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  • Polanski

    Just because an adult is sexually stimulated by the sight or actions of a child does not excuse his actions. Your author attempts to excuse Polanski by saying the thirteen-year-old victim he raped behaved provocatively. So where does this slippery slope end? With the three-year-old tot who has learned that ''flirting'' melts an adult and yields ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Mary Golden on October 14, 2009

  • Hari Sufficiently Condems 'The East, The West, and Sex'

    This was a blistering review by Johann Hari of Richard Bernstein's book on how Euro-American sexual mores changed those of the Middle and Far East through the centuries — and vice-versa. '...Only a hundred or so pages in, the scent of testosterone and spent semen soaked into its pages becomes bewildering,' Hari writes in his second ...
    Posted to Books by Ankhorite on June 30, 2009

  • Now I am no social scientist, but I play one on TV

    Now I am no social scientist, and this argument may be riddled with empirical holes. But it strikes me as intuitively obvious that in order to succeed in a white man's world, women must learn to see both sides in ways that men do not. It is filled with empirical holes, and yet you forged ahead anyway in an unscientific manner. What other ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by philmon on June 12, 2009

  • An Analysis of Sotomayor's and Scalia's Lawyer Comments

    Rosen cites the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary to support his sexist diatribe against Sotomayor. But, he neglects to do a couple of things. First, the Almanac is NOT an official publication of the federal judiciary or the American Bar Association. Instead, it is a listing of unscientific, often racist and sexist, commentary about judges. The ...
    Posted to XX Factor by darrren12000 on May 9, 2009

  • Thank You, Sussanah Breslin

    Thank you, Sussanah, for being bold enough to criticize ''bad wives''. I know so many women who act entitled to bash men without any restraint, even (or especially) the men who are closest to them. It seems as if these women have no empathy for men at all, or even see us as real humans who can experience the same type of emotional pain that they ...
    Posted to XX Factor by wavevector on May 8, 2009

  • Prudy is so sexist

    I've thought this for a while now. Almost always, it's the woman's fault, she's not telling the whole story in her letter, she's an evil stepmother/golddigger/slut/screetching harpy/insert sexist stereotype here, and all the men who write to her are good, decent, lovable Joe Schmoes who deserve the benefit of the doubt. I mean, really now? Just ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by ms6881 on April 24, 2009

  • "Busty Redhead"

    ''Lindsay Lohan has an eHarmony spoof ad up at Funny Or Die , which New York 's Jessica Pressler rightly credits as performing ''the awesome feat of getting you to re-like'' the busty redhead in spite of the mess she has become—or rather, because she is so self-aware of said mess.'' This was the deck for your Lohan piece. It features ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Boris Gunn on April 14, 2009

  • If anything...

    trying to use what you thought were common references actually blunted your point. I read Alice in Wonderland, and like NamVet, I did not think of that story, at all, when I read your first two references. I thought Jefferson Airplane, and Fuzzy Cute Things, respectively. In fact, the only one of your sets of references that made sense to me ...
    Posted to Best of the Fray by catnapping on January 27, 2009

  • Bushisms & Palinisms During Initial Campaigns Were Identical

    These carefully ranked malapropisms are quite funny. Equally funny and much sadder is to re-visit one or two of Bush's hilarious interviews in 1999 and 2000 -- and compare them with Sarah Palin interviews in 2008. It is difficult to remember how unschooled Bush was in foreign and domestic affairs as he set out for the highest office. Bush ...
    Posted to Bushisms by john adkisson on January 17, 2009

  • to this day...

    i still feel like dresses are more feminine than slacks...and honey, i fought wearing dresses even as a little girl. it's amazing the hold all those early images hold...
    Posted to Best of the Fray by catnapping on December 6, 2008
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