Omnivore - Of the Two Sexes

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, here is a collection of links on men and women and the issues that drive gender theory.

Of the Two Sexes

Aug 8 2014
3:00PM

• Janet Radcliffe-Richards (Oxford): Only X%: The Problem of Sex Equality. 
• Robert Deaner (GVSU), Rickey Carter and Michael Joyner (Mayo), and Sandra Hunter (Marquette): Men Are More Likely than Women to Slow in the Marathon. 
• Millions of years of fist fights have altered the human face to leave men's jaws more robust than women's, a study has found. 
• Joni M. Lakin (Auburn) and James L. Gambrell (ACT): Sex Differences in Fluid Reasoning: Manifest and Latent Estimates from the Cognitive Abilities Test. 
• The Mars and Venus question: A variation in the cognitive abilities of the two sexes may be more about social development than gender stereotypes.
• In the brain of the father: Why men can be just as good primary parents as women. 
• No, men aren’t “having it all” either: A CEO steps back, and shows that the work-life challenge is for guys too. 
• Why are there no female Sheldon Adelsons? Rebecca Traister on the real reasons for the absence of free-spending women political donors. 
• Kat Stoeffel on why it shouldn’t take having a daughter for men to care about feminism. 
• A new study helps explain why some people get enraged when women have sex. 
• A new study helps explain why Hobby Lobby supporters are so fiercely opposed to birth control: The idea that ensuring access to affordable birth control is harmful to society because it leads to promiscuity and infidelity. 
• Tara Culp-Ressler on the GOP’s plot to convince you they support birth control. 
• Phyllis Schlafly explains why feminism has made women unhappy. 
• The women of the men's rights movement: Alex Brook Lynn goes inside the online world of honey badgers, trolls, and feminist threats. 
• Punching Gloria Steinem: Jessica Valenti goes inside the bizarre world of anti-feminist women. 
• Hey, “women against feminism”: Feminism still has your back so you’re welcome. 
• Christina Sterbenz on the 24 words that are most known to only men or women.

Omnivore - Men's Issues

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, this collection of links on men's issues should give you plenty to read for a Sunday afternoon.

Men's Issues

Jul 24 2014
3:00PM

• Sam de Boise (York): Learning to Be Affected: Masculinities, Music and Social Embodiment. 
• Stephen Burrell (Tampere): The Invisibility of Men's Practices: A Discourse Analysis of Gender in Domestic Violence Policy. 
• Joanna Schroeder on violence in the everyday lives of our boys. 
• Why are boys so lonely and violent? Niobe Way on the friendship crisis. 
• With a sequel to Fight Club on the way, are men still suffering the same anxieties and frustrations which inspired the original story two decades ago? 
• Americans think they’re smarter than the average American — rich white guys think this most of all. 
• The Louis C.K. Effect: Jesse Singal on why overweight men have higher status than overweight women. 
• John Burnside on why men avoid growing up.  
• How to Pick Up Girls!, the PUA community's foundational text, is a deeply disturbing portrait of male entitlement. 
• “Feminism is a sexual strategy”: Inside the angry online men’s rights group. 
• At what was billed as the first annual international conference on men’s issues, feminists were ruining everything (and more). 
• Men’s rights conference host Paul Elam says women who drink and dance are “begging” for rape. 
• Meet Marilyn D. York, female men’s rights attorney. 
• In praise of the “beta male”: Tracy Clark-Flory on how sensitive, nurturing, conflict-averse communicators make great partners. 
• Yes, men, you can be feminists — but it’s actually really hard work. 
• Noah Berlatsky on a short history of male feminism: From Frederick Douglass and John Stuart Mill to today's scholars, there are plenty of men who, despite their flaws, have helped advance women's liberation. 
• Men as feminist allies: 35 practical tools for men to further feminist revolution. 
• “It's not a contradiction for men to discriminate against other men”: An interview with Adam Jones, author of Gender Inclusive: Essays on Violence, Men, and Feminist International Relations.

The Tantrum of Masculinity - Omnivore

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, here is a new collection of links themed on masculinity.The topics include patriarchy, male competition, academic masculinities, education, military masculinities, and pick up artists (PUAs).

And speaking of PUAs, there are also the mandatory links to articles blaming men, masculinity, patriarchy, and guns for the shooting rampage in Isla Vista. If only it were that simple.

