1. 14 Nov


    Photo: AP Photo/Cliff Owen There’s the notion that the affair is somehow Broadwell’s fault. How could Petraeus resist? Broadwell with her “form-fitting” clothes, “tight skirts,” and “toned arms” — in other words, “a shameless self-promoting prom queen” and a “slut” to boot — apparently “got her claws” into him. “The anecdotes and chatter that implicitly or explicitly wonder at the spidery wiles she must have used to throw the mighty man off his path are laughably ignorant of history,” says Frank Bruni at The New York Times, “which suggests that mighty men are all too ready to tumble, loins first.” And it’s further evidence that women are “unfairly assigned the role of gatekeepers of sexual morality,” says Alison Yarrow at The Daily Beast, “a designation that makes them easy to blame when men fall short.” Why the media’s coverage of the David Patraeus affair is sexist

    Photo: AP Photo/Cliff Owen

    There’s the notion that the affair is somehow Broadwell’s fault. How could Petraeus resist? Broadwell with her “form-fitting” clothes, “tight skirts,” and “toned arms” — in other words, “a shameless self-promoting prom queen” and a “slut” to boot — apparently “got her claws” into him. “The anecdotes and chatter that implicitly or explicitly wonder at the spidery wiles she must have used to throw the mighty man off his path are laughably ignorant of history,” says Frank Bruni at The New York Times, “which suggests that mighty men are all too ready to tumble, loins first.” And it’s further evidence that women are “unfairly assigned the role of gatekeepers of sexual morality,” says Alison Yarrow at The Daily Beast, “a designation that makes them easy to blame when men fall short.”

    Why the media’s coverage of the David Patraeus affair is sexist

    (Source: theweek.com)

     

  2. 5 Sep


    “Everybody has the right to have their health care needs met, whether they are in prison or out on the streets. People in the prisons who have bad hearts, hips, or knees have surgery to repair those things. My medical needs are no less important or more important than the person in the cell next to me.”  In 1993, Michelle Kosilek, who then went by Robert, was convicted in the 1990 murder of his wife, Cheryl Kosilek. Also in 1993, Kosilek officially changed his name to Michelle. Diagnosed with severe gender identity disorder, Kosilek has been living as a woman in an otherwise all-male prison in Norfolk, Mass., for the last two decades. In a potentially groundbreaking ruling, a federal judge has ordered Massachusetts to let a transgender prisoner undergo a sex-change operation — and make taxpayers foot the bill.  Keep reading…

    “Everybody has the right to have their health care needs met, whether they are in prison or out on the streets. People in the prisons who have bad hearts, hips, or knees have surgery to repair those things. My medical needs are no less important or more important than the person in the cell next to me.” 

    In 1993, Michelle Kosilek, who then went by Robert, was convicted in the 1990 murder of his wife, Cheryl Kosilek. Also in 1993, Kosilek officially changed his name to Michelle. Diagnosed with severe gender identity disorder, Kosilek has been living as a woman in an otherwise all-male prison in Norfolk, Mass., for the last two decades.

    In a potentially groundbreaking ruling, a federal judge has ordered Massachusetts to let a transgender prisoner undergo a sex-change operation — and make taxpayers foot the bill. 

    Keep reading…

     

  3. 1 Jun



    How marriage has changed over centuries

    Critics of gay marriage see it as an affront to sacred, time-tested traditions. In actuality, the institution has been in a process of constant evolution.

    The ancient Hebrews, for instance, engaged in polygamy — according to the Bible, King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines — and men have taken multiple wives in cultures throughout the world, including China, Africa, and among American Mormons in the 19th century. Polygamy is still common across much of the Muslim world.

    The idea of marriage as a sexually exclusive, romantic union between one man and one woman is a relatively recent development. Until two centuries ago, said Harvard historian Nancy Cott, “monogamous households were a tiny, tiny portion” of the world population, found in “just Western Europe and little settlements in North America.”

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  4. 9 May


    Yogurt: The secret to male sexual prowess Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were using mice to study how eating yogurt affects weight gain when they noticed something strange. “You know when someone’s at the top of their game, and they carry themselves differently?” explained one researcher. “Well, imagine that in a mouse.” Not only were yogurt-fed rodents noticeably slimmer than their peers, but the males exhibited a distinct sexual “swagger,” complete with shinier fur and more pronounced… features

    Yogurt: The secret to male sexual prowess

    Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were using mice to study how eating yogurt affects weight gain when they noticed something strange.

    “You know when someone’s at the top of their game, and they carry themselves differently?” explained one researcher. “Well, imagine that in a mouse.”

    Not only were yogurt-fed rodents noticeably slimmer than their peers, but the males exhibited a distinct sexual “swagger,” complete with shinier fur and more pronounced… features

     

  5. 18 May


    Male model Andrej Pejic appears on the most recent cover of Dossier Journal. While some magazines may be comfortable blurring the lines between male and female identities, it became clear this week that some retailers who sell those magazines are not. Barnes & Noble and Borders have reportedly asked Dossier’s publishers to cover the magazine in the opaque plastic usually reserved for pornographic content, so as not to make customers uncomfortable. The problem, they say, is that Pejic looks too much like a topless woman.

    Male model Andrej Pejic appears on the most recent cover of Dossier Journal. While some magazines may be comfortable blurring the lines between male and female identities, it became clear this week that some retailers who sell those magazines are not.

    Barnes & Noble and Borders have reportedly asked Dossier’s publishers to cover the magazine in the opaque plastic usually reserved for pornographic content, so as not to make customers uncomfortable. The problem, they say, is that Pejic looks too much like a topless woman.