Being a Teacher in China Sounds a Little Like Being in the Mafia

It may seem sometimes like America treats its teachers like emulsified shit, which is why it may also seem impossible to imagine a world in which teachers are so well-respected, they're bribed like mafia dons with cash and designer handbags, a world in which parents defer to teachers, a world in which teachers are…
Money Can't Buy You Happiness, But a Little Respect Can
While it's true that having money can make life easier—I mean what's easier than spending all day rolling around in a pile of $100 bills?—money doesn't necessarily make you feel happy. Hence the old cliché. But if money is out, then what does make us happy? Well, a lot of things, really: puppies, butterscotch candies,…
The Respectability of Video Vixens vs. Body Builders
Two women, dressed in bikinis, stand on a stage. One woman's muscles bulge from every part of her body. The other is voluptuous with a perfect hourglass figure and a fat gluteus maximus. The first woman is a bodybuilder, flexing, flaunting, and celebrating her body for an audience. The second woman is a video vixen,…
Writer's Unwillingness To Talk To Women Is Our Responsibility
Next up in the Times of London's cavalcade of man-children complaining about how women just don't get them is "Matt," who says women don't understand how men want us around, but don't want to interact with us except for sex.