The tantrum of masculinity

May 26 2014
9:00AM

• From Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, Daniel J. Kruger (Michigan), Maryanne L. Fisher (St. Mary’s), and Paula Wright (Newcastle): Patriarchy, Male Competition, and Excess Male Mortality; and Dario Maestripieri, Amanda Klimczuk, Daniel Traficonte, and M. Claire Wilson (Chicago): Ethnicity-Related Variation in Sexual Promiscuity, Relationship Status, and Testosterone Levels in Men. 
• Christopher R. Matthews (Brighton): Biology Ideology and Pastiche Hegemony. 
• Lawrence D. Berg , Levi Gahman, and Neil J. Nunn (UBC): Neoliberalism, Masculinities and Academic Knowledge Production: Towards a Theory of “Academic Masculinities”. 
• A link between fidgety boys and a sputtering economy: A gender difference in behavioral skills, seen as early as kindergarten, is hurting boys’ academic prospects and their earning potential. 
• Discharged under the rainbow: Ariel M. Martinez on military masculinities and Don't Ask, Don't Tell. 
• The tantrum of masculinity: Elisabeth Donnelly interviews Rebecca Solnit on mansplaining, power, and her book Men Explain Things to Me. 
• 10 years later, The Game has changed for pick-up artist Neil Strauss: “To hear Strauss tell it, PUA is about using male sexuality as a force for good in the world”. 

Here are the requisite articles on the Isla Vista killings last Friday.

• Amanda Hess on the Pick-Up Artist community’s predictable, horrible response to a mass murder. 
• It denies reality to pretend that Rodger’s sense of masculine entitlement and views about women didn’t matter or somehow existed in a vacuum. 
• Laurie Penny on calling the Isla Vista killings what they were: misogynist extremism (and more and more). 
• Here are some of the most powerful #YesAllWomen tweets (and more and more and more and more and more).

 from the 12:00 pm entry:

• Rightbloggers say Santa Barbara killer Elliot Rodger's sexist rants have nothing to do with sexism (or guns). 
• In the deadly aftermath of Elliot Rodger’s psychotic and suicidal shooting spree that left six others dead, the muted echoes of David Attias — who killed four people in Isla Vista 12 years ago — will be bouncing off Isla Vista’s blood-stained streets for some time to come. 

The Gender Binary (Omnivore)

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, a new collection of links looking at the gender binary (and Facebook's "antagonistic relationship to gender), the gender gap in pay, and variations on gender differences and gender essentialism.

The Gender Binary

May 19 2014
3:00PM

• Janell L. Blazovich (St. Thomas), Kirsten A. Cook (Texas Tech), and Murphy Smith (Murray State): Do Ethical Firms Bridge the Gender Gap in CEO Compensation? 
• Yinlong Zhang (UTSA), Lawrence Feick (Pittsburgh), and Vikas Mittal (Rice): How Males and Females Differ in Their Likelihood of Transmitting Negative Word of Mouth. 
• Marcus Dittrich (CUT): Gender Differences in Strategic Reasoning. 
• Catherine Ruth Pakaluk and Joseph Burke (Ave Maria): The New Battle of the Sexes: A 2 X 2 Model of Female Alienation. 
• Rena Bivens (Carleton): The Gender Binary Will Not Be Deprogrammed: Facebook's Antagonistic Relationship to Gender. 
• Aya Gruber (Colorado): Neofeminism. 
• Zachary A. Kramer (ASU): The New Sex Discrimination. 
• Henriette Prast (Tilburg), Mariacristina Rossi (Turin), Costanza Torricelli (UNIMORE), and Cristina Druta (Maastricht): Do Women Prefer Pink? The Effect of a Gender Stereotypical Stock Portfolio on Investing Decisions. 
• Marcia Angell reviews The XX Factor: How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World by Alison Wolf. 
• Gender and neoliberalism: Christina Scharff on exploring the exclusions and contours of neoliberal subjectivities. 
• Sex, culture and justice: Clare Chambers interviewed by Richard Marshall. 
• The confidence gap: Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men — and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence; Katty Kay and Claire Shipman on why and what to do about it. 
• Allison Kopicki on women and the “I don’t know” problem. 
• Charts of the day, female risk-aversion edition. 
• Girls’ ascendance in academic settings may portend a shift in the relative pay of men and women — but a change in social norms is needed, too.

