Breaking up isn’t hard to do
So, here’s my question: This was written by a guy? In particular, I find it hard to believe that reason #3 for the breakup emerged from the mind of a man: You are rude to my cat and that makes … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex
The Bill Cosby rape allegations
My thoughts on the subject of the multiple rape allegations against Bill Cosby: (1) I have no idea whether Bill Cosby is guilty of rape. Neither do you, and neither does anybody except Cosby, and each woman who has accused … Continue reading →
Matt Taylor and his shirt
I have a lot more to say about the furor over Matt Taylor’s shirt, but I don’t have time for a longer post at the moment, although I might write one later. But for now I’ll just say that I … Continue reading →
What was that again about gay marriage and religious freedom?
Ah, yes: The Giffords, who own the bucolic Liberty Ridge Farm in upstate New York, were ordered to pay a total of $13,000 ”” a $10,000 fine to the state and another $1,500 to each member of a lesbian couple … Continue reading →
SCOTUS will probably be facing the music…
…on gay marriage, now that circuit courts are split on the issue: In one sweeping decision, the Sixth Circuit has given all of the states in its geographic region a victory for their bans on both initial marriages of same-sex … Continue reading →
Lena Dunham and intersibling abuse
Let’s start out this way: I cannot stand Lena Dunham. Can’t stand her show, her attitude, her politics, you name it. And I haven’t read her book, and don’t have any intention of doing so. Also, it goes without saying … Continue reading →
The PC crowd and academic freedom
One would think that Robert Oscar Lopez, “Latino child of lesbians” who is also bisexual himself, might be in with the PC crowd. But questioning some of the tenets of their narrative trumps even those identifying credentials. Mr. Lopez is … Continue reading →
What do women want?
The answer to that age-old question?: Republicans. At least, that’s the answer at the moment, 44% to 42%. [NOTE: The title of this post is a riff on Freud’s Freud’s famous question to Marie Bonaparte: The great question that has … Continue reading →
Looking back at the magic
Ace has a post about people who’ve soured on Obama that contains some extraordinary quotes from the past. It’s easy to forget exactly how fulsome the praise was back then in its cultlike extremity. Here’s a passage Tina Brown wrote … Continue reading →
We know that Republicans are the stupid party…
But apparently they’ve gotten a tad better at countering the “war on women” this election cycle. Good. My personal observation is that in 2012 the “war on women” caught Republicans flat-footed (what doesn’t?), and it really mattered. Quite a few … Continue reading →
I’m not surprised…
…that this is happening. I’m surprised that it’s happening in Nebraska: A Nebraska school district has instructed its teachers to stop referring to students by “gendered expressions” such as “boys and girls,” and use “gender inclusive” ones such as “purple … Continue reading →
The Supreme Court punts on gay marriage
Which is also a decision, because the trend in the lower courts is to declare its ban unconstitutional: Jonathan Adler writes that the Supreme Court might still take a case in the future, but I don’t see how that is … Continue reading →