The Twisty Institute for the Study of Heterofemininity (TISH) invites women with boyfriends, husbands, and/or fathers to answer the following questions as honestly as possible. The raw data will be tabulated, collated, analyzed, duplicated, dipilated, notated, submitted, cited, misinterpreted, misqu...

Blamer Belenen sent in a video clip the other day with the note “check out this animated tribute to sexism.” It was a cartoon called “Only in a Woman’s World.” Four young female characters obsess about femininity, particularly body image and food, in that glib, self-dep...

Top o the marnin, blamers. You know how I rely on you to email me with cultural bacteria I can grow in the petrie dish of blame down in the lab, but relax. You can all stop sending me the link to the $3.8 million virginity auction. I’m hip to it. And I cannot possibly improve on Amanda’s...

I am very sorry to have read a review of a book called How to Meet a Man After Forty, but not sorry enough to refrain from foisting my review of this review on yall. I am sorry that this book even exists. I am sorry that the author of the review wedges chunks of her own post-40 man-hunting autobiogr...

(Tim) Entertainers are the only ones permitted to be honest, today. But sometimes, scientists are cut some slack and are allowed to speak their minds, too. In that vein, did you notice yesterday's news that women are hard wired not......

(Tim, w/thanks to Kamilla) Since moving to Bloomington, I've often read aloud to one of my younger brothers or sisters in Christ, seeking to innoculate them against this or that part of our cultural decadence. Scripture always and foremost. But......

About once a week I have to reorganize my office/art room. All my computer equipment lives there, plus my fabulous art drawers and shelving, a queen-size futon, and a fold-up five-foot craft table from Joann's. At this moment I have five SoulCollage cards in various stages of prep, plus the cove...

In his most recent column Paul Krugman was drumming to the beat of the current top pop tune of America, by denouncing conservatives as irrelevant whiners and relegating the libertarian ideology of small government to the ash heap of history. I was reminded of lesbian and feminist activist Donna Mink...

I don't like television adverts about feminine hygiene products because they're insipid piles of shite created by advertising blokes without a clue. In Australia, we've had a TV ad for Kotex tampons that features a woman and a beaver. No crap.The other irritating thing is the voice over referring to...

Friday Hoyden: Candice Bergen Candice Bergen got her start in modelling and radio as a child. After her “stormy” teens, she played her film debut as a lesbian Vassar graduate in 1965’s The Group, going on to a long film career. But she didn’t really get her start until she fo...