Omnivore - A Manhood Problem (and a Rebuttal to Hanna Rosin)

Here is another feast of links form Bookforum's Omnivore blog - this time all of the links are related to men, masculinity, social gender theory, and other related topics - some interesting articles.

One of the articles linked below, by Hanna Rosin (The End of Men) is adapted from her opening statement at the Munk Debate, “Resolved: Men Are Obsolete,” held in Toronto. In it she offers a list of reasons supporting her contention that men are obsolete (not in a biological sense, but in a social constructivist sense).

Here are her five evidence points:

ONE: It’s the end of men because men are failing in the workplace [curator: and in education].
TWO: It’s the end of men because the traditional household, propped up by the male breadwinner, is vanishing.
THREE: It’s the end of men because we can see it in the working and middle class.
FOUR: It’s the end of men because men have lost their monopoly on violence and aggression.
FIVE: It’s the end of men because men, too, are now obsessed with their body hair.

These are weak points aside from number one. Point two is relevant, but not necessarily a bad thing if the men are still involved in raising their kids (but they often aren't).

Once again, as I have argued before, this is not the end of men any more than the 60s and 70s was the end of women. Men are in a transitional space as far as our role in society, and how we navigate this transition will determine whether men evolve into greater care and compassion, or retrench themselves in traditional, domination models of masculinity. How women engage this transition will make all of the difference.

A manhood problem

Apr 21 2014
9:00AM

• The inaugural issue of Violence and Gender is out. 
• Ryan Schacht, Kristin Liv Rauch, and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder (UC-Davis): Too Many Men: The Violence Problem? 
• Ying Jie Chen (NTU): Surplus Males and Societal Implications. 
• Deniese Kennedy-Kollar (Molloy) and Christopher A. D. Charles (West Indies): Hegemonic Masculinity and Mass Murderers in the United States. 
• Luke A. Boso (Savannah): Policing Masculinity in Small-Town America. 
• Ann McGinley (UNLV) and William S. Boyd (Suffolk): How Masculinities Distribute Power: The Influence of Ann Scales. 
• Kaitlin Clinnin (OSU): Playing with Masculinity: Gender Bending in Second Life. 
• Michael J. Higdon (Tennessee): Marginalized Fathers and Demonized Mothers: A Feminist Look at the Reproductive Freedom of Unmarried Men. 
• Jonathan Crowe (Queensland): Can Men Be Feminists? 
• Mark Karlin on how America continues to suffer the male rage of the “white wing”. 
• This American Bro: John Saward on a portrait of the worst guy ever. 
• Erin Gloria Ryan on the United States of Bros: A map and field guide. 
• Men, manliness, and being naked around other men: Richard Senelick on a culture that tells people to "man up" when it comes to nudity. 
• Chris Hayes, pro athletes and “being a man”: Elizabeth Stoker on our demented masculinity debate. 
• Does the rise of men’s sexual objectification = equality? 
• Audra Schroeder on what society would look like if men experienced street harassment. 
• Your friends and rapists: Sarah Nicole Prickett on how dick culture permits the crime. 
• Hanna Rosin on why men are obsolete. 
• Lydia DePillis on the end of men, in one chart. 
• Men of the world, lean out! 
• A mere six-pack doesn't cut it in Hollywood anymore; today's male stars need 5 percent body fat, massive pecs, and the much-coveted inguinal crease. 
• David Brooks says Obama has “a manhood problem in the Middle East”.

The Production of Patriarchy - Bookforum Omnivore

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, here is yet another fascinating collection of links on masculinity, patriarchy, and feminism, among other things.

Among the interesting reads is Constructing Our Own Definition of Masculinity: An Intersectionality Approach by Cristobal Salinas Jr. and Cameron C. Beatty (Iowa State), a talk given at the 2013 ACPA Annual Convention  (Las Vegas, NV), entitled "Looking Forward: A Dialogue on College Men and Masculinities."

Enjoy.

