Figleaf has some interesting posts about a stunning imbalance in sex research. Most of the time, sex research and popular coverage of sex research is about women and/or vaginas. Does the G spot really exist? How does female arousal work? What are women attracted to? How does the vagina function? How many women have orgasms, how…
Monday Roundup
It seems a bit odd to be Monday Roundup’ing stuff that happened on the very same site that this blog is posted on, but I know a lot of people just read NSWATM and not the GMP, and I’m sure you don’t want to miss Noah being awesome. Speaking of! Here is Noah Brand naked.…
Teaching Boys to Be Good Men?
The Globe and Mail ran an interesting article on a various programs that are trying to teach boys to be good men. I tend to be suspicious of programs that teach boys to be good men, because they make me wonder why we aren’t teaching kids to be good people. Being a good person has very…
Open Thread, Vacation Edition
This Open Thread has been brought to you by plausible ideas of what feminists are like. I’m going on vacation to Chicago to see the Fields Museum, and also something about a wedding shower or something. But mostly giant fucking T. Rex. I won’t have the Internet. Don’t smash the place while I’m gone, okay?
Oral HPV More Prevalent Among Men Than Women
Hat tip to Tobias. The Internal Medicine News covers a study showing that oral HPV is three times more prevalent among men than women. Oral HPV has been linked to something called “oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma,” which is apparently cancer of the middle part of the throat (the tonsils, soft palate, and the base of the…
Most Disgusting Sentence In An Academic Paper Award
I would like to present this year’s Most Disgusting Sentence in an Academic Paper award. I realize it’s somewhat early in the year, but I don’t think that we’re going to find a sentence more disgusting. In addition, these findings provide circumstantial support for one hypothesized function of the emotion of sexual attraction—to motivate men to pursue women…
Fuck Off Tracy McMillan
Tracy McMillan is a lady who makes her living telling women why they aren’t married. (She’s an expert in this subject, you see, because she has been married three times.) She has recently showed up to explain four more reasons to add to the original six why you, O Heterosexual Lady, have not yet fulfilled your gender destiny…
How Not To Hit On People
This is my biggest piece of advice, and it ought to be really reassuring to a lot of awkward people. If you genuinely are kind and mean well and are interested in other people, most people can tell.
The Atlantic: Please Stop Helping
The Atlantic recently ran an article about how the US economy is biased against men. My response? Please, please stop helping. You’re making the rest of us look bad. It’s ridiculous to say “there are many programs to help women succeed” without saying why there are many programs to help women succeed: because for hundreds of…
Link Roundup!
A bunch of shiny links below the cut to all the interesting things people who aren’t me are talking about in the Series of Tubes.
Memorial Day
Today is Memorial Day in the United States, a day of remembering all the men and women who have died in the Armed Forces. War is hell. Sometimes it is necessary, and I mourn those who have died in those wars; many times it is not, and I mourn even more those who died not…
Welcome, GMPers!
So, apparently we’ve moved! Fuck, I have to stop taking a vacation now and actually post. My life is so haaaaaaaard. GMPers, you may not know much about me. I’m Ozy Frantz! I’m the person who posts most often on NSWATM. I swear a lot, I’m a college student, I’d call myself a radical feminist…
Open Thread, It’s Friday Somewhere Edition
This Open Thread has been brought to you by what Ozy was doing the whole time zie was taking an unannounced vacation.
Monday Roundup
This is an extra-special edition of the Monday Roundup, with an Exciting Fucking Announcement on the bottom! Noah Brand On the Good Men Project: is the Violence Against Women Act sexist? The Weird Porn article, which first ran on NSWATM, has been rerun on Jezebel and AlterNet. AlterNet has the most delightfully assholish commenters of…
Teenage Boys and Virginity Loss
Ozy Frantz breaks down the numbers in a CDC report on teenage sex. Spoiler alert: reality does not resemble stereotypes very well.
TV Incredibly Sexist, Ozy Feels Need To Rant About This For Some Reason
While watching the Tim Burton flick Dark Shadows (it’s very Tim Burton), I was able to witness advertisements for new TV shows, because God forbid we have a single second in the theater where we’re not dying of advertisements. These included the sitcoms Men at Work and Baby Daddy. Were they incredibly sexist? Of COURSE they…