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I want to know where I can get a chip for my shoulder as big as this guy’s.
I suppose if I were a six-foot, six-inch tall man with a hateful grin plastered on my face, I might suffer fewer daily reminders of how other people see me. Being a good deal shorter, and having genitals [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day, Baby!

What, for me? Oh, you shouldn’t have! (*Unwraps elegantly, nay, professionally wrapped, lit and photographed gift*)
Hey, this isn’t flowers, chocolate, jewelry, a stuffed animal, or anything else even remotely approaching a Valentine’s Day gift. It’s just a list of perfectly ordinary things I wear everyday and a bunch of [...]

Well hello! Long time no see! I’m sure nothing whatsoever has happened in my absence. I have actually been writing here goddamn near every day but fucking Marc has scrubbed the archives in fear of… ellipses and incomplete sentences. I cuss too much, apparently, and somebody had to scrub my dirty, [...]

*Bzzrrppt.*
Man-Robot #5451136832 reporting for duty — ready to think, do, and say everything expected from a typical male. Recently, I installed the newest upgrade to my Men’s Health operating system, maximizing my compatibility with the rock-bottom expectations of blabby, crabby Woman-Robots.
My programmer, Men’s Health editor-in-chief David Zinczenko, is the Bill Gates of man [...]

When I took journalism classes, I was always told to put the key stuff on top and the throw away stuff at the bottom. Technically, that’s just what the author of this article on a “modesty fashion show” did; however, in my opinion the most revealing detail slipped in at the bottom. (emphasis mine)

Pregnancy [...]

Ever have an argument about Roe v Wade with someone who is anti-choice but not particularly religious? Everyone knows the rub in R v W; that it doesn’t grant the unqualified right to an abortion. Instead it claims that the right to an abortion is part of a right to privacy which is [...]

It’s finals week starting tomorrow, so rather than do anything insightful I thought I’d just make fun some chick I found on the internets for a bit. I got her from the same place that Marc got Amanda Sopasto. Lindsey Russell caught my eye with her bold essay, As Arrogant as He May Be, [...]

PZ links Twisty and extends (one of) her point(s) that ritualism is primitive and unnecessarily celebrated in our culture. He adds:
I’ve heard that so often: that people need ritual, that there’s something beautiful and comforting about the predictable and stately. Why? I get along fine without it, and find it a nuisance when I’m subjected [...]