The Production of Patriarchy

Dec 20 2013
9:00AM

• Cristobal Salinas Jr. and Cameron C. Beatty (Iowa State): Constructing Our Own Definition of Masculinity: An Intersectionality Approach. 
• Peter J. Phillips (USQ): Female Lone Wolf Terrorism: The Economic Analysis of Uniquely Gendered Lived Experiences. 
• Ken Pennington (CUA): Women on the Rack: Torture and Gender in the Ius commune.
• From Crime Library, Katherine Ramsland on women who kill (and part 2). 
• Alice Robb on why you should be wary of studies that claim men and women's brains are wired differently. 
• From New Left Project, Hannah Davies on patriarchy and propaganda; Sam de Boise on patriarchy and the “crisis of masculinity”; and making masculinities: Kevin Guyan on domestic space and the production of patriarchy. 
• Women writers are far outnumbered by men in magazines and book reviews, but why? Miriam Markowitz says part of the answer lies in book publishing. 
• Mychal Denzel Smith on the normalization of violence against black women. 
• Die like a man: Laura Hudson on the toxic masculinity of Breaking Bad. 
• Eli Zaretsky on rethinking the split between feminists and the Left. 
• Feminism is not for everybody: Jacq Brasseur takes a look at “whitestream” feminism. 
• Up close with small-town white rage, with bitter, scary men who feel left behind by economic and cultural change: An excerpt from Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era by Michael Kimmel. 
• Alice Dreger on why gender dysphoria should no longer be considered a medical disorder. 
• Sara Yager on how women change men — as daughters, sisters, wives, and co-workers. 
• Carole Pateman on The Sexual Contract twenty-five years later: A response.

Omnivore Linkage - Gender, Patriarchy, and MRAs

Here is a new collection of links from Bookforum's Omnivore blog, this one dealing with gender issues, patriarchy, men's rights activists, feminism, and other interesting topics.

Gender-specific

Nov 14 2013
9:00AM

• From Reconstruction, a special issue on politicized (re)productions of gender. 
• In a world where men and masculinity are valued above women and femininity and the voice of god sounds like a man, can there be any sense of justice? 
• I’m not a feminist but: These American teens look up to their strong mothers and believe in equal rights — so why won’t they use the F-word? 
• Noah Berlatsky on what Joss Whedon gets wrong about the word “feminist”. 
• From New Left Project, it is perhaps one of the most used terms in feminist discourse, but the concept of patriarchy has a history that we need to address; and pornography, patriarchy and liberalism: Bob Brecher on re-reading Andrea Dworkin. 
• From New York, what does manhood mean in 2013? Ann Friedman investigates. 
• The Masculine Mystique: For the past decade, the Men's Rights Movement has been gaining traction on the Internet — and growing ever more radical in its attacks on feminists. 
• A good men’s rights movement is hard to find: Jaclyn Friedman on how the rise of men's rights activists is hurting women — and men. 
• In response to the rampant misogyny of the Internet, feminists are putting "misandry" on shirts, hats and jewelry. 
• How Jezebel smashes the patriarchy, click by click: An interview with the website's founder, Anna Holmes, on Photoshopped models, encyclopedic thinking, and why she couldn't care less about male readers (and more and more). 
• Lisa Wade on power, Mickey Mouse, and the infantilization of women. 
• A look at the 20 worst gender-specific products possible.

Omnivore - Gender Gap

Here is another cool collection of links from Bookforum's Omnivore blog - this one centered on all things gender-related. I highly recommend the Buzzfeed piece on the resignation of Tom Matlock from the Good Men Project (he remains the primary investor and shareholder, but nothing else), an event that somehow slipped beneath my radar when it happened.

Gender gap

Oct 4 2013
3:00PM 

• From Scholar and Feminist Online, a special issue on Gender, Justice, and Neoliberal Transformations. 
• Marcia Anne Yablon-Zug (South Carolina): Mail Order Feminism. 
• John M. Kang (St. Thomas): Does Manly Courage Exist? 
• Anca Gheaus (Sheffield): Three Cheers for the Token Woman. 
• Richard L. Fox (Loyola Marymount) and Jennifer L. Lawless (American): Uncovering the Origins of the Gender Gap in Political Ambition. 
• Beth A. Burkstrand-Reid (Nebraska): From Sex for Pleasure to Sex for Parenthood: How the Law Manufactures Mothers. 
• From Buzzfeed, is now-departed founder of the Good Men Project Thomas Matlack bad for good men? 
• Losing it: Mikael Bingham on women with short hair. 
• Debora L. Spar on where feminism went wrong: Has feminism raised the bar so high that women are condemned to fall below it? 
• William Murchison reviews Deadly Consequences: How Cowards are Pushing Women into Combat by Robert L. Maginnis. 
• Scott Melzer on ritual violence in a two-car garage: What attracts some suburban professionals, dads, and husbands to a fight club? 
• Hanna Rosin on why feminists won’t accept that things are looking up for women (and more). 
• From The Baffler, Susan Faludi on Facebook feminism, like it or not. Of sex and procreation in prehistory: An excerpt from The Masculine Civilization by Rene Hirsch. 
• From TNR, Alice Robb on how National Review wages a lonely war on the "War on Women"; and have professional women created a worse world for their working class peers? Nora Caplan-Bricker investigates.

