Zitat des Tages von Hanna Rosin:
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.
Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.
Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
Pop culture is like our subconscious.
Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.
The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.
To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.
Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.
For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
Women don't give up things. They don't give up responsibilities. They add new things. They exhaust themselves and still don't give anything up. And. And. And. And. And they do all these other things at the same time, which can be exhausting.
One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
