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American Studies professor Jo B. Paoletti has announced the publication of her book, Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America. I've been eagerly anticipating getting my hands on a copy. It was from Paoletti that I learned that the idea that pink was a feminine and blue a masculine color was a relatively new invention in American history (one that even now does not necessarily extend to other countries). See, for example, this pink 1920s birthday card for a man (with a pre-Nazi swastika too). More »
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Well, here's something that's not all that surprising: guys are more likely to do good deeds if there's a pretty lady present. A little more interesting is the fact that the presence of a sexy dude doesn't seem to change ladies' do-gooding behavior at all. More »
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A German dad sounds like he needs a lesson from the princess boy's family — he's apparently threatening to put his 11-year-old daughter in a mental institution because she's transgender. More »
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A new study shows that coke addiction might look different depending on the gender of the addict. While ladies are more likely to crave the drug in response to stress, guys seem to want coke in response to ... coke. More »
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Romance novels aren't typically bastions of gender diversity, but the new title Two Spirit Ranch does have an interesting premise: More »
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An ad featuring a white man and a black woman locked in a naked, Trojan-commercial embrace with the tagline, "In OUR future, you wouldn't look twice," has given all the dormant racists in post-apartheid South Africa something to gripe about this week.  The ad, which the youth wing of the Democratic Alliance party created and posted on its Facebook page, has drawn the ire of both white and black South Africans, including an especially bigoted reaction from one commenter who posted a picture of a placid, Aryan-looking family on the DA Youth's Facebook page with the charming caption, "Now that's how it should be!"  (If that leaves a bad taste in your mouth, try repeating it with the amusing, sing-songy Boer accent, which will help underscore how absurd such an outburst really is.) More »
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Sometimes our planet's constant wars can seem as senseless and brutish as a bunch of Neanderthals throwing rocks at each other, and according to one team of scientists, that's what they are: an outgrowth of men's instinct to defend their mates and territories against outsiders. Are you skeptical? Good. More »
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A depressing new study has found that when they solve problems in groups, women tend to do worse than their IQ would suggest. The researchers aren't sure why this is, but we have some theories. More »
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Yesterday, CBS's "This Morning" finally found two suitably inconsequential people to debate the merits of a two-week-old article in the New York Times by Dominique Browning, who claimed, based on the small sample of unaffiliated yet functional ladies living in her Amazonian apartment complex, that women are more suited to independence than their emotionally parasitic male counterparts. More »
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The selective abortion of female fetuses is a problem around the world, and an ongoing symptom of sexism. Now a Canadian doctor has devised a foolproof method of ending the practice: just don't tell women the fetus's gender until it's too late! More »
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In my opinion, there is no way to administer a math test that will identify inborn ability. So people who think the greater presence of men in high-end math and science positions is a result of the distribution of inborn abilities generally rely on the observation of (a) big gender gaps, (b) long-standing gender gaps, or (c) widespread gender gaps, to make their case. More »
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This letter is a response to Taylor, the 14-year-old girl who called for a boycott of Girl Scout cookies because the Scouts allow transgender members. You can watch her video here. More »
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When your boss is a jerk to your coworkers, it stands to reason that you'll feel shitty too. But a new study shows that you might feel worse if the victim is of the same gender as you — and women react to their coworkers' mistreatment slightly differently than men do. More »
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I was on the brink of orgasm when Rex decided we needed to talk. As we writhed on a blanket on my living-room floor, my black velvet t-shirt sliding up my torso and my skirt several yards away where Rex had tossed it like a grenade, he lifted his head from between my legs and said, "I have something I have to tell you." More »
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A new study claims to prove that men and women have very different personalities. However, the research may not be watertight. More »
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This past Christmas night, my wife, daughter, and I went visited some friends for dinner. When my daughter walked through the door resplendent in a new outfit from Santa, our host, Tom, exclaimed "You look beautiful, Heloise!" His partner, Kate, shushed him. "You're not supposed to tell little girls that they're pretty," she said, offering Eira and me an apologetic smile. "It gives them a complex." More »
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I kind of knew I would love this video when I clicked on it and I was right. I just didn't know how much I would love it. More »
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A tipster recently wrote to tell us that Forever 21 didn't divide its wares into "men's" and "women's" categories — rather, its clothes were for "men" or "girls." We decided to investigate — and to take a look at what its competitors call their male and female customers. Below, a breakdown. More »
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It's not just Ryan Gosling. Guys really are more open about their romantic feelings than ever before. Young men think about sex less — and about love more — than either traditional psychology or pop culture acknowledge. Is it the sudden emergence of a new "mushy male" ethos? Or is it simply the long overdue recognition of something that's been there all along? More »
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A UK toy store has eliminated its girls' and boys' toys sections, instead grouping toys by category. A blogger has claimed this decision as a victory, but the store says it's just responding to customer confusion. More »
