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Using Insults To Pick Up Women
The pick up artist game
Men may have success using insults to pick up women — if both the men and the women involved are misogynists, say researchers. Read the rest of this entry
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Colleges Need Quotas Favoring Men?
Female privilege versus male privilege
By A.K. Whitney @ The Ms. Magazine Blog
Every year as a new school semester begins, someone writes an ominous article about the fact that more women are graduating from college these days than men.
The latest hand-wringing salvo comes from famed anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, and it’s a doozy. Schlafly wrote on World Net Daily that not only is this imbalance bad for men, but also for women, since a dearth of males on campus puts a crimp in women’s plans to find husbands, leading them instead to pursue meaningless sex. Schlafly writes: Read the rest of this entry
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High School “Salute” Spurs Sexism
Owen Labrie and St. Paul’s School
Owen Labrie is charged with raping a fifteen year old while trying to “score” in a high school game dubbed “the Senior Salute.”
Whether or not he is guilty, the game institutionalizes sexism. And it’s the sort of thing that can spur assault. Read the rest of this entry
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Scientists = Men, Say Biased Scientists
Gender bias in science
If men are better systematizers — better at unraveling the rules of the universe — then it’s only fair that science research labs are bastions of testosterone.
Biased (unscientific) research has made it seem so. Read the rest of this entry
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Women and Gay, Hot Bods
Why do (some) women watch gay porn?
Why do women — especially lesbians — watch gay porn?
Well, not all women – probably a minority of them. But still.
I recently wrote that gay porn stars seem to have more fun than their straight female counterparts.
But gay porn stars are also HOT.
And how much of the allure comes from spotlighting — shall we say — a certain part of the male physique? Read the rest of this entry
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The Hairy Gender Gap
However hair is styled, it says something about gender. Let’s take a look at recent Western history.
Men and women both have long hair, but…
In the 18th-century men and women both kept their hair long — but women’s stylings were more elaborate and ornate, as with King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette (as played by Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman, pictured here):
Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI
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Are Men Mentally Tougher?
Tough guise
Men are strong and stoic and women are weak and dependent, right?
That’s the stereotype. But stereotypes can create social patterns. And surprisingly, things that appear weak may turn out to be strong. And vice versa. Read the rest of this entry
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Hooking Up Deprives Women of Marriage?
College hookup culture?
Women should stop hooking up because it stalls men’s maturity and keeps them from getting married. A lot of young women will never marry because men can get sex without commitment.
That’s what what a young man told me a few weeks ago. Read the rest of this entry
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Love Hurts Others
Love hurts
We all know that lost love and unrequited love hurts. But as a headline from Live Science points out, “Love Hurts (Other People)” too.
Florida State researchers surveyed 130 hetero students in long-term relationships on their levels of jealousy (e.g., “How likely are you to surprise-visit your partner to see who is with him/her?”). Read the rest of this entry
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Women Make Men Dumber
Talking to an attractive woman really can make a man lose his mind.
So says The Telegraph. Read the rest of this entry
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