Posts Tagged ‘women’
High ranking United States generals finally agree with me on the military draft – 21 years later
In 1995, I stood in front of a speech class at Manchester Community College and argued that women should be eligible for the military draft. I posited that women’s failure to demand this responsibility undermined their fight for equality. My professor awarded me an A for the speech (I still have his notes and the…
Read MoreBoy vs. Girl: Episode 11 – New Year’s Resolutions, Driving, and I WAS GROPED ON THE POLAR EXPRESS!
Episode 11 of Boy vs. Girl features a discussion of New Year’s Resolutions (and Rachel’s ridiculous resolution), the question over whether men or women are better drivers, and the story about how I was groped by a woman as I was disembarking the polar express, about ten feet from Santa Claus. You can listen here…
Read MoreMichael Lewis wants women to rule Wall Street. I would like to take his thesis about a million steps further.
Michael Lewis has Eight Things I Wish for Wall Street. Blogger Jason Kottke highlighted #2 on his blog: 2. No person under the age of 35 will be allowed to work on Wall Street. I like this one a lot, but I like #3 even better: 3. Women will henceforth make all Wall Street trading…
Read MoreMy annual plea to the girls in my fifth grade class: Maintain your advantage over the boys. Rule the world.
On Friday, Hillary Clinton pledged to work to get all the female Democratic candidates on the ballot elected in November. “I can’t think of a better way to make the House work again than electing every woman on the ballot,” Clinton told the Democratic Women’s Leadership Forum. “There are ten women running for the Senate,…
Read MoreMen are far more likely to make stupid decisions in sports. But are the reasons for this stupidity all bad? I don’t think so.
This will come as no surprise to anyone who plays a coed sport: On the playing field, men are more likely than women to make dumb decisions. The major finding: As the competition (in US Open Tennis) gets tighter, men are more likely to screw up. During set tiebreakers, female players were more likely to…
Read MoreNew rule: Women should not make sweeping generalizations about women.
In listening to the most recent Nerdist Writer’s Panel podcast, the writer and show runner of the television show Trophy Wife, Emily Halpern, was asked if she ever fights with her writing partner during the collaborative process. Her response: We are two women, so we get passive aggressive. One of us may pout, and the…
Read MoreMen want it all, too, damn it.
I was listening to the most recent Slate Double X podcast and nearly losing my mind. The panelists were discussing the recent Atlantic cover story Why Women Still Can’t Have It All with the author, Anne Marie Slaughter. I read the piece a couple days ago and had been formulating my somewhat annoyed reaction to…
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