Objectify This

Yep. Check Amherstdam for the details from the Daily Mail while I groan at my thesis.

Thanks for waiting out that unfortunate change of template. It turns out that the combination of the Tina Fey and Sarah Silverman videos had overloaded things. However, thanks to Professor P’s amazing skillz, (check her out here) we’re back up and running. This song (after the jump) is a partial expression of my gratitude.

In this recent article from the New York Times about Susan Pinker’s new book, The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap, Emily Bazelon writes, “In her zeal, Pinker veers to the onesided. She doesn’t acknowledge that some of the research cited in her footnotes is either highly questionable as social science (Louise [...]

Don’t get me wrong. I love electronic culture. It gives me access to everyone else who has access to it, which is a lot of people. But it’s not everyone. And because of the necessarily exclusive nature of it, what gets lost is the full community experience. This is, for many, a digital age, and [...]

This poll discussed over at Slate in the article “Man Up!” found that “Despite the recent frenzy of media attention over the issue of race in America, a new poll by CBS (PDF) suggests that gender may cause more problems for contemporary presidential contenders. Thirty-nine percent of those polled think that a woman candidate would [...]