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  • No, you DON'T talk to you mom too much

    I fail to see this as so much a ''Gen Y'' thing as it is a return to ''pre Gen X'' values. I was born in 1959. Growing up, my entire family - grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, both paternal and maternal - lived in the same town or in nearby towns. My mother talked to her mother every day by phone, and often talked to her sisters as well. ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by StellaBlue on May 9, 2009

  • Running for office with family

    I get a little frustrated when people say things such as, ''We wouldn't have these questions if she were a man,'' in this case regarding Palin's responsibilities when she has a special-need newborn, along with other serious family issues. Certainly, there are those who see female candidates (and working women, for that matter) through this prism. ...
    Posted to The Chat Room by Katherine Sheppard on September 5, 2008

  • Evidence?

    So nice of the XXers to blog about how the family courts are allegedly biased against men. Where is the factual evidence? I don't give a hoot about all these anecdotes. Show me some data that say that, all things being equal, a mother will win custody of the children due to gender bias. It's not possible because each case is unique and must be ...
    Posted to XX Factor by parker on August 5, 2008

  • Would You Deny A Man's Need to Protect Women?

    Perhaps this is a most appropriate forum to raise my disliked topic given this forum's Highbrow title and my viewpoint often condescendingly framed as being Lowbrow. In any case, while pop editorialists ponder whether America needs men to protect the women in their lives, the call of human nature goes unabaded in every new generation. It is an ...
    Posted to The Highbrow by Usama2 on November 20, 2007