This comment was by Anthony Zarat on the post “When It Comes To Birth Control, Where Are The Men?”
“Theoretically a man could worry that he’s addicted to porn and it turns out he’s really not. Is there room in the diagnostic system for that possibility?”
If his partner has a problem with his porn use, then that’s not necessarily evidence by itself he’s addicted.
“The Creepy Crawlers oven and the EZ Bake oven are the exact same product with different colors and marketing”
“Gendering products makes good business sense, so I doubt it will go away whether it’s good for anyone else or not.”
“If you’re picturing some ejaculate-and-wait kind of dad, you’re not picturing me.”
“If my wife had argued that pregnancy only affected her and not me, I would have been…I don’t even know. Furious is the word that comes to mind.”
“Had an espresso…it was like never having done drugs and then jumping right to speedballing.”
I didn’t drink a single drop of coffee until I was almost 34.
“A song by Northern Pikes ‘She Ain’t Pretty She Just Looks That Way’ is about this very point.”
“If a man only considers how a woman looks and how she behaves in the sack…he’s a complete moron.”
“Love and pre-sex hormones make us stupid.”
This comment was by Liam Johnson on the post “The uncomfortable truth about educated people and unprotected sex.”
Moral Relativism vs. Cultural Relativism
…philosophers generally think that something is ‘relative’ if and only if a) two agents can disagree about some fact about the world b) mean the same thing and c) there is nothing that would settle the matter.
“I was talking to a friend about the time he was shot…His mom never found out.”
At a certain point your kids were prefer that you weren’t cool.
“You’re directly fueling the fire of his bravado.”
This comment was from Mark Radcliffe on Chris Brown, Woody Allen and Other Bad Men
Zimbardo: Men Would Rather Watch Football Than F*** Jennifer Lopez
Philip Zimbardo is worried about the future of men.
“When I was in a men’s group in 1972, I distinctly remember feeling edgy when we would hug.”
“My son and daughter keep reminding me that things are changing.” The times they are a changin’ (comment and Marco Magnani video cover of Bob Dylan song.)
Narratives: The Stories We Tell Each Other and Ourselves
Nikki B. and Simone want us to move the discussion past the superficial level.
Say Good-bye to “That’s So Gay”: On the Decline of Homophobia
Mark McCormack: “We do no-one any favors if we only fight prejudice that is, for some, yesterday’s battle.”
“Want to scare the crap out of the politicians in Washington? Figure out what we all agree on”
“This issue of how to reduce the reactivity on our political discourse is central to my thinking of late.”
“With non-Western cultures, you really have to humble yourself and drop a western centric view to at least understand them.”
This comment was from Spidaman3 on the post Headscarves and Men Holding Hands: Coming Out as a Cultural Relativist