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Saturday, June 6, 2009 12:00 AM

Slipped through the cracks

A man goes through menopause. Plus: the health benefits of a May-December marriage, feminist spanking and more.

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Friday, June 5, 2009 06:27 PM

Empowered spankees

A woman who likes to be spanked until her soft, quivering buttocks are flushed and stinging is an empowered woman.

Friday, June 5, 2009 06:41 PM

This column makes me want to

Get a tranny hooker

Friday, June 5, 2009 07:20 PM

On the May-December Thing

Once again, repeat after me: correlation is not causation.

Maybe youthful (but not young) virile healthy men are better at attracting much younger women. They live longer because they live longer, and attracting younger women is just a byproduct.

On the other end, maybe being willing to marry a man about a decade or younger than yourself is simply an indication of current or impending really poor self-esteem and depression, neither of which is good for your health.

On the other hand, perhaps there is a magic emanation from a woman younger than yourself that keeps you healthy, whereas old or too young men have bad karma or something. Poor Demi. But who knows?

Friday, June 5, 2009 07:46 PM

That's *Dana Jennings* in the Well Blog, not Dana Stevens

Putting the "men" in menopause: In the New York Times' Well Blog, Dana Stevens chronicled the hot flashes, junk food cravings and subsequent weight gain that came along with his hormone therapy to treat prostate cancer.

Dana Stevens is a (female) film critic for Slate.

Friday, June 5, 2009 08:15 PM

uh oh

I'm 8 years older than my husband. We are so screwed.

Friday, June 5, 2009 08:53 PM

@C-Bob

"On the other hand, perhaps there is a magic emanation from a woman younger than yourself that keeps you healthy"

In a previous column, we already learned about emanations from all men that keep women's faces soft and wrinkle-free..

Friday, June 5, 2009 11:22 PM

real girls and " women's " TV channels

Where are all the real girls? Great question to ask, as when a woman watches Lifetime, WE, or any of those ' women- focused' channels; one has to be convinced that so many woman are gold diggers and victim " feminists" always in danger of the big bad man-wolf stalking them. that or looking for Mr. Executive, Clean Cut Eligible Prince. But, and this I often wonder as a transwoman whom has to fear men 10 times more then any biological woman does; when it comes to women's behavior in general; " What is real? and what is memorex?"

True, those shows on WE, lifetime,the fashion channel, specifically shows like " Girls behaving badly" and " What not to wear"; are truly a fucking joke! I mean what is wrong with being a woman and behaving " badly"? or wearing whatever the fuck YOU feel comfortable wearing instead of what feminine

" virtue" says is " age/occasion, etc. appropriate"??

I mean if there is one thing besides everything else I really love about butch lesbian women like Ellen De Generes, it is the ability to be yourself, sit with your legs apart if that is more comfortable to you as a woman; just to be who you are and not some " fembot" , victim-minded Barbie Fucking Doll!

Saturday, June 6, 2009 07:18 AM

More social conditioning in a bad way

I am not pleased with our co-opted media trying to get us to accept sexual violence in the bedroom.

Saturday, June 6, 2009 07:32 AM

How does Jessica Wakeman reconcile her "feminist sensibilities"...

...with sleeping with a guy that already has a girlfriend? From the linked article:

Fast forward a few years, and a few sexually unfulfilling relationships, to Charles, the first guy who made me feel like there wasn’t anything wrong or un-feminist about wanting to be spanked. I’d known Charles for years, so he knew about my feminist activism and the writing I do about women’s issues. Once Charles learned about my dom/sub fetish, he knew—and respected—how conflicted I felt. Charles wanted to spank a woman as badly as I wanted to be spanked, and that was what mattered to him. Plus, he’d struggled with apathetic partners, as I had, and he owned a paddle! Alas, Charles also had a girlfriend.

Not that that stopped us. No, we were selfish: Charles cheated on his girlfriend with me.

That's feminist?

Saturday, June 6, 2009 02:32 PM

@Roman Berry

Feminism is not a purity pledge, it is simply a statement about equality. You can be a rotten human being and do revolting things, and still be a feminist, as long as you do so with equality.

I was not aware that there was some feminist oath that required fidelity, any more than there is a communist or conservative oath that does.

Feminism does not equal the idea that being the Other Woman is OK. Nor does it mean the opposite. Apples and oranges, bub, apples and oranges.

Saturday, June 6, 2009 04:03 PM

Temperance seeds

...channels like Bravo and WE paint women as "weak, shallow, vain, stupid, gold-digging, desperate delusional bitches."

Add rigid, insecure, and excessively-controlling to the above mixture and you've defined the average temperance society. What's not to paint?

Saturday, June 6, 2009 05:47 PM

Jessica Wakeman

The Great Feminist Spanking Dilemma is one that many educated feminist women have gone through, and that article had insightful things to say about it. Props to Wakeman for writing it, especially since there are still plenty of people around who will insist a woman's sexual desires must be the product of "social conditioning" unless they meet some standard of ideological purity.

Saturday, June 6, 2009 08:54 PM

Spanking Feminists

I've spanked many feminists, and have fond recollections of their firm, quivering buttocks resounding sharply under my firm hand.

Some say feminist bottoms are the best to spank - feminists are grateful to let their guard down and be punished for being bad.

Their pink, flushed buttