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Marriage has a lot of health benefits, but for women it can be a mixed bag. Science Daily reports that marrying a much younger man can shorten your lifespan. The effect holds true for marrying substantially older men as well, but is less pronounced.
Men, on the other hand, get a huge benefit from marrying a woman substantially younger than they are. Guys with young wives live longer, healthier lives than their peers who married someone their own age.
Why the discrepancy?
Today’s fathers do more childcare than our own dads probably did. They’re in the grocery stores with their toddlers, picking the kids up from school, riding with them on the subway.
But they’re still seen as special cases when they do. In his memoir, Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon talks about how women would come up to him in the grocery store and gush over what a great father he is. Not because he was doing anything special, but just because he was with his kids at all doing a simple everyday task.
Stranger’s reactions aren’t always so positive. In a moving essay on Transparental, Michel – who gave birth to two daughters before beginning his transition to manhood – writes about being confronted by a woman in a cafe who took him to be a Dangerous Stranger with his girls, until the little one called him “Mommy”. After a decade of parenting as a woman, he’s seeing the other side of this sexist coin.
Bulemic Barbie
If Barbie, often little girls’ exemplar of womanhood, is to represent females, she needs to mix it up.
Hey that’s the brand name. ‘Cause girls love to clean!
Underwear. A potty seat with or without the splash guard. There are some things that are made to be marketed to separate genders.
And then there’s bubblegum pink tape made “just for girls.” Because nothing says girl’s best friend like her school supplies? Continue reading »
Jezebel has alerted me to a troubling trend in Wal-Mart advertisements. It’s not exactly new news that Wal-Mart is not a progressive company, but this is still a pretty shameless ad campaign for the 21st Century.
So, what do the following two ads have in common? Continue reading »
The Alaska governor’s abrupt resignation set a lot of tongues wagging with a lot of theories. Was Palin ducking possible legal trouble? Preparing for a presidential bid? Setting herself up to become host of a daytime talk show? Well you can put your conspiracies away, because the answer has been found: Sarah Palin is pregnant.
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