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"Men should protect women. They should not shelter behind mothers and daughters."
"Indeed, we see this reality every time there is a mass shooting. Boyfriends throw themselves over girlfriends, and even strangers and acquainta…
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"Why is it that a thing like that — watching a bottle melt in a fire — is such a guy thing — so fascinating for us, so incomprehensible to women?"
John Derbyshire wonders. But let me offer him another way to ask the question: "Why is it that a thing like that — watching a bottle melt in a …
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"Johanna wants to make communal vegetarian meals and keep chickens. Mariel Berger hopes for social, artistic and political collaborations. Harmony Hazard is into hula hooping, book groups and anarchism."
Look out, the NYT has a new style piece . It's very Stuff-White-People-Like. Very women-reader-pleasing. But I actually really love that first pa…
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"Imagine then a world without men... Where women will have babies with other women to produce more women."
"These concepts may seem outrageous now, but they may not seem as strange in the future. 'This is because society’s changing, law is changin…
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"Between 1991 and 2012, the political alignment of US physicians shifted from predominantly Republican toward the Democrats."
"The variables driving this change, including the increasing percentage of female physicians and the decreasing percentage of physicians in solo…
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"Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the grocer’s daughter whose overpowering personality, bruising political style and free-market views..."
"... transformed Britain and transfixed America through the 1980s, died Monday after a stroke, her spokesman said in a statement. She was 87.&qu…
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Experts discover 237 reasons to have sex.
John Tierney writes about a University of Texas study: After asking nearly 2,000 people why they’d had sex, [Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss,] have…
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"How can gender be 100% nurture and sexuality be 100% nature?"
The question of the day, pithily articulated .
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Real househusbands are the subject of a new reality TV show...
... but they just don't dish out the drama like the real housewives.
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How about a pill to increase a woman's sex drive?
But the side effects are dizziness, nausea and fatigue! Do take into account that a nausea pill would be helpful for weight loss. Anyway, the main i…
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"More Women in Their 60s and 70s Are Having ‘Way Too Much Fun’ to Retire."
Headline at the NYT. The article begins: Kay Abramowitz has been working, with a few breaks, since she was 14. Now 76, she is a partner in a law fir…
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"Female serial killers are more rare than their male counterparts, but they aren’t nonexistent; about one in six serial murderers is a woman."
"As a group, they are often overlooked and underestimated," writes Emily Anthes in The New Yorker. The details of the women’s crimes differ…
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"Pentagon officials repeatedly stressed that there will be 'gender-neutral standards' for combat positions."
From NPR's "Women In Combat: 5 Key Questions." For example, to work in a tank, women will have to demonstrate the ability to repeatedly…
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"I am a dating disaster."
Says Abby Ellin, who hired a "dating coach" to get over this attitude: The thought of meeting a stranger, sitting through a drink or meal,…
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Experts discover 237 reasons to have sex.
John Tierney writes about a University of Texas study: After asking nearly 2,000 people why they’d had sex, [Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss,] have…
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"The top 20 cities for male same-sex married couples are more likely to include dense city centers like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago."
"The top 20, while the top 20 cities for female same-sex married couples tend to include smaller and medium-size cities like Springfield, Mass.;…
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"How can gender be 100% nurture and sexuality be 100% nature?"
The question of the day, pithily articulated .
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"There is something that I really do find problematic about the idea of wrestling with a girl, and a part of that does come from my faith and my belief. And a part of that does come from how I was raised to treat women as well as maybe from different experiences and things."
Said Brendan Johnson, quoted in "Rather than wrestle a girl in the state championship, this high schooler forfeited" (WaPo). Johnston, who…
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What? Female narcissism?! It can't be!
XWL encounters a violation of the Althouse rule for gender research. (Note: He's reading an article that we discussed a while back when it appe…
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"The top 20 cities for male same-sex married couples are more likely to include dense city centers like New York, Los Angeles and Chicago."
"The top 20, while the top 20 cities for female same-sex married couples tend to include smaller and medium-size cities like Springfield, Mass.;…
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