January 25, 2013
There’s No Such Thing as Everlasting Love (According to Science) It is what she calls a “micro-moment of positivity resonance.” She means that love is a connection, characterized by a flood of positive emotions, which you share with another person—any other person—whom you happen to connect with in the course of your day. You can experience these micro-moments with your romantic partner, child, or close friend. But you can also fall in love, however momentarily, with less likely candidates, like a stranger on the street, a colleague at work, or an attendant at a grocery store. Louis Armstrong put it best in “It’s a Wonderful World” when he sang, “I see friends shaking hands, sayin ‘how do you do?’ / They’re really sayin’, ‘I love you.’” Read more. [Image: Paramount Pictures]

There’s No Such Thing as Everlasting Love (According to Science)

It is what she calls a “micro-moment of positivity resonance.” She means that love is a connection, characterized by a flood of positive emotions, which you share with another person—any other person—whom you happen to connect with in the course of your day. You can experience these micro-moments with your romantic partner, child, or close friend. But you can also fall in love, however momentarily, with less likely candidates, like a stranger on the street, a colleague at work, or an attendant at a grocery store. Louis Armstrong put it best in “It’s a Wonderful World” when he sang, “I see friends shaking hands, sayin ‘how do you do?’ / They’re really sayin’, ‘I love you.’”

Read more. [Image: Paramount Pictures]

11:10am
(Notes: 1,083)
  
Filed under: Love Science Health Relationships Sex 
January 22, 2013
"I’ve never had an abortion, and at this point in the game, I never will. Nor do I have daughters, so this is not an issue that will affect my own life in any immediate way. But I understand that the reality of women’s and girls’ lives is that they include as strong an impulse for sex as men’s. And maybe because I am a woman, the practical has always had a stronger pull on my emotions than the theoretical. Those old debates about the nature of the human soul have never moved me; surely a soul is no more valuable to God if it exists in this world rather than the next. And a thousand arguments about the beginning of human life will never appeal to me as powerfully as a terrified pregnant girl desperate for a bit of compassion."

— Caitlin Flanagan in the May 2007 edition of The Atlantic

5:29pm
(Notes: 509)
  
Filed under: Women Roe vs. Wade Abortion Politics Sex Gender Health 
January 17, 2013
My Dream College Won’t Accept Me Because I’m a Woman My initial reaction to finding out I couldn’t apply to Deep Springs was anger. These trustees nullified the application that I had spent hours crafting because of an archaic sentence which pertained to “the education of promising young men.” In the fall, I had been given the chance to apply to my dream school, and just a few months later, these trustees took that away from me suddenly, and in my opinion, unfairly. I was hurt. Read more. [Image: Wikimedia Commons]

My Dream College Won’t Accept Me Because I’m a Woman

My initial reaction to finding out I couldn’t apply to Deep Springs was anger. These trustees nullified the application that I had spent hours crafting because of an archaic sentence which pertained to “the education of promising young men.” In the fall, I had been given the chance to apply to my dream school, and just a few months later, these trustees took that away from me suddenly, and in my opinion, unfairly. I was hurt.

Read more. [Image: Wikimedia Commons]

1:24pm
(Notes: 88)
  
Filed under: Women Sex Gender Politics College 
January 14, 2013
The High Price of Being Single in America As two straight women with no desire to get married, we are not against marriage per se. We’re not callous and repressed man-haters. We’re not bitter about ex-boyfriends who cheated or tried to teach us the correct way to pour laundry detergent (ok, well maybe a little bitter about that last one). We’re not even necessarily uncomfortable with the institution’s arguable gender expectations and socio-political history. We just don’t much care whether we’re married, or not. But governments and corporations do. Read more. [Image: Universal]

The High Price of Being Single in America

As two straight women with no desire to get married, we are not against marriage per se. We’re not callous and repressed man-haters. We’re not bitter about ex-boyfriends who cheated or tried to teach us the correct way to pour laundry detergent (ok, well maybe a little bitter about that last one). We’re not even necessarily uncomfortable with the institution’s arguable gender expectations and socio-political history. We just don’t much care whether we’re married, or not. But governments and corporations do.