This collection of links from Bookforum's Omnivore blog is from the first week of the month, but there are some useful and interesting links here with which to waste some time.

Men are people and women are women

Sep 3 2013
9:00AM

• Greta Olson (Giessen): Recovering from the Men We Loved to Hate: Barack Obama as a Representative of Post-Post September 11 White House Masculinity. 
• Peggy Li (UC-Berkeley): Physical Attractiveness and Femininity: Helpful or Hurtful for Female Attorneys. 
• Paul Sargent (SDSU): Reluctant Role Models: Men Teachers and the Reproduction of Hegemonic Masculinity. 
• Mary E. Guy (Colorado): Inch by Inch: Gender Equity Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 
• John M. Kang (St. Thomas): Does Manly Courage Exist? 
• Karie Cross (Notre Dame): The Gendered Effects of Structural Violence. 
• Marijke De Pauw (VUB): Women's Rights: From Bad to Worse? Assessing the Evolution of Incompatible Reservations to the CEDAW Convention. 
• Estelle B. Freedman on feminism’s amazing achievement: Changing the conversation — and laws — about rape. 
• Men are people and women are women: The Home Depot edition (and more). 
• “There is no pressure for a girl to be a girl”: Caroline Kitchener on her quest to understand why some of her female friends are drawn to the frattiest social club on campus. 
• Sarah Hawkes on how gender norms are killing men. 
• The Pinterest Effect: Jessica Grose on the rise of DIY and the end of expertise — nouveau domesticity isn't just anti-feminist. 
• Why do so many incompetent men become leaders? Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic wonders. 
• The oldest war: Remember when the battle of the sexes was a laughing matter?

Omnivore - Differences Between Men and Women

From Friday's issue of Bookforum's Omnivore blog, this is an interesting assortment of links for articles dealing with the various differences between men and women.

Between Men and Women

JUL 12 2013 

3:00PM

• Rey Hernandez-Julian (Metropolitan State College of Denver) and Kurt W. Rotthoff (Seton Hall): Are Big-Time Sports a Threat to Student Achievement? 
• Another Look at the Differences between Men and Women. Mary Anne Franks (Miami): How to Feel Like a Woman, or, Why Punishment Is a Drag. 
• Valorie K. Vojdik (Tennessee): Sexual Violence Against Men and Women in War: A Masculinities Approach. 
• From the latest issue of the Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, Kyungok Sim (SUNY-Albany): The Relationship between Sex-typical Body Shape and Quality Indicators. 
• Lily Hiott-Millis on the gender book everyone should read. 
• Are women better babysitters? Surveys show that people trust women more than men as caregivers. 
• Until men are also expected to take time away from work to be with children, workers of both genders face a vicious cycle. 
• Richard Dorment on why men still can’t have it all. 
• What men want, America delivers: From Robin Thicke's latest songs to abortion restrictions around the country, America's all about men's desires. 
• Women worldwide know less about politics than men (and a response). 
• What stereotypes do Europeans of today hold about men and women's intuition? 
• Andrew Hartman on masculinity and the culture wars. 
• Connecting on Wall Street: Are male and female financial analysts evaluated on the basis of different criteria?

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, here is a collection of links on the state of masculinity in America. There are three links to articles exposing the fraud of the men's rights movement (which is not to claim, or at least I don't, that ALL men's rights activists are a poor reflection on men in general - some are good guys and their issues are important). As a movement, this small but vocal minority is giving masculinity a bad name.

