Mad Women

O my, why are we obsessed with Mad Men?! 
Thursday’s Child and I were recently having a lively discussion about Betty Draper and why she’s such an evil bitch on the show. We ask, why do the writers portray her as an entitled spoiled wife who resents her children, as opposed to a sympathetic woman whose [...]

Random Sex Fact Friday

From Louann Brizendine, M.D.’s best-seller The Female Brain:

“Using the body odor of men and the noses of women, Jan Havlicek of Charles University in Prague has hatched a controversial theory about pheromones and the female brain. He found that ovulating women who already have partners preferred the smell of other more dominant men but that single [...]

Women & Diminishing Returns

Last year, an enterprising, twenty-something female advertised herself on Craigslist as a potential wife for a wealthy (500k+/year) New Yorker. The ad was quickly re-posted on Dealbreaker, and attacked by self-righteous financiers. While her ad (re-posted below) was a total joke, the men’s responses were far more outrageous.
A male friend recently confessed to me that, [...]

A Good Man Is Hard to Buy

I love chicklit, Lifetime, pink and all things girly– secret: i’ve stumbled upon many an alpha male in their dorm rooms watching a Lifetime drama–, so it was no surprise to me that I found the inspiration for this post while I was browsing through the Oxygen network’s website and stumbled upon the promo for [...]

Our Sexism, Our Chick Lit Role Models

In today’s New York Times, op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof confessed to being racist.
Well, not exactly. What he did confess to was taking a psychological test which revealed that he was more wary of black men than of white men (click here for full article). This kind of “implicit attitude test” is common in the field [...]