Simplicity itself: XX, XY
A while back, commenter “parker” wrote—and I think he spoke for a lot of people when he said it: It is simple, because I admit I am a simpleton. Born XY you are male, Born XX you are female. Now … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex
Hugh Hefner dies at 91
I’m not sure what to say about the life of Hugh Hefner, who has died at 91. In some basic way, Hefner’s world never interested me, although I couldn’t help but notice it. Many of the Hefner obituaries talk about … Continue reading →
Anthony Weiner will be going to jail
Here’s the story. One of the worst things about his offense was that it occurred years after his compulsive sexting behavior was first caught and led to his disgrace. His political career was over, his marriage was on life support, … Continue reading →
HIV prognosis and spread—plus é§a change, plus c’est la méªme chose
It’s been my impression that advances in antiviral drugs in recent years have transformed the treatment of HIV/AIDS, once a death sentence. But I wondered how accurate that perception of mine was.
Continue reading →Why was the movie “Chappaquiddick” made now?
It would seem an odd choice, wouldn’t it? A movie about one of the worst scandals in the life of liberal icon and the last Kennedy man of his generation standing, Ted Kennedy? Even now that Ted is gone, why … Continue reading →
The rights of the accused come back to Title IX
This is an excellent development. I have long been alarmed at the way the accused have been treated by universities under the Title IX campus sexual harassment and/or rape guidelines pushed by the Obama administration, and I’m glad that one … Continue reading →
The PC purpose of the female breast
Here’s the latest PC war: A children’s publisher has bowed to pressure and pulped remaining copies of a puberty guide for boys that claimed girls have breasts for ‘feeding babies and looking grown-up and attractive’. Growing Up for Boys by … Continue reading →
Men and women and the sex and marriage market
There’s a new book out, entitled “Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy.” But the message that lies therein is actually fairly old news. I’ve written about similar ideas before, for example here, here, and in particular here. … Continue reading →
Interesting change story with great quote about the process of political change
The young man in the following video tells his political change story, and in doing so he describes a process that I think—having contemplated the process of political change myself for about a decade and a half—is the heart of … Continue reading →
More on that tedious Google flap
The article of the day is this by Cynthia Lee entitled, “I’m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you.” Lee is “a lecturer in the computer science department at Stanford…[with] a PhD in high-performance … Continue reading →
On job discrimination, gender and otherwise
Commenter Richard Aubrey makes a point that isn’t unusual, and seems quite logical: To say men and women differ in their capability is gender essentialism, which I am told is a Very Bad Thing. But you need to say it … Continue reading →
Google engineer who wrote wrongthink memo is Summersed
I don’t need to go into all the details, because if you follow this link you can get up to speed on them. But the gist of the story is that a senior engineer at Google wrote an internal memo … Continue reading →