The perils of masculinity

MAY 8 2013

9:00AM

• Dean Laplonge and Kath Albury (UNSW): Doing Safer Masculinities: Addressing at-Risk Gendered Behaviours on Mine Sites. 
• Susan M. Landt (St. Norbert): Books for Boys: Multicultural Literature with Strong Male Characters. 
• From Crisis, Donald DeMarco on barriers to teaching boys how to become men. 
• What being a handyman has taught Andy Hinds about male insecurity: Some guys feel really bad about the fact that they don't know how to hang crown molding. 
• The perils of masculinity and the truth about sex: Jonathan M. Metzl reviews Why Men Fake It: The Totally Unexpected Truth About Men and Sex by Abraham Morgentaler. 
• From Vice, Allegra Ringo on why men’s rights activists are celebrating the Brian Banks case for the wrong reason; and Brad Casey went to a men’s rights lecture in Toronto — and discovered that they’re a bunch of losers. 
• Men's rights activists bombard feminist with death threats — and it's the wrong woman.

America's Military-Masculinity Complex and Other Issues of Masculinity

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, an interesting collection of links about masculinity - most of them dealing with the more toxic and violent (i.e., archaic) forms of masculinity. Looking at these, you might think men were little more than sexually coercive and violent criminals/terrorists.

Of these, the first one is perhaps the most interesting - here is the abstract:

Feminism, Masculinities, and Multiple Identities
Martha Albertson Fineman

Abstract:
Masculinities scholarship could be seen as distinct from and complementary to feminist theory — an independent and parallel companion theory, developed by men. In this regard, from a feminist’s perspective masculinities scholarship might be thought of as ethnography, helpfully providing insights into the operations and assumptions of a distinct masculine culture. This approach would seem to validate the notion that there are significant differences between men’s and women’s experiences and perspectives, and consideration of both is necessary to form a complete legal theory picture. Feminist legal theory and masculinities theory are thus seen as both contrasting and complementary in nature.

On the other hand, masculinities scholarship can be understood as providing the basis for a critique of feminist legal theory. This approach begins with the allegation that feminist legal theory generally and incorrectly treats men as a monolithic group when there is in fact a multiplicity of male identities. Masculinities scholarship, in this framing, could be categorized as the male-focused companion to critiques that have been made over the past thirty years that feminist legal theory is excluding and essentializing. It is this understanding of the significance of masculinities to feminist legal theory that prompted this Essay.

Toxic masculinity

APR 29 2013

9:00AM

• Martha Albertson Fineman (Emory): Feminism, Masculinities, and Multiple Identities. 
• Jamie R. Abrams (Louisville): Enforcing Masculinities at the Borders. 
• Why is the social shaping of masculinity not an urgent policy issue? Cynthia Cockburn and Ann Oakley on the cost of masculine crime. 
• Andrea Castillo on the problems with “patriarchy”: How does a system that was supposedly created for the domination of men fail so miserably to save such a large number of its prized specimens from such dreadful outcomes? 
• Jaclyn Friedman on Toxic Masculinity: If we want to end the pandemic of rape, it’s going to require an entire global movement of men willing to do the hard work of interrogating the ideas they were raised with. 
• Why are terrorists so often men? Tamerlan Tsarnaev was performing a kind of masculinity through public destruction. 
• America's military-masculinity complex is generating violence on a mass scale — at home.

Omnivore - Gendering Everything

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, a great collection of links on gender studies, masculinity, tough guys, and how being attractive makes men funnier (and here I thought being funny might be make me more attractive).


Gendering everything

MAR 28 2013 

9:00AM

• Katharine K. Baker (IIT): Sex and Equality. 
• Emma Poulton (Durham): “If You Had Balls, You'd Be One of Us!” Doing Gendered Research: Methodological Reflections on Being a Female Academic Researcher in the Hyper-Masculine Subculture of “Football Hooliganism”. 
• Christian Williams on the trouble with tough guys. 
• Erika Bachiochi on why U.N. feminists should want to partner with the Holy See. 
• It’s well-established being funny makes men more attractive — now a new paper reports that being attractive makes men funnier. 
• Sympathy for the stay-at-home mom: Judith Shulevitz on an argument about work, life, and the modern calendar. 
• The final feminist frontier: Why men still don't do their share of the dirty work. 
• The retro wife: Lisa Miller on feminists who say they’re having it all — by choosing to stay home. 
• Donald N.S. Unger on how men can't have it all either. 
• Yes, we’re still gendering everything.