From Judith Warner’s Poor Sarah: “On Tuesday afternoon when I went to The Times Web site and saw the photo of Sarah Palin with Henry Kissinger, a funny thing happened. A wave of self-recognition and sympathy washed over me. That’s right — self-recognition and sympathy. Rising up from a source deep in my subconscious. I [...]
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Toke Like a Girl
August 20, 2007 – 10:17 am
From The Stranger’s article, entitled, Toke Like a Girl: “Perhaps the obstacle to female toking is a fear of looking lazy. Getting stoned is, in effect, a great way to relax. Men are allowed to be lazy—being stoned is part of their farting, pajama-wearing, video-game-playing pantheon of acceptable male relaxation techniques…But modern women are not [...]
Links for June 13, 2007
June 13, 2007 – 02:56 pm
Updated: 9:00 p.m.
Woman jailed for testicle attack: “Amanda Monti, 24, flew into a rage when Geoffrey Jones, 37, rejected her advances at the end of a house party…She pulled off his left testicle and tried to swallow it, before spitting it out. A friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: ‘That’s yours.’”
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50 Things She Wishes You Knew
April 2, 2007 – 05:13 pm
From 50 Things She Wishes You Knew: “Universal truths that all men should–but don’t–understand.” According to Men’s Health anyway. What do you say, ladies of Fluid Imagination, how many did they get right?
For Girls, It’s Be Yourself, and Be Perfect, Too
April 1, 2007 – 12:24 pm
From For Girls, It’s Be Yourself, and Be Perfect, Too: For all their accomplishments and ambitions, the amazing girls, as their teachers and classmates [at Newton North High School, just outside of Boston] call them, are not immune to the…message: While it is now cool to be smart, it is not enough to be smart. [...]
More men taking wives’ last names
March 22, 2007 – 06:29 pm
From More men taking wives last names: “The California Legislature is set to consider a bill this month that would allow men to change their surnames upon marriage as seamlessly as women now can. Only seven states now allow a man who wishes to alter his name after his wedding to do so without going [...]
Queens of the Stone Age
March 22, 2007 – 05:17 pm
From Queens of the Stone Age:
“‘Women are the only primates in which the baby is born facing the rear,’ the authors [of The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory] explain, and this in turn makes them the only animals that ’seek and get assistance in the birth process.’ Other primates, whose [...]
Men infer sexual interest before women do
June 13, 2006 – 01:07 pm
From the Captain Obvious department: In the latest issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly, researchers discover that men infer sexual interest before women do. “The authors find that after a five-minute conversation with a stranger of the opposite gender, men were more likely to interpret ambiguous or friendly behavior as indicating sexual interest. ‘The [...]
