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For some reason I just read a story called
Self-Cutting Linked To Risky Teen Sex. Okay, so I hate myself for actually reading such a story, since I was really only reading it for the purpose of reveling in how much I hate myself, which is fairly easy since I can't even get it up to make a joke along the lines of "Oh! Cutters and their bareback sex! What'll they take up next, coke and bulimia?" (You see the problem.) But no, I even went and bothered figuring out who we can thank for this breakthrough. Some research center
underwritten by the toy industry, apparently. And here I am, trying to carve a post out of this crap when I would rather find a knife. Wouldn't it be cool if vibrators had fold out knives for cutters? Cool, but also scary, obviously? And the worst part is I'm reading about this cool new class of empowered
"Nerdettes" that supposedly exists, and embraces its differences and enrolls in engineering classes, obligatory Tina Fey reference even though Tina Fey has fuckall to do with engineering but okay.
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What is it with women who preface statements with "I'm
definitely not a feminist"? Now, I personally don't go around calling people I
am a feminist, in part because of all those old
Candace Bushnell columns in which flimsy freeloading unemployed socialites constantly excuse their unrelenting pursuit of sugardaddiness by saying "I'm a
feminist," but that same anecdote goes to show you just how benign the word really is, right? I mean, equal status accorded to men and women — that's a no-brainer, right? Okay, well, now comes
Helen Fisher, a renowned anthropologist, Match.com consultant and World Economic Forum speaker on the subject of the differences between women. She starts her speech, "I'm definitely
not a feminist..."
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A new study says women and men are different about something! (Think it's about time I programmed a series of command keys so I could type those eleven words with minimal effort? Yeah, only a dude would be that lazy. Or enterprising. Whatev.) Anyway, this study says that women work harder than men. Because they're perfectionists who set higher standards for themselves.
She recently asked both a male and a female colleague for help on a project. The female colleague said that to do a good job, she would need to do three days of research first. The male colleague said he could finish the work in an afternoon.
That's one of the conductors of the study, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia. And I think this gets to the crux of the issue, right? The colleague is being asked to help with a
sociology project. She's not being asked to research, say, the evidence of nuclear proliferation in Iran. She's not mapping the human genome. She's helping a professor who supports her obvious assertion to a reporter by citing
anecdotes. What the fuck does she need three days for? To be a better anecdote?
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OH MY SHIT
MORE ON THE "MEN ARE MORE FUNNIER THAN WOMEN" BEAT SAY IT AIN'T SO. Here's an idea:
testosterone is what makes men funnier. That's what this unicycling psychologist who got his study published in the
British Medical Journal is saying. Compiling that Mitchell report musta been a
hoot then, yes??? Anyway, the finding is based on the results of a few days going out and riding a unicycle and seeing who cracked the best jokes about it. Post-pubescent males made the funniest jokes and were the most aggressive about cracking them and aggression is linked to hormones and this whole thing is totally suspicious because you know what lowers your testosterone levels?
Alcohol. And you know when aggressively funny dudes are actually funny? When everyone is
drinking it. But there are some more problems.
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