gender

Study: Men Do Not Think About Sex All of the Time, Just Most of the Time

Maureen O'Connor · 11/28/11 02:35PM

Breakthrough study in the field of sex-on-the-mind-ology: Men do not think about sex once every seven seconds, researchers at Ohio State University report. They think about sex 19 times a day, which boils down to once every 50 minutes. (Assuming 16 hours of wakefulness and that those horrible recurring nightmares about Great Aunt Ida don't count.) By contrast, women think about sex an average of 10 times a day.

Fox News Boldly Declares Sexy Women the Funniest Women

Richard Lawson · 10/13/11 12:14PM

It's rare that you come across an article and, upon reading it, wonder to yourself "Is this the most horrifying thing ever written?" But occasionally there are things like this, an article on Fox News' website bearing the title "New Crop of Comediennes Combine Funny Bones With Banging Bodies." Terrific!

Filipino Women Withhold Sex to End Village Fighting

Max Read · 09/17/11 10:01AM

Are you a Filipino woman displaced by separatist fighting, and unable to sell your goods at market thanks to a closed-down road? Why not band together with your fellow woman at the sewing cooperative and withhold sex from your husbands until they stop fighting and re-open the road? It worked for the women of Dado, according to the UN's refugee agency. We'd call it a novel solution, but it's at least a couple millennia old. [UNHCR via Reddit]

Women Actually Hate the Color Pink

Hamilton Nolan · 07/27/11 09:10AM

Do you find the color pink to be threatening? If so, you're probably a woman. (Not a man.) And who's hurt by your irrational hatred of pink? Your very own healthy breasts. Get it together, ladies.

Swedish Preschool Bans Gender

Richard Lawson · 06/28/11 02:18PM

A public preschool in a liberal part of Stockholm has created an environment where gendered pronouns are not used, the children are referred to as "friends" instead of "boys and girls," and toys are deliberately gender neutral. Sounds crazy!

Men Don't Want to Talk to No Lady Therapists

Lauri Apple · 05/22/11 02:58PM

If your efforts to convince your dad/boyfriend/brother/manservant to "see someone" about his "issues" have failed, it might be because the man in question has issues with women. Maybe he should see someone about that! Oh, if only he could.

Women Be Moviegoin'

Richard Lawson · 05/16/11 10:54AM

Holy ladies! While their movie wasn't number one, because they're still not men, of course, women surged into a big second-position at the box office this weekend. What's next? Women voters? Women motorists? The sky might be the limit.

Vagina-Having Student Somehow Completes Engineering Degree

Jeff Neumann · 05/14/11 03:10PM

Self-described "math nerd" Hannah Surber, who is female, has earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering. What? Aeronautical engineering is a "very challenging discipline, particularly for a female student," as a professor at her school astutely points out.

Teenage Boy Told to Leave Class for Wearing High Heels

Richard Lawson · 04/26/11 01:19PM

Here's another story of high school gender confusion, this one coming from America's great pulsating phallus, Florida. It seems a Tampa-area teen wore high heels to school, causing an uproar. The uproar? This teen was a boy. In high heels! What is this, Crazy Town?

What's Your Number: A Woman, Doing Comedy?

Richard Lawson · 04/26/11 12:25PM

Here's a trailer for What's Your Number?, a comedy movie starring a woman who has had lots of sex. Pretty scandalous! Will it work? Can anything like this ever work?

Conservative Idiots Freak Out About Boy Wearing Nail Polish in J. Crew Ad

Richard Lawson · 04/12/11 12:42PM

Last week an ad was emailed to J. Crew customers featuring a photo of the company's president and creative director Jenna Lyons and her son in which she was painting his toenails pink. A caption below the picture read: "Lucky for me I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink. Toenail painting is way more fun in neon." Oh, fun. Good for her. Good for him. Right? Wrong. This is an outrage!

How Advertisers Market to Boys and Girls

Max Read · 04/10/11 03:48PM

The Achilles Effect, a blog about gender stereotypes and masculinity, took stock of the frequency with which certain words are used in commercials for "gendered" toys like Hot Wheels and Bratz by making Wordle word clouds. See if you can guess which cloud goes with which gender! (Hint: Boys hate friendship, fun and glitter.) [Achilles Effect via Boing Boing]

Science: Some Young Women Feel Sad After Sex

Max Read · 03/31/11 02:38AM

A study of young Australian women found that one-third had felt sad after sex at least once, and 10 percent "frequently or almost always" had after-sex sads. Obviously, further research will be needed to make sure that it's not just because these poor women were having sex with Australians; study author Robert Schweitzer of the Queensland Institute of Technology suggests that one reason for "postcoital dysphoria" may be "biological predisposition." Either way, let's hope these women can find a cure for their affliction and return to feeling the only appropriate postcoital emotion: Shame. [LiveScience; image via AP]

Rutgers Is the Latest School to Offer Coed Sex-Fest Dorms

Richard Lawson · 03/01/11 10:14AM

Under pressure from campus LGBT groups, the New Brunswick campus of New Jersey's largest university has decided to make three of their dorms gender-neutral housing. Meaning, yes, boys and girls can live together in dry hump heaven.