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Bronies: For Men Who Love ‘My Little Ponies’
by Cristen Conger | September 19, 2011
I guess I was a little behind on my Internet memes when I received an email from MomStuff listeners Regina a couple weeks ago. She wrote in to tell Caroline and me about a group of fanboys collectively known as “bronies.”In a nutshell, bronies are male fans of the “My Little Ponies Friendship Is Magic” animated series.
Men Use More Emoticons When Talking to Women
by Cristen Conger | August 5, 2011
A recent study of gendered language on Twitter got me thinking about emoticons. The analysis out of Scotland found that women’s tweets tend to be more emotive than men’s, riddled with “haha,” hehe, “omg” and “yay.” And — just to really cement the gender stereotypes here — “chocolate.”
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month doesn’t take place until October, when the pink and Halloween orange will duke it out for color supremacy (I’d put my cash on pink, FYI), but new research (via Forbes) indicates that it’s time to rethink pink.
Gallup poll finds American men prefer sons
by Cristen Conger | June 28, 2011
Since 1941, American men have expressed a preference for sons over daughters. Gallup poll data stretching back decades reveal that the proportion of both men and women who say that they’d rather have a son than a daughter has barely fluctuated, always hovering around 40 percent.
Just when we thought we had everything figured out about magically predicting how the sexual organs inside a fetus will turn out (barring telepathy — although I could probably sell a TV series called “Mind Reading Mommies” faster than you can say ‘breastfeeding’), some Japanese scientists had to come along and shake things right back up like a hysterical baby rattle.
Teen parents are more likely to produce boys while middle-aged parents are more like to produce girls. Satoshi Kanazawa over at Psychology Today breaks down this pattern by the numbers and comes up with a couple stunning observations:
Stuff Mom Never Told You about Dreams and Corsets
by Molly Edmonds | February 4, 2011
On any given night, I’m probably dreaming that I’m at school. Either college or high school — even though the people who pop up in the dream didn’t necessarily go to school with me — and it’s invariably the end of the semester. I haven’t been to class all semester and I’m in danger of failing unless I ace the final exam. But, of course, I can’t find the classroom. Or the bathroom. As it turns out, this frequent dream of mine may be due to my gender.
Stuff Mom Never Told You about Lying and Objectum Sexuality
by Molly Edmonds | January 28, 2011
I’m going to start this blog post by promising you that I won’t lie anywhere in the following text. Not that that’s unusual — I tend to tell the truth when I write these summaries of what was discussed on Stuff Mom Never Told You, but this week, in particular, it feels necessary to affirm my vow of honesty. That’s because on Monday, Cristen and I discussed lying.
Blow Your Mind: Ladies Night on Earth and the Overview Effect
by Robert Lamb | December 17, 2010
I want you to look into the future, a future where men are long extinct and an all-female race of super-short humans rule the earth beside their robotic physicians. Welcome to the Y chromosome apocalypse, gentlemen.
Yes, we’ve got two exciting podcasts for you this week. In Ladies Night on Earth we discuss the inevitable extinction of males and ponder why. And since males are merely altered female why do we keep them around? Julie and I will discuss the advantages of sexual reproduction and, in a move that has been dubbed “epic man fail” on Twitter, I refuse to defend my own gender against charges that it mucked up the world. Am I right, ladies?
Separating Neuroscience from Neurosexism
by Cristen Conger | September 30, 2010
I might have to even trade out my current book for Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender*, if only because it deals with something that Molly and I regularly run into while researching for Stuff Mom Never Told You. Since we spend so much time dissecting the wonderful and confusing differences between boys and girls, men and women, we probably have a lot of lessons to learn from Fine’s reexamination of the academic studies that we often pull from.
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