Two male views of women's sexuality:
(a) It is predictable, unchanging, easily conquerable once you've cracked their code. Favored by: "Pick-up artists" whose livelihood depends on purporting to know the code. See: Roissy in D.C., Roosh V.
(b) It is mysterious, unknowable, a foreign "Other" never to be understood. Favored by: Scientists, journalists whose theses depend upon [...]
* The new Hillary Clinton, New York Senator-to-be Kirsten Gillibrand, already has jealous Congressional wolves circling her freshly appointed carcass in the hopes of gaining the seat that is not yet officially hers, in 2010 [via Newsday].
* The New gay tells President Obama what to do. TNG was also nice enough to profile the Sexist [...]
Frank Rich's column in Saturday's New York Times was an indictment of Barack Obama's mixed message on gay rights in light of the Rick Warren pick (side-note: totally over this). But the headline's funnier out of context:
You’re Likable Enough, Gay People
The title is a nod to Obama's primary season declaration that "You're likable enough, Hillary." [...]
"Nothing at all," according to an interview she gave to New York Times reporters Nicholas Confessore and David Halbfinger, published last weekend. Kennedy's gotten a little bit of heat for this exchange, where she responds to Confessore's request for Kennedy to describe in detail her decision-making process with her husband to seek the Senate seat:
NC: [...]
* The city of South El Monte, California, has imposed a nightly curfew of 11 p.m. for its mayor, Blanca M. Figueroa, the New York Times reports. Figueroa had a habit of burning the midnight oil in her office, often staying late to help citizens with "home foreclosure problems, layoffs and even buying groceries." How [...]
* DCist reviews Tuesday night's Stella show, reflects on the obsessive cult of Stella that filled 6th & I to hang with three comedian strangers they like to consider their "surreal pals." Meanwhile, Michael Showalter is my favorite!!!1
* Via New York Times: What it feels like for a girl. Or boy, depending on where you're [...]
The New York Times last week reported on a new “beautification engine,” a "computer program that uses a mathematical formula to alter the original form into a theoretically more attractive version." The program runs on the idea that a common standard of beauty can be predicted across cultures, based on international surveys and the ratios [...]
Good morning, Washington. Your sex & gender links of the day:
* Jezebel considers telling off Columbus Day.
* How did big tobacco make smoking acceptable for women? It got cozy with women's lib, writes Jennifer 8. Lee for the New York Times:
Recognizing that women were still riding high on the suffrage movement, [American Tobacco Company P.R. [...]
* Slate is all over the sex & gender beat this week! First, Jack Shafer debunks the New York Times Sunday Styles "dudes love cats" trend piece:
How to write a bogus trend story: Start with something you wish were on the rise. State that rise as a fact. Allow that there are no facts, surveys, [...]
