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The Morning After
* For Slate, The Abstinence Teacher author Tom Perrotta explains the political appeal of Sarah Palin's "Sexy Puritan" archetype: I'm only trying to locate her within the context of the great American...
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I Know Why The Caged Bro Sings
Ever since "bro" crept out of the frat house basement and into the mainstream, the now-ubiquitous term has suffered a backlash. Consider the dominant definition of "bro" on urbandictionary.com:...
View ArticleD.C.’s Manliest Workplace Competition
Introducing the Manliest Workplace Competition: In search of D.C.'s most male organization. The American workplace's storied glass ceiling is in pretty bad shape. Female workers are on the fast track...
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Man Madness: Washington Redskins Vs. National Museum of Women in the Arts
Welcome back to The Sexist's Manliest Workplace in D.C. tournament, our ongoing unscientific investigation into the male/female ratios of local employers' org charts. Last week, we sewed up the Media...
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District of Columbia 45th Manliest City in U.S.
Giant stone erections fail to lift D.C. above the competition. Combos brand snacks has released a study (stay with me here) ranking the 50 manliest cities in the United States. Washington, D.C. ranks...
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Is the Facebook Avatar a Dude?
Sociological Images accuses Facebook of sexism and ethnocentricsm for using a "white and male" image as its default avatar to represent a typical user, while opting for "orange avatars of both sexes"...
View ArticleRecession Makes Bitches Bitchier
The recession is now in full swing, which means that journalists everywhere have a new excuse to write about the same shit they always wrote about, but now everything is worse. This time around: cat...
View ArticleStealth Anal Sex Anthem: Usher’s “Trading Places”
[youtube:v=lWMLbEj0_wI] The first time I heard Usher's new gender-bending single, "Trading Places," the D.J. introduced it as a "backseat jam"—a track that's very conducive to fucking. "Trading...
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The Worst Sexy Halloween Costumes: Sexy Male Edition
Andrew Sullivan crashed our servers this morning when he linked to our roundup of the baddest sexy Halloween costumes. The worst of the slutty holiday get-ups are generally reserved for the ladies. But...
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James Chartrand’s Constructed Masculinity Goes Far Beyond the Pen Name
Yesterday, career Web guy James Chartrand admitted that "he" is a woman, actually. Chartrand said that after she adopted the male pseudonym several years ago—one that sounded like it "might command...
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Five Questions for Deez Nuts: “It’s About All the Things That Affect These Nuts”
Deez Nuts, the local theater production being billed as the "all male spin to the Vagina Monologues," debuts this weekend at Dance Place. John Johnson, the 29-year-old Anacostia resident who created...
View ArticleStories From Male Groping Victims (And One Female Groper)
When the Washington Post's Gene Weingarten took the temperature of D.C.'s groping problem this week, he constructed two separate reader polls—one for women, and one for men. The women's poll asked...
View ArticleWhy Do So Many Men Die As A Result of Domestic Violence?
Last year, 53 people in the state of Maryland died as a result of domestic violence. According to the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence, which crunches the numbers for that sad statistic, the...
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How Many Manly Cupcakes Must A Man Devour Before You Can Call Him “Butch”?
It has recently come to my attention that a New York cupcake producer by the name of "Butch Bakery" has "decided it was time to combine a masculine aesthetic with a traditionally cute product—the...
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Celebrate Gay Marriage In D.C. With A Heteronormative Haircut!
City Paper contributor Trey Graham subscribes to Living Social, a Web site that alerts him to daily deals in the D.C. area. Today—the first day that gay couples in D.C. can legally be...
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What Men Do With Their Pubic Hair
This week, after a serious bitch session on the topic of replacing female pubic hair with space crystals, I asked the Sexist's male readers how they managed their own body hair. You did not...
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Sexist Beatdown: Manly Masculine Male Edition
A couple of guys just hangin' out. Two important developments in the World of Men this week: 1. A group of scholars, led by a man with the almost suspiciously masculine name of Lionel Tiger,...
View ArticleImpromptu Meeting of the Male Studies Department
Important Announcement: I have ceased all productive output this afternoon because I'm too busy making up fake names of Male Studies scholars on Twitter. For the uninitiated, "Male Studies" is the...
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When Will “Aesthetic Plastic Surgery” Empower Men, Too?
Dr. Val Lambros is five years into a 20-year study of how the face ages. Every five years, Lambros sits a group of study participants in front of a 3-D camera, maps out their faces, and then...
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Paint By Gender: What Color Is “Penis”?
From Austin to A&M points us to this amazing survey on gender variation in the naming of colors. In an effort to determine whether men and women identify colors differently, Randall Munroe had...
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“The Unemployable Man”: Still More Employable Than Woman
Last week, this graph accompanied a Wall Street Journal story on "The Unemployable Man," which delivered the "arresting" news that one in five men aged 25 to 54 are currently unemployed. "Women have...
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Sexist Comments of the Week: Exploding Masculinity Edition
Masculinity: Should we explode it? That's the question posed by Sexist commenters in last week's battle over the M-word and its place in the education of men and boys. So: Should we redefine...
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The Morning After: Battle Cry of the Menaissance Edition
* Sociological Images takes a ride on the way-back machine to examine the men's magazines of yore . . . you know, back when men were men. Tip via Jess, who was particularly fond of Battle Cry (above)....
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28 Percent of Women “Unsure” of Basic Facts of U.S. Independence
Click to enlarge. Last month, the Marist Poll asked 1,004 U.S. residents: From which country did the United States win its independence? The results varied based on region, household income, race,...
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Hiring Inequality Through The Daily Show
As it turns out, that fawning defense of The Daily Show by its women employees illustrates exactly what's wrong with the show's hiring practices. They write: Jon’s not just a guy in a suit reading a...
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