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Wives 'living retro lifestyles of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s'

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Depressed, repressed, objectified: are men the new women?

Modern men are less fertile, more weight-obsessed and 'non-essential to parenting', so no wonder they are confused about modern masculinity, the Observer reports.

In June, men discovered that their libidos are in freefall, prompting a 40 per cent increase in males seeking counselling for impotence problems. Their existential angst worsened in July, when British men discovered that they have the most unequal paternity rights in Europe.
According to Nicola Brewer, chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, fathers in the UK are seen as 'not essential for parenting'. The same month saw the publication of a medical study that proved the quality of men's sperm declines to such an extent after they hit 45 that the chances of a partner's miscarriage are doubled.

It's not only their internal biology; men are also succumbing to the traditionally female preoccupation of looking good on the outside, too. Sales of male beauty products have leapt 30 per cent over the past decade. Almost 20 per cent more men are having plastic surgery than ever before while, last year, researchers from Harvard discovered that a quarter of anorexia and bulimia sufferers is male. During the fashion shows, male models had their own equivalent of the size-zero debate.

Every week, it seems as if there are new surveys and studies tripping over themselves to paint the grimmest possible picture of modern masculinity. They tell us that men are more neurotic and less fulfilled than ever before; that they are objectified rather than revered; that they are expected to be more in touch with their emotions and yet are criticised for it.

Men appear to be confused about what they are and unsure about who they are meant to be. So with more of them feeling disenfranchised, disillusioned and disempowered, is it feasible to think of men as the new oppressed minority? Might men, in fact, be the new women? And, if so, who is to blame for making them feel marginalised?

Read on at the link to find out...

The question is, are men really in such a mess? Men, are you confused about what you are and who you're supposed to be? Do you feel under pressure to look and act in new and confusing ways? Has the world changed drmatically for you? And women, are the men in your life facing these dilemmas? If so, where do they come from, and what can we do about them?

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Straight girls are all "vaguely lesbian"

“For heterosexual women,” a researcher, Meredith Chivers, says in a new... more

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Thai school offers transsexual toilet

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Transgender people and drag kings

this is video I found on youTube of trans guys and drg kings in 1996!

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Living together no longer 'playing house'

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Women are bitches and guys are pigs...

British scientists have uncovered the truth behind one of modern culture’s greatest mysteries: why little girls play with pink toys. Is it because toy companies flood whole store aisles with the color? Or because well-meaning relatives shower girl babies with pink blankets and clothing? Nope. According to the men in lab coats, it’s purely biological.

Apparently, women are hardwired to like pink because our cavewoman foremothers spent their days gathering red leaves and berries amongst the trees while their husbands were out hunting. Later, women needed to notice red-faced babies and blushing boyfriends. And why do men like blue? Because it’s the color of the sky.

This evolutionary just-so story takes up three pages of a 2007 issue of Current Biology. To back up the assertion that pink is a universal girly preference worth examining, the authors refer to a 1985 study finding that little girls use more pink and red crayons in their drawings than little boys do.

Dig further, however, and the story completely falls apart. British women do prefer pink, but the author’s claim of a “robust, cross-cultural sex difference” turns out to be neither. The scientists compared British natives with Chinese immigrants to Britain, and glossed over the differences. For example: The girliest color in the British results, a purplish-pink, was in fact the Chinese men’s favorite.

Nowhere do scientific findings get more mangled than when they’re about the differences between men and women. According to the science pages, women aren’t just biologically hardwired to prefer pink to blue. We’re also predisposed to backstab one another in the workplace, cry in the boardroom, and have both lower iqs and less of a sense of humor than men.

Some misleading stories come from bad science, where the study authors’ conclusions aren’t supported by their own data. Others are well-conducted studies whose conclusions mutate upon contact with the mainstream media. Newspapers and websites are prone to playing fast and loose with their reports on studies, often neglecting to reveal salient facts about a study’s sample group or methodology.

The fact is that science articles aren’t designed to be read by non-scientists. College and grad students in the sciences are trained in how to do it: They review papers and discuss them in journal clubs; learn how to question methodologies (Is that sample really big enough? Was that the right test to use?); and learn how to be critical of authors’ interpretations (Do the results really mean what they say they mean?). Students also know to look at context for each study, looking up previous papers on the subject, reviewing the authors’ previous work, and searching out any evidence of bias that might color a study’s findings

< I read this article a while ago and did not notice how long it was until i printed it because i devoured it. to all my fellow girls out there, read and remember the next time a crappy article surfaces explaining, scientifically of course, the differences between the sexes >
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Mean Girls: Society's Creation

Our society raises boys to be loud and aggressive. However, we raise our girls to be... more

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Women who don't submit to husbands are to blame for domestic violence, says Baptist scholar

One reason that men abuse their wives is because women rebel against their... more

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Saving Our Youth

Revolutionary Sista Damali Abrams and BETJ Host Abiola Abrams discuss what's... more

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What we can learn from gay marriages

Studies show that women in heterosexual relationships live with a lot of anger and... more

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Russian Strippers

Male strippers are a new phenomenon in Russia... and the women are going crazy for them!

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Musical Taste

Do men and women have different responses to music? Are women typically more... more

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Does biology or society have a stronger influence on the development of our gender identity?

Society, rather than biology, is the main determining factor in defining one's... more

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Sherri Shephard says No Dresses for Her son!

The View's surprisingly most controversial co-host Sherri Shephard is at it again... more

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Women in Audio Recording

Women make up less than 5% of the audio recording industry. I had to know why. It was... more

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Why men and women argue differently

An exploration of the differences in Mars and Venus

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The Crying Game: Male vs. Female Tears

"'Please, please, please, just give the dog back,' Ellen DeGeneres wept... more

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