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As you may or may not be surprised to learn, searching for videos on children, gender and toys using the search terms “girls toys” returned a decent amount of pornographic results. But it also yielded a great trove of information on the current state of the children’s toy-making and marketing industry. Here’s the adorable video … Read more
Too Ugly for Love
Full disclosure: I am convinced my face is asymmetrical, my nose is bulbous and my body is ill-proportioned. And no matter how many people comment on my appearance, the only ones I can hear are the ones who affirm those facts. Those are the only ones that strike me as true and credible. I don’t … Read more
Hugo Schwyzer: Male Feminist/ Lightning Rod
I first encountered history and gender studies professor Dr. Hugo Schwyzer‘s work on the Good Men Project, a site that aims to be an enlightened, cerebral counterpoint to glossy lad mags. I was struck by how surprisingly validating it was to have a dude say things about feminism with which I agreed. Not that I needed … Read more
Living with Size Zero
If you ask a random woman what she would like to change about herself, odds are decent she will say something weight-related. Within that answer, most would probably say they want to be smaller, with less fat. This preference for thinness usually exceeds interest in health. In fact, some survey research has found that most … Read more
A Thought in Three Parts
A Thought in Three Parts is a “notoriously seldom produced” play written by Wallace Shawn (Inconceivable!) The reason is it so rarely put on stage is that the second part (of the three) is roughly 30 minutes of on-stage nudity and something like 20 sexual acts resulting in orgasm. When it first appeared in London … Read more