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Last week, the UK lingerie chain Ann Summers launched a new campaign using what the company claims are "real women" from across England as its models. Theirs is the latest example of authenticity advertising, a trend that dates back to 2004, when Dove launched its iconic "Real Beauty" campaign. In the 21st century, "realness" is now a marketing mainstay. But it's also become a divisive concept, as those who fall short of what's "real" are inevitably derided as "fake." More »
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Naturally, people find it very troubling when someone holds a job traditionally associated with the opposite gender, but new research suggests that it's inaccurate and unwise to mock the male nurse responsible for jamming a needle into your arm. It's hard to belive that our ignorant stereotypes could be wrong, but it turns out that not all guys who go into nursing are girly men. More »
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A new study suggests that men who are scantily clad are viewed as more sensitive, but less intelligent than men who are fully dressed. Men: they're judged like us! More »
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Famously pixie-haired Michelle Williams tells Elle UK this month that she "cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it." But is Heath Ledger truly the only straight man who ever preferred short hair on women? Seriously? More »
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A blogger has created a fun new tool that switches the gender of all gendered words on webpages, yielding some amusing and thought-provoking results. More »
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A tax court has ruled that expenses incurred in securing sex reassignment surgery are tax deductible, as the procedure is not one of aesthetic preference, but rather medical necessity. This technically means that everyone who is paying taxes is subsidizing sex reassignment, a fact that would give Michele Bachmann a coronary. This is only going to lead to everyone getting recreational sex changes. Anarchy in the pants! More »
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Business columnist and recreational social theoretician Gene Marks recently posted an article article on Forbes' website titled, "Why Most Women Will Never Become CEO," which is sort of like writing an article titled, "Why Most People Named Gene Will Never Become CEO." What Marks means, and what he writes about in the body of his article, is that most CEOs won't be women, which is true even in the wake of Ginni Rometty and Meg Whitman's recent promotions — according to USA Today, of the 3,409 publicly traded companies analyzed in a recent survey, only 98 of them were lead by female chief executive officers. For anybody who's nodding and muttering, "Well 98 seems pretty m'ok," that's just 3.2 %. More »
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A new study provides scientific evidence for what many may have long suspected: an individual person's sexist beliefs can actually influence society as a whole. Well, crap. More »
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It's the kind of finding to warm the hearts of us liberal, Larry-Summers-hating,  gender-egalitarians.  Summers — you saw him in The Social Network as the Harvard president who had no patience for the Winklevoss twins (he didn't have much patience for Cornel West either and probably many other things) — suggested that the dearth of women in top science and engineering positions was caused not so much by social forces as by innate sex differences in math ability (more here and many other places). More »
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Why can't they be happy for me? That's the question I got from a model named Kaycee*, who has been successful for several years, first as a "straight-size" and now as a plus-size model. She recently got a huge break, landing a major cover shot. But not everyone is equally excited about Kaycee's success. As she told me when we spoke, she's heard from other models that it was "just dumb luck" that she got the job; two even made the unlikely claim (on Facebook, no less) that they'd turned down the gig before Kaycee landed it. More »
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A new study shows that female lawyers may be unpopular with legal secretaries. Is this because lady lawyers are just too busy to be nice, or because people have higher expectations of female bosses? More »
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It's hard to imagine anyone in the United States naming a child "unwanted" and getting away with it. (Of course we name our kids things like Moroccan and Pilot Inspektor and nobody bats an eye, but that's another story.) In India, however, the cruel practice of naming a daughter the Hindi equivalent of "unwanted" is, sadly, not uncommon. More »
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Well, science has finally, unequivocally, once and for all solved the big "Who's funnier?" battle of the sexes question. And the winner is... More »
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And now, from the man who brought you "How to Operate Your Home on a Budget," "Sex Problems of Young People," and "Tests for Husbands and Wives," comes "Sex Differences Between Men and Women & Nagging Wives"!!! More »
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You know how men want sex all the time whereas women just want diamonds and babies? It turns out that if you look closely at the science behind these claims, a lot of gender differences disappear. A new review of existing research by psychologists at the University of Michigan deconstructs six common Mars/Venus claims. More »
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And the sexist T-shirt hits keep on coming — but in a way I never expected. More »
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For the record, we are not saying that we agree with this chart. Straight dudes who are smart, nice, and handsome — all at the same time — do exist (sometimes they're just a little hard to find!). I will say, though, that this diagram just might correlate with the high number of gay male friends I have. Think about it. More »
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It's not your imagination. Young women really do have to work harder than guys in order to receive equal treatment, a long-held suspicion confirmed by two recent studies. More »
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Why is it that practically every female superhero has her knockers hanging out of her super hero suit? It's not like there's ever been a male super hero with his frank-n-beans hanging out (with the exception of Howard Stern's Fartman, of course). This is exactly why we were so interested in this comic by Aaron Diaz, which points out how it's not only kind of insulting to always have a female superhero's breasts front and center, it's simply impractical from a superhero standpoint. More »
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