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Having a daughter makes parents more liberal than having a son.
In Germany, two-thirds of people who switched their political affiliation in the year after having a son moved to the more conservative party. The ratio was flipped for those who had a daughter.
In Britain, the two left of center parties, Labor and the Liberal [...]
I went out to buy rainboots and one of those brilliant devices that holds a piece of paper upright so you can type it’s contents onto your computer without killing your neck (does anyone know what this is called? I felt like an idiot explaining it to 3 different people at staples, but I know [...]
Okay. I understand that the people who gave me Starbucks giftcards for the holidays were just trying to be nice. They were looking out for me. They were trying to indulge me. They were being thoughtful. They were not intentionally trying to undermine me.
Starbucks is one giant corporate business that I’ve been able to successfully [...]
Dan Savage has another brilliant Op-Ed at the Times:
Evangelical Christians seem sincere in their desire to help build healthy, lasting marriages. Well, if that’s their goal, encouraging gay men to enter into straight marriages is a peculiar strategy. Every straight marriage that includes a gay husband is one Web-browser-history check away from an ugly divorce.
Mattel concedes that a new and improved Ken, however dashing and fashionable, and his pending reconciliation with Barbie, however dramatic, is not the solution. But it will give the legions of girls who play with Barbie the kind of new plotline they crave.
It’s been awhile since I played with Barbie, but I don’t remember ever [...]
here i am on the interweb.
Over at Bookslut you can read what I ultimately had to say about Self-Made Man, that mediocre book by Norah Vincent. And here’s my review of The Thin Place, a sparkly magical book by Kathryn Davis.
manohla, i really do love you for your mind.
I’m smiling so hard after reading this Q&A with Manohla Dargis, NY Times film critic and my personal hero. And it’s no secret that I fucking love the stupid Oscars, and the fact that Jon Stewart is hosting them is almost too much for me to handle. Some choice excerpts:
– As to “Mrs. Henderson Presents” [...]
Daniel Mendelsohn gets it right in the New York Review of Books:
The real achievement of Brokeback Mountain is not that it tells a universal love story that happens to have gay characters in it, but that it tells a distinctively gay story that happens to be so well told that any feeling person can be [...]
CNN was on the TV in my coffee place this morning, with the senate panel hearings on the eavesdropping “program.” The guys in there had it on mute, but I swear, it looked like Gonzales was trying (though not very hard) not to grin.
I just don’t understand why people think a couple making a new [...]
The Times has been running announcements for gay weddings since 2002, but I think this is the first time the big feature wedding story has featured a gay couple. A nice milestone, but it must be said, the sight of two women in frothy white wedding dresses is even more ridiculous than the sight of [...]