Gendered Toy Commerical Mashups Are Insane (And Telling, Too)

We've seen how Lego's boy and girl commercials seem intent on keeping the genders separate from childhood, but what about the rest of the toy world? What happens when, for instance, you play G.I. Joe's bone-crunching heavy metal toy commercial music in a video of Barbie trying on her latest swimsuit? Total and utter…
Frat Boys Walking in High Heels for Charity Is Quite a Sight to Behold
It's not often that you associate a pack of frat boys with a campaign to raise awareness about sexual abuse and violence against women, but sometimes life offers up a nice surprise. This group of fraternity brothers at Western Kentucky University got together to walk—or at least try to walk—a mile while wearing pairs…
Guys Aren't Always Better at Math
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,…
Awesome Boys Club Works To Stop Violence Against Women
So much of the discussion of rape and violence against women centers on educating girls on how to protect themselves, so it's nice to know that, at least in a few schools, educators are going out of their way to talk to boys about their role in stopping sexual violence. All this is taking place in an after-school…
Warning: Boy Scouts May Cause Extremely Premature Beard Growth
The Boy Scouts of America's Atlanta Council has launched a new campaign telling boys that that if they get drunk on squishee and accidentally join the Junior Campers, it won't be the end of the world. The Scouts teaches you to "Be One With The Wild," which will apparently make you the first boy in Fourth Grade with a…
Just Freaking Give Boys The HPV Vaccine Already
The facts: Roughly half of adult males in the US are infected with HPV. Some strains, passed along to women through sexual contact, can cause cervical cancer. HPV can also increase the likelihood of penile or anal cancer in men, and can cause genital warts. The FDA has already approved the vaccine for boys. But the…
Young American Men Prefer To Have Male Children
I've argued in the past against framing a preference for boy children as "culturally Asian." New data from Gallup shows that this preference is alive and well among Americans, at least among young men. While women are most likely to have no opinion and about equally likely to prefer a girl or boy, men are…
How The "Good Guys Are Hard To Find" Narrative Hurts Women
It's not news that girls are feeling more pressure than ever to be perfect. As I've written before in my posts on the Martha Complex, this generation of teen girls is more stressed about, well, everything, than any generation of women before them.* The pressure to do well in school, the pressure to please parents and…
Coitus Magazine Offers Up An Afternoon Delight
We don't exactly know what Coitus magazine is (although we can guess) but we do know that on a Friday afternoon, this animated gif is a welcome sight. Goodies below the jump.
Boys Get The Short End Of Sex Ed
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control (via Family Inequality) reveals that boys report less sex education than girls.
The Great Gender Equalizer May Be Upon Us!
Cursive is officially dead, at least according to a survey of incoming freshmen. It's bad news for avid letter writers, but could be good news for boys?