Read more. [Image: Universal]

12:14pm
(Notes: 220)
  
Filed under: Women Sex Gender Relationships Single Dating Politics 
November 28, 2012
Catching the References in ‘Hitchcock,’ From ‘The Birds’ to the Blondes While Psycho was considered a risky departure for Hitchcock, the film shared much with the director’s prior work, ranging from the influence of ’20s German Expressionist cinema to Hitchcock’s obsession with beautiful blondes, voyeurism, and split identities. Read more. [Image: Fox Searchlight]

Catching the References in ‘Hitchcock,’ From ‘The Birds’ to the Blondes

While Psycho was considered a risky departure for Hitchcock, the film shared much with the director’s prior work, ranging from the influence of ’20s German Expressionist cinema to Hitchcock’s obsession with beautiful blondes, voyeurism, and split identities.

Read more. [Image: Fox Searchlight]

4:40pm
(Notes: 67)
  
Filed under: Hitchcock Film Women Sex Horror Entertainment 
November 27, 2012

Onion Convinces Actual Chinese Communists Kim Jong-un Is Actually Sexiest Man Alive

We’re not here to debate whether or not North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, is the sexiest man alive. No, we’re here to snicker that The Onion fooled China’s communist paper into thinking it so. The actual article from the People’s Daily Online, the official newspaper of China’s communist party, isn’t much more than taking a few quotes from the Onion article and smacking them onto a 55-PAGE SLIDESHOW GALLERY of Kim looking all majestic and whatnot.

Read more. [Image: The Korea Times, People’s Daily Online]

10:24am
(Notes: 1,078)
  
Filed under: China North Korea South Korea Kim Jong-un Sex 
November 26, 2012
"In the end, we don’t just hate women. We hate ourselves. There’s a lot of juice in confronting not women, not the object, but the subject; in honing in on that part of our makeup which seems bent on our humiliation."

— Ta-Nehisi Coates on misogyny and masculinity in film.

3:40pm
(Notes: 177)
  
Filed under: Art Film Masculinity Power Sex misogeny 
November 16, 2012
At Its Core, the ‘Twilight’ Saga Is a Story About ________ TO THE NAKED EYE, IT MAY APPEAR THAT: The Twilight saga is a story about love. And vampires. And family. And abstinence. And racism. And the founding of the Mormon faith. And orphans, in a really weird way. BUT ACCORDING TO SOME EXPERTS WHO THOUGHT REALLY HARD ABOUT THIS: Twilight is a story about all of these things. And more things. Read more. [Image: Summit Entertainment]

At Its Core, the ‘Twilight’ Saga Is a Story About ________

TO THE NAKED EYE, IT MAY APPEAR THAT: The Twilight saga is a story about love. And vampires. And family. And abstinence. And racism. And the founding of the Mormon faith. And orphans, in a really weird way.

BUT ACCORDING TO SOME EXPERTS WHO THOUGHT REALLY HARD ABOUT THIS: Twilight is a story about all of these things. And more things.

Read more. [Image: Summit Entertainment]

11:50am
(Notes: 108)
  
Filed under: Twilight Feminism Literature Writing Ideology Religion Sex 
November 13, 2012
How to Avoid an Affair: Admit That You Could, Conceivably, Have an Affair Almost anyone is capable of cheating, given the right circumstances. The trick is to avoid compromising situations in the first place. Read more. [Image: Christopher Berkey/AP Images]

How to Avoid an Affair: Admit That You Could, Conceivably, Have an Affair

Almost anyone is capable of cheating, given the right circumstances. The trick is to avoid compromising situations in the first place.

Read more. [Image: Christopher Berkey/AP Images]

12:12pm
(Notes: 66)
  
Filed under: Infidelity Marriage Sex Petraeus Military 
November 7, 2012
"It needs to be said that the GOP’s retrograde positions on gender, and general ignorance of human biology, has evidently cost them a shot at the Senate."

— Ta-Nehisi Coates 

9:10am
(Notes: 326)
  
Filed under: Politics Gender Women Sex GOP Election 2012 
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