There's a public school in Alabama where little girls and boys are separated. The girls' classroom walls are yellow, the boys' blue. The girls' room temperature is kept at 75, the boys' at 69. The girls do a "tidy" science experiment with blue and red colored oil and water; the boys watch snakes eat rats. Should boys…

I am not one of those people who tries to pretend there is some upside to being born a female. I just try to remind myself things like "at least I'm not blind!" and "at least I wasn't born in Algeria!" etc. etc. when I get all "victim"-y feeling about it. Because we get less pay and less respect and more hormones and…

From a Newsweek essay by Princeton writing professor Evan Thomas on "assessing how boys and girls influence each other": "After Dartmouth went coed in the '70s, said [a] dean, she had hoped that the women would civilize the men. Instead, the opposite happened: the men made ruffians of the women...The women [in my…

There's a really motherfucking long article in the New Scientist all about swearing that we read so that you don't have to. Some of the shit we discovered in the article was pretty damn interesting. It turns out that the use of curse words can be explained by science and evolution and how our brains work. So what the…

Though the accepted stereotype of a nonstop talker is always that of a nattering old biddy, a new study shows that men actually talk more than women on the whole. But while men are more gabby overall, the level of talkativeness is largely situational: According to an article in the November issue of the Personality…

At first when we saw this study on how men are less wandery and aimless when they are shopping we were like "how nice for academics that they get paid to learn these things!" as usual. But then we read closer and realized the actual point of it was that, not only are men more results-driven about going shopping, they…

Men like domination by women, or so says a study by Mary Murphy, a Stanford University psychologist. Her research monitored the reactions of a group of students as they watched videos depicting a conference. In one video, men outnumbered women, while in the other, the sexes were equally represented. The female…