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OK, that headline’s not true. Whether it’s funny is up for debate and varies depending on whether you already think men are funnier than women (and noticed that I, a woman, wrote it).
Do vegetarian and vegan diets affect menstrual cycles?
by Cristen Conger | August 10, 2011
A Stuff Mom Never Told You listener wrote in a couple weeks ago inquiring whether vegetarian and/or vegan diets can affect a woman’s periods. After doing some digging for studies and expert opinions, the simple answer is that there is no simple answer.
Even if you’re not a fan of the message, you have to hand it to Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, the ad firm behind the latest marketing “Got Milk?” marketing campaign: they’ve got a lot of people buzzing about milk. Granted, it’s an angry buzz, akin to a swarm of killer wasps. This time around, the California Milk Processor Board is urging men to bring home milk to soothe their female partner’s horrifying PMS symptoms.
And the Internet ain’t happy at the overtly sexist tone. There’s even an online petition to end the campaign. I could do without the lame marketing as well, but what I really want to know is: Does milk cure PMS? Is there some science among the sexism?
In short, yes. Women should already get around 1,000 to 1,200 milligrams of calcium daily to reduce their risk of osteoporosis, although medical experts disagree on just how much is appropriate.
For a not-so-lovely visual of just how much makeup women cake on their faces ever year, take a gander at “Natural Beauty.” Over nine hours, two makeup artists slathered 365 coats of makeup on the model.
Mark Zuckerberg probably had no idea that the social media juggernaut he created would one day be the stage on which countless women’s gender-specific insecurity and anxiety would play out for researchers to pick apart and analyze.
In 2011 alone, Facebook research (in academic and non-academic settings) has concluded the following…
Bizarre Human Mating Behaviors #5 – How women can get free drinks at a bar
by Marshall Brain | February 15, 2011
If you are interested in how human relationships work – especially sexual relationships between men and women and the courting rituals that lead up to them – then this article is fascinating: 13 Ways to Score Free Drinks The article offers a field guide to social engineering in the social topography of a typical American [...]
Come Sunday, many of us will gather around the television set to watch the Super Bowl. Some of us love this event because of the snacks involved (mmm, chicken wings!), some people want to see the latest commercials and some of us are suckers for the half-time show. Then there are those who will actually watch and care about the game. But don’t make assumptions about who falls into which category based on gender! According to several articles bouncing around the Web, the old stereotype that women can’t tell their quarterback from their running back has been dead for awhile.
So this article… Eek! A Male! …explains a problem that has been growing. Males have been demonized, as the opening sentences of the story reveal: Last week, the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, Timothy Murray, noticed smoke coming out of a minivan in his hometown of Worcester. He raced over and pulled out two small children, [...]
Stuff Mom Never Told You about Ponies and Drinking
by Molly Edmonds | November 18, 2010
If your weekend plans include re-reading “Black Beauty” while drinking a few bottles of wine, then boy oh boy, do I have some podcast episodes for you. This week on Stuff Mom Never Told You, we took on two of the great passions of women — a good horse and a good cocktail.
(Women’s) Laughter Is the Best Medicine
by Cristen Conger | November 16, 2010
Science concluded a long time ago (circa 1974) that laughter is contagious. Now we know that women are the best at spreading the joy around. Study participants listened to around 50 audio clips of various types of laughter, such as open- versus closed-mouthed chuckles, and rated the female belly laugh as the most pleasurable.
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