Today's Feminists Can't Write for S***

An interesting piece, from Charlotte Allen, at the Los Angeles Times:

.@RSMcCain I don't understand today's feminists -- because they can't write http://t.co/X8tQij1JQh via @MeanCharlotte #RadFem

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 27, 2014

Heteronormativity and Gender Roles in Children's Movies

Another opus, from Robert Stacy McCain:

Sex Trouble: Feminists Worry That Disney Movies Are Making Girls Heterosexual http://t.co/6z231JRdqQ #tcot pic.twitter.com/bBWSW1eApy

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 27, 2014

The 'Little Pink Pill' for Female Sexual Dysfunction

This is interesting, at ABC News, "'Little Pink Pill' for Women Sparks Big Sexism Controversy."

Denmark Urges Citizens to 'Do It' to Boost Country's Population

At Blazing Cat Fur, "Denmark's call to arms..."

The Truth About Spring Break

At the Independent UK, "The rite stuff: good times, self-discovery and lots of booze":

This is the Nirvana moment: the precise picture they envisioned when they boarded their planes back in still-frigid Boston, Chicago or New York.

As Dutch DJ Afrojack raises a fist and the first beats pulse through their bones they too let fly, barefoot on the sand, pressed together in a miasma of sun-pinked flesh and swim-suits. Above, against a postcard Caribbean sky, black MTV cameras swoop and curve, a passing parasail adds a dash of yellow.

Call it their right, or their rite of passage, the special – and occasionally perilous – week called Spring Break when tens of thousands of young Americans flee university campuses to shed the usual rules, parental expectations and inhibitions and go a bit bonkers in the sun. It is a time for a different kind of learning, pushing the limits of their livers, testing the looser sides of their young libidos and navigating the unfamiliar far from home.

Not a national holiday as such and certainly not a religious one, the annual student migration south is in fact a rolling affair that runs from late February to early April. Different colleges and universities pick different weeks in the late-winter calendar when teaching stops and their wards are released. Some may just linger, others will seek virtue, perhaps building houses for the poor. But this is what they are meant to do: get drunk, laid and sunburned...

Well, as they say on Twitter: #YOLO!

It's pretty dangerous, though, apparently (yeah, we all drank too much when we were young, and all that). So, keep reading at the link.

Put the Sex Back in Sex Ed

From Camille Paglia, at Time:

When public schools refuse to acknowledge gender differences, we betray boys and girls alike.

Fertility is the missing chapter in sex education. Sobering facts about women’s declining fertility after their 20s are being withheld from ambitious young women, who are propelled along a career track devised for men.

The refusal by public schools’ sex-education programs to acknowledge gender differences is betraying both boys and girls. The genders should be separated for sex counseling. It is absurd to avoid the harsh reality that boys have less to lose from casual serial sex than do girls, who risk pregnancy and whose future fertility can be compromised by disease. Boys need lessons in basic ethics and moral reasoning about sex (for example, not taking advantage of intoxicated dates), while girls must learn to distinguish sexual compliance from popularity.

Above all, girls need life-planning advice. Too often, sex education defines pregnancy as a pathology, for which the cure is abortion. Adolescent girls must think deeply about their ultimate aims and desires. If they want both children and a career, they should decide whether to have children early or late. There are pros, cons and trade-offs for each choice.

Unfortunately, sex education in the U.S. is a crazy quilt of haphazard programs. A national conversation is urgently needed for curricular standardization and public transparency. The present system is too vulnerable to political pressures from both the left and the right–and students are trapped in the middle....

Sex education has triggered recurrent controversy, partly because it is seen by religious conservatives as an instrument of secular cultural imperialism, undermining moral values. It’s time for liberals to admit that there is some truth to this and that public schools should not promulgate any ideology. The liberal response to conservatives’ demand for abstinence-only sex education has been to condemn the imposition of “fear and shame” on young people. But perhaps a bit more self-preserving fear and shame might be helpful in today’s hedonistic, media-saturated environment...

More.

The best sex educators are parents. I took my youngest son to his school's "guy's night out" when he was in fifth grade last year. They had one of the parents, who I think works with law enforcement, present a brief lecture on male puberty, with just a little about male reproductive organs. My kid had the part about erections on the brain for days. My wife and I were thinking our son could have easily held off on that lecture or another year or two. We of course talk about that stuff at home, but every child is different and consideration of your child's emotional and developmental maturity is important when considering having these discussions. My older son seemed to handle the "guy's night out" quite differently, and the school's presentation that year was much less explicit on male anatomy, and so forth. (And my wife and I don't have girls, so that's a whole 'nother bundle of issues to deal with.)

How to Get Some on Valentine's Day

Yeah, that'd be nice, lol.

From Esquire.

A word from Mary-Louise Parker: How to Get Some on Valentine's Day http://t.co/GfMURoMs5J pic.twitter.com/6Luaj6rZuM

— Esquire Magazine (@Esquiremag) February 11, 2014

'The study theorizes that while women may love seeing their guy vacuuming or making dinner, something may shift in their subconscious. When they see men doing “feminine” chores, the primitive part of their brains might be telling them that something isn’t quite right, and they’re less turned on...'

Women like it when men do "manly" chores around the house --- and indeed, guys are less likely to get laid if they do "lady"chores like washing the dishes.

Via Instapundit, "WOMEN ARE SEXIST: Study: Only “Manly” Chores Get You Laid."

#Feminism and the Dilemma of Pubic Hair Humiliation

Robert Stacy McCain blogged about this recently, "The Vagina as Commodity: What Does the Pubic Depilation Phenomenon Mean?"

But now here's this, from Dina Rickman, at Telegraph UK, "Like it or not, we need to break the pubic hair taboo" (via Instapundit):

The personal is political. And there are few things more personal than your pubic hair. Whether you shave, trim, wax (ouch), epilate (while breathing deeply and after two glasses of wine) or go au naturel, it's a decision. And for young women like me in our twenties, it is one which provokes gut-wrenching anxiety, writes Dina Rickman.

It’s no wonder - we’re living in an era when leaving your pubic hair untamed is so unusual that ‘hairy’ has become a form of niche pornography. One male friend of mine recently boasted that he had never seen a woman with a full bush. Another, 24-year-old Adam, finds pubes so alien that he was unable to perform sexually the last time he was confronted with a hairy woman. “We just ended up cuddling,” he explains.

For him, part of the problem is porn. Adam believes it has “heightened expectations” of how a woman should look. “One of my friends once said 'I 100 per cent need to sleep with a girl before I go out with her. What if she's got a hairy bush?’ It's incredibly off putting. It doesn't take much effort to tame it. I manage to, so I don't think it's a lot to ask."

Sophie Bennett, campaigns officer at the women’s rights group, Object, also believes pornography has changed the landscape - and not for the better. “Because young men often learn about sex and women’s bodies in this way, many feel uncomfortable with women’s bodies as they naturally are”, she says. The result? Low self-esteem, anxiety, and confusion.

Sporting a full bush is considered so subversive that few raised an eyebrow last year when Cameron Diaz told the BBC's Graham Norton Show how she and two accomplices had pinned an anonymous friend to the ground and removed her pubic hair.

But there are the refuseniks, like Rachel, 26. It took her 12 years, two vajazzles and more waxes than it’s polite to mention before she decided she’d had enough. For her, it was about avoiding the hassle of hair removal as well as feminism. “Now, my pubes stick out of the sides of my swimming costume in the leisure centre, but I'd rather look like that than anything else.” As for how men react? “I think most guys are so delighted that they're about to get laid they wouldn't notice if you had a full-on Zach Galifianakis-style beard down there. But there are some men who are probably a little bit more picky and prefer the bald look.”...

Oh brother.

More at the link.

But then again, don't miss Robert's commentary. It's hard out there for a refusenik.

Lee Woodruff: Secrets to a Successful Marriage

An interesting interview from today's "CBS News This Morning."

Woodruff discusses her article at Ladies Home Journal, "Let's Talk About Sex (And Why I'd Rather Just Go To Sleep)."



She is married to ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff, who was nearly killed by an IED in Iraq in 2006.

Together they wrote a memoir, discussed at NPR (with an excerpt), "Bob Woodruff and Wife Pen Recovery Memoir."

More, "Author Lee Woodruff on the Secret to a Successful Marriage and Being 'Perfectly Imperfect'."

Girl Gives Blowjobs at Eminem Concert

And photos were posted online, natch.

Instapundit has the headline, "21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Teenage Girl Gives Blowjobs at Eminem Concert, Pictures Posted Online, Epic Slut-Shaming Ensues."

The big roundup is at the Daily Dot, "#Slanegirl: How the Internet turned a girl's Eminem concert into a nightmare."

And the Mirror UK pretty much nails it:

#Slanegirl was stupid, the young man she was pleasuring was an oaf who won’t be getting another blow-job from anyone for a while, and the person who took and shared those pictures online in the first place is a jizzstain of the highest order."

And commentary from Sometimes, it's just a cigar, "#Slanegirl and the shaming of female sexual desire."

Added: More at New York Daily News, "‘Slane Girl' - concert-goer who was photographed performing sex acts - hospitalized after vicious cyberbullying."

Yale Sex Week

This is not only interesting but the author, Kate Maltby, is hilarious.

At Telegraph UK, "What I learned at Yale Sex Week: porn never goes away when it's banned, Dave."

Sidney Disses Huma

At the New York Post, "Weiner's sext partner says wife Huma Abedin is in it for power and fame."

Anthony Weiner’s cyber mistress says he fakes it — with his wife.

“It almost feels to me like it’s more of an arrangement, or a business relationship, than a marriage,” Sydney Leathers said of the perv pol and his humiliated spouse, Huma Abedin.

Leathers offered a half-hearted apology to Abedin “for the pain she probably feels” — though she told “Inside Edition” she believes the Hillary Clinton aide loves being in the political limelight.

“I do think that is probably part of it,” Leathers said, when asked if she thought Abedin stays in her marriage “for the power, for the fame, for the stature.”

Silda Spitzer Plans to Seek Divorce After the Election

Well, I mentioned she was keeping a low profile. Really low, it turns out.

At the New York Post, "EXCLUSIVE: Fed-up Silda Spitzer plans to divorce Eliot after election":

Silda Spitzer is privately telling friends she plans to divorce her hooker-loving husband, Eliot Spitzer, Page Six can exclusively reveal.

Multiple sources tell us long-suffering Silda — who, he last night admitted, will not be joining him on the campaign trail — “has had enough” and plans to start divorce proceedings after his run for New York City comptroller is over.

One source tells us, “Silda is telling her female friends that she is done with him. She will file for divorce after the [Nov. 5] election.”

A second source told The Post’s Sally Goldenberg, “Silda is saying she is going to wait until this is all over. She has been telling friends, ‘This is too hard. This is too rough.’ ”

Page Six exclusively revealed in May that the Spitzers were living apart, with Eliot staying at 800 Fifth Ave. — less than 20 blocks from the home he shared with Silda at 985 Fifth.

Still more at that top link.

#Weiner Had at Least 13 Sexting Partners — 3 After He Left Congress

Hard numbers.

At the New York Post, "Weiner’s dirty baker’s dozen: He had at least 13 cybersex gals — 3 were after he quit Congress."

Anthony #Weiner 'New Yorker' Cover

USA Today wonders if the cover "goes too far?"

Hardly. Nothing's too far for this pervert.

See, "Cover Story: John Cuneo's 'Carlos Danger'." (At Memeorandum.)

Sydney Leathers on 'Inside Edition'

The original report at Inside Edition, "EXCLUSIVE: Sydney Leathers Details Being At Center Of Anthony Weiner Sexting Scandal."

And at National Review, "Weiner’s Sexting Partner: He Told Me He Loved Me."

#Weiner Sexting Scandal Shifts Focus to 'Good Wife' Huma Abedin

Well, at least for now the focus is shifting to the "good wife" Huma, as this New York Times piece illustrates, "Many New York Women Are Baffled at Loyalty Shown by Weiner's Wife."

It's not baffling. The Weiners are all about power, and as many have said on Twitter, Huma's had the country's premiere sex-scandal mentor in Hillary Clinton. It was surreal watching the press conference, especially with Huma's easy cheesy smile and the fawning looks at her vulgar, sexting-addicted husband. Contrast that to Silda Spitzer, who looked absolutely mortified during their press conference a few years back. And Silda's remained out of the public eye as her husband seeks a return to political office. A huge difference.

The Weiners are not natural people. And I expect that the pressure's going to keep building until Anthony's driven from the race. But we'll see. We'll see.

In any case, still more attention to Huma at Memeorandum. She's not the "good wife" in the last analysis.

Increasingly, It's Women Who're Driving Today's Hookup Culture

From Andrea Tantaros on Twitter:

Can women have sex like men? NYT says so in an article everyone is talking about. Up next on radio: Dr. Wendy James. http://t.co/i1JqqysMbf

— Andrea Tantaros (@AndreaTantaros) July 18, 2013

And click through at the link. An interesting piece.

'I’m a feminist who enjoys being dominated during sex. Help!...'

Because if you demand respect while while simultaneously being choked during sex you're an empowered feminist, or something.

At Toronto's Globe and Mail, "I consider myself quite the feminist – I really think gender equality is very important, but sex with my new boyfriend has me questioning my feminist ways. We have been having sex for three weeks now and it gets physical. To my surprise, I have found I like to be dominated. He hits me during sex and chokes me, and I actually like it. I find myself asking for it. How can I be a feminist and still enjoy this?"