there, close to the ground, so you don’t have far …

Women as chattel – (Nobody Knows Anything)

My friend Diane nutshelled the insidious religi-political attack on women by a bunch of misogynistic poopy-heads. I’m frankly ashamed that so many …

Pondering Amber Benson’s Relationship Question

On her blog, Amber Benson asks, Why Are Relationships So Hard? Scrolling down to the post’s comment section, you see that simple question generated a flood of comments in a very short amount of time. Apparently, this is a subject very much on people’s minds. And yes—mine, too.

Some top male athletes had a woman as their sports idol (USATODAY.com)

One of those unintended, but very welcome, consequences of letting women excel. Role models are role models. Some top male athletes had …

Why women really are better at almost everything: Q&A with author Dan Abrams (shine.yahoo.com)

I’ve been saying this for almost all of my life. It’s pretty obvious if you pay attention. Why women really are better …

Nancy Lieberman: A new ‘next game’ for Hall of Fame basketball player Nancy Lieberman (latimes.com)

Going back to the 1976 Olympics, I’ve come to expect that Nancy can do anything she wants to do. Men’s basketball is …

Are Men Useful For Anything Other Than Gamete Production?

I have an XY chromosome pair. I say this only as a fact. When I consider the species to which I belong, I can’t help but wonder what possible use the 50-ish percent of us with that particular genetic trait have other than to provide a necessary component for procreation?