I confess I haven’t yet read Helen Smith’s book Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream – and Why It Matters, but it sounds fascinating. I’m quite familiar with Helen Smith’s work in general … Continue reading →
The Hamms’ divorce makes “The War of the Roses” look like a love fest. Lessons, anyone? (1) For the rich and especially the mega-rich: pre-nups are your friend. (2) If he/she will cheat with you, he/she is likely to cheat … Continue reading →
…was a 35-year-old pregnant sometime-actress and mother of five who was trying to frame the husband who had initiated divorce proceedings against her? Egad. You can’t make this stuff up. Well, maybe you can, if you’re a grade-B movie writer. … Continue reading →
And now for something completely different. You may not have heard of it but there are some women who claim to have orgasms during birth. Not their birth, that is; while giving birth to their babies. Each seems equally improbable, … Continue reading →
Actually, I wouldn’t recommend marrying a twice-murdering psychopath, but my advice has not been solicited. Note that the prospective bride, Leydi Figueroa Uceda, seems to have a pattern of prison romance. The couple is planning a June wedding, if authorities … Continue reading →
Prostate cancer and breast cancer have a lot in common, although they’re very different as well. The first affects men only, and the second almost entirely women (although about one in a hundred breast cancer patients are men, a fact … Continue reading →
To me the most interesting thing—and probably the only interesting thing—about NBA basketball player Jason Collins’ announcement that he’s gay, has been ex-fiance Carolyn Moos’ statement that she hadn’t a clue about it in the 8 years she’d dated (and … Continue reading →
…and what’s more, they seem to be more truthful about their weight when asked. But the most interesting thing to me about the survey described in the article was this: “Everybody underreports their weight but women do it more,” Howard … Continue reading →
Ah, doesn’t it sound like enormous fun to be a college student in the era of the casual hookup? Not. Oh, I know some people find it fun. Or perhaps they just tell themselves they find it fun. And I … Continue reading →
Heather Wilhem rightly skewers an idea that has long seemed to me absurd on its face (and that many women, and even some men, seem to believe): that if women were in charge of the world, it would somehow be … Continue reading →
In the annals of embarrassing-mother moments, Susan Patton’s letter to the Princeton paper—exhorting girls (women?) at the school to look around at wonderful guys such as her son (a student there) and consider them a great pool of marriage material … Continue reading →
Here’s another story about love coming late in life, which seems to be an emerging theme for today. I also love the fact that this reunited couple both report having had happy marriages before they got back together (after becoming … Continue reading →