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Stuff Mom Never Told You about Chivalry and Celibacy
by Molly Edmonds | September 24, 2010
This week’s episodes of Stuff Mom Never Told You were brought to you by the letter C (and I’m not just referring to Cristen). We talked about chivalry and celibacy, two big topics that we hope will start some good conversations — another C-word!
First on the docket was chivalry. While chivalry originally referred to a code of conduct followed by knights, the meaning of the word has evolved to denote any act of courtesy provided by a man to a woman.
Stuff Mom Never Told You about Ecofeminism and Weight Loss
by Molly Edmonds | September 17, 2010
Are women better suited than men to save the environment? Are men more adept at women when it comes to losing weight? These were the questions we discussed this week on Stuff Mom Never Told You. The conclusion we came to with both subjects? Let’s stop this battle of the sexes and focus on what we can do as individuals.
A study that revealed a significant wealth gap went pretty much unreported when it came out last March. The study, conducted by the Insight Center for Community and Economic Development out of California, showed the disparity in wealth (the amount of money left over after you deduct debt from assets) between the races and among gender. What was revealed is not pretty.
How do you feel about the title of this post? Are you immediately turned off, or do you want to read more? And if you’re in the first camp, are you male?
Back in March, the L.A. Times reported that Disney’s new animated film would be titled “Tangled” instead of “Rapunzel.” The reason? Boys wouldn’t want to see a movie that alluded to a female character in the title.
Forgive the exploitative (and awesome) headline, but it’s Friday and I feel like we all might need a good scientific tidbit to carry with us to our various dinner parties, hot dates, family meals or Xbox Live gaming sessions. Live your life how you see fit, people, just make sure you talk about gender-bending chickens.
As covered by NPR (and published in Nature), Michael Clinton of the University of Edinburgh studies these amazing chickens, which are known in sciencey circles as “gynandromorphs.” I kid you not: they’re split right down the middle. One side looks like a rooster; the other side like a hen. Seriously, look at the photo.
Gossip is often linked to women and tends to get a bad rap, but in fact, men like to gossip, too. And it’s not all bad. Tune in to this episode of Stuff Mom Never Told You to get the dirt on gossip and gender.
As my fellow HowStuffWorks blogger Marshall Brain pointed out in an earlier post, the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) has called into question whether South African runner Caster Semenya is indeed a female. Shortly after the 18-year-old won the women’s world 800 meters, the IAAF announced that Semenya will have to undergo gender testing.
In 2006, another female athlete competing at the Asian Games also underwent gender testing and failed — after passing the same exams a year earlier.
Some theorists suggest that single-sex classrooms create more effective learning environments, while others disagree. Tune in as Molly and Cristen weigh the arguments for and against gender-segregated classrooms in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.
Statistics show that female workers still bring home less bacon than men. Tune in to this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com to hear Molly and Cristen debate possible causes of this gender wage gap and ways to address it.
There’s an interesting article from yesterday’s New York Times about a school in the Bronx that’s experimenting with splitting up the girls and boys in its fifth grade class. The goal is basically to see what happens in relation to behavioral improvements, testing, etc. It turns out that there’s even a national movement going on to split up boys and girls in public schools. There are more than 400 such classes around the country, thanks to a federal regulation passed in 2004 that gave schools the right to do so.
There isn’t enough test data yet to suggest that the move has academic benefits, but teachers and students alike have good things to say so far. Both male and female teachers feel that it’s bonding them to their students more and that the students are bonding to each other.
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