Parents Hope Their Sons Are Geniuses and Their Daughters Aren't Fat

Another reason to feel bad for today's little girls: one day, the straight ones will grow up to face a dating selection consisting of doted upon nightmare boys raised by parents who used the power of the internet to validate their sneaking suspicion that their lil' All Star might be a genius. Meanwhile, the girls'…
Sons Are Leaving Fetal Cells All Up in Their Moms’ Brains, Which May Be Really Good or Really Bad
Children are soooo selfish, aren't they just? They're always leaving shit behind for parents to clean up, shit like gross underwear, dead childhood pets, erotica so well-hidden that they forgot all about it when they moved out, and, according to the latest and greatest scientific research, fetal cells that they…
Mitt Romney Celebrates Father’s Day By Pulling One of His Famously Terrible Pranks
In yet another desperate attempt to humanize their father, the Romney sons released a Father's Day video in which they detail all of the fun times they had with their dad. Guess what? The good times centered entirely around pranking each other. Oh, and for some mysterious reason also involved him nicknaming one of…
Mr. Clean Ad Tries to Enlist a Legion of ‘Man Maids’ for Mother’s Day
The first question we might be asking about this terribly misguided ad from Mr. Clean is what sort of weird, Oedipal relationship does a son have with his mother where he dresses like the Brawny towel paper dude's less brawny younger brother in order to clean mom's house? Thankfully, Mr. Clean doesn't want sons to…
Intimate Mother-Son Bonds Aren’t Nearly as Creepy as Norman Bates Would Have You Believe
Ever since Oedipus unwittingly carried on with his mom and Freud built an extensive scientific theory around their mythical indiscretions, a cultural stigma has been associated with close mother-son relationships, especially those relationships that continue on well into a disaffected, serial-killing adulthood.…
Sensitive Real Guys You Love
We asked, you answered! Herewith, your tales of our the sensitive, real-life guys who rock your worlds and, if it ever starts to falter, restore your faith in the opposite sex.
Get Us A First Son, Stat!
Robert Urbatsch of the University of Iowa recently published a study that families with daughters or without children are more likely to support and value military intervention abroad than those with boys. Uh-oh. [Slate]
