This Open Thread has been brought to you by plausible ideas of what feminists are like. I’m going on vacation to Chicago to see the Fields Museum, and also something about a wedding shower or s...
Hat tip to Tobias. The Internal Medicine News covers a study showing that oral HPV is three times more prevalent among men than women. Oral HPV has been linked to something called “oropharyngea...
I would like to present this year’s Most Disgusting Sentence in an Academic Paper award. I realize it’s somewhat early in the year, but I don’t think that we’re going to find ...
Tracy McMillan is a lady who makes her living telling women why they aren’t married. (She’s an expert in this subject, you see, because she has been married three times.) She has recently...
This is my biggest piece of advice, and it ought to be really reassuring to a lot of awkward people. If you genuinely are kind and mean well and are interested in other people, most people can tell.
The Atlantic recently ran an article about how the US economy is biased against men. My response? Please, please stop helping. You’re making the rest of us look bad. It’s ridiculous to sa...
A bunch of shiny links below the cut to all the interesting things people who aren’t me are talking about in the Series of Tubes. Captain Awkward teaches us how to solve relationship problems w...
Today is Memorial Day in the United States, a day of remembering all the men and women who have died in the Armed Forces. War is hell. Sometimes it is necessary, and I mourn those who have died in th...
So, apparently we’ve moved! Fuck, I have to stop taking a vacation now and actually post. My life is so haaaaaaaard. GMPers, you may not know much about me. I’m Ozy Frantz! I’m the ...
This Open Thread has been brought to you by what Ozy was doing the whole time zie was taking an unannounced vacation.
We are constantly bombarded with different messages of how to “be a man.” The phrase “Real Men do _____” is often used to shame men who don’t conform to this ideal. The ...
This is an extra-special edition of the Monday Roundup, with an Exciting Fucking Announcement on the bottom! Noah Brand On the Good Men Project: is the Violence Against Women Act sexist? The Weird Po...
While watching the Tim Burton flick Dark Shadows (it’s very Tim Burton), I was able to witness advertisements for new TV shows, because God forbid we have a single second in the theater where w...
So asks Esquire. Now, if I were a sensible person, I’d just say “no” and take the rest of the day off to watch My Little Pony, but I’m clearly not, so now we are going to have...
This Open Thread has been brought to you by the fact that my school has a sign on the doors that only open one way that says “ceci n’est pas une exit”…
Today, blogging has been outsourced to a couple different bloggers, because finals and also depression. 1) Is This Feminist? is my new favorite Tumblr. (The answer is always no.) 2) Roger Ebert said ...
Regular readers may recall Glenn Grothman, the Wisconsin state senator awarded the position of the biggest asshole on the entire fucking planet. Well, he won’t let this status disappear! In fac...
It’s still Monday somewhere, right? Noah Brand Stuff at the GMP: (Trigger warning for discussion of rape) On Missoula, Montana, the rape capital of the US; why hipsters do not suck as much as y...
Trigger warning for discussion of rape and mention of domestic violence and child abuse. The title of this AlterNet article is New Laws Banning Sex Offenders From Social Networks and Online Gaming Ma...
This Open Thread has been brought to you by Ozy’s tendency to post open thread pics that are totally about zir.
The LA Times (TW on the link for explicit descriptions of psychotic breaks) has found that the US army troops are more and more medicated with prescription psychiatric drugs. After two long-running w...
In India right now, RISUG– the reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance– is undergoing Phase III clinical trials. If it ends up working out, RISUG would make a truly amazing contrace...
Hey, everyone, it’s been a while! I have been dealing with assorted Brain Issues, and I’ll probably be flaky as shit for a while because sometimes even remembering to eat is difficult and...
This Open Thread has been brought to you by Ozy’s philosophy of language.
(TW for mentions of violence, bullying and suicide) About a year and a half ago, a story broke about a little girl who was teased for having a Star Wars water bottle because Star Wars “is for b...
Hey, do you notice anything interesting about this article about nine hate crimes directed against people of color? Let’s see here. Four young black men, black man, black man, shooting that inc...
TW for brief mentions of rape. The CDC has recently released some interesting information about how teenagers lose their virginities, so it is time for a Ozy Reads A Bunch Of Stats and Comments On Th...
Happy First of May! If you’re an Occupier, have a good time protesting and being on general strike! If you’re not Occupying anything, then have a nice time at work or school or watching A...
(You may be like “hey, where is Monday Roundup, that was my favorite part of the week?” If so, you are weird. Also, neither Noah or Ozy has much of anything new this week, as we were both...
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