Madonna…
..keeps on…trucking. I never had a taste for whatever it is she does. But anyway, she’s still doing it. At nearly 60.
Continue reading →Category Archives: Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex
Bret Easton Ellis on identity politics
I’ve never read anything by Bret Easton Ellis before. One reason is that I don’t like fiction all that much unless it’s fabulous, and I definitely don’t like violent fiction, which by all accounts American Psycho (Ellis’s most popular novel) … Continue reading →
Les Moonves: #HeToo
I confess that I’d never heard of Les Moonves before the recent accusations of sexual harassment came out against him. I also have a general attitude against unverified allegations of this type, which I’ve expressed many times before, and it … Continue reading →
Come and get those pheromones
“Low-cost pheromones!!” a bot that tried to post today on the blog advertised. I used to get up to 10,000 spambots a day here, the vast majority trapped in a spam filter than I had to clean out several times … Continue reading →
It’s not about the nail!
Why don’t you LISTEN? [Hat tip: commenter “T”] I can’t believe I’ve never seen that before. So funny! [NOTE: This post was originally on my older blog and had comments, but unfortunately the comments didn’t transfer over here.]
Continue reading →Trouble among the Swedish literati
And I mean big, big trouble. No Nobel Prize in literature will be awarded this year as a result. Pity (that’s sarcasm, in case it’s not clear). That first link I gave is to a very long story about the … Continue reading →
Some advice in dealing with sibling fighting, from an op-ed in the NY Times
Bad and even dangerous advice, I might add, although neither uniformly bad nor uniformly dangerous. The author’s general suggestion is to let them be to work it out themselves, and/or to treat (or punish) them equally, which is actually quite … Continue reading →
A modern twist on stalking
Stalking isn’t funny; it’s serious and frightening. And this University of Central Florida professor who stalked a PhD student sounds remarkably obsessive about it: Ali Borji, a 39-year-old assistant professor in the school’s Department of Computer Science, was arrested at … Continue reading →
Men and women, attraction and humor
Here’s an article purporting to tell us what makes men more appealing to women. The list (apparently in no particular order) is supposedly based on research and contains seemingly contradictory things like “wear a scented deodorant” and “eat garlic.” Who … Continue reading →
Should reporters sleep with their sources?
Of course not. But sometimes they do, and apparently they have since time immemorial. At the link you’ll find two colorful quotes on the subject. The first is from NY Times editor A.M. Rosenthal in the late 70s, who said … Continue reading →
Ah, if only women were in charge of the world, what a wonderful world it would be
Not. Suzanna Danuta Walters, the author of the piece in that link, is a professor of sociology at Northeastern University as well as director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program there and editor of a gender studies journal … Continue reading →
Chase Johnsey: the male ballerina
[Hat tip: commenter “ColoComment”] Chase Johnsey is a man identifying as “gender fluid,” but he dances female corps roles for the English National Ballet. In modern times, it’s not unheard of in ballet for men to dance as women, but … Continue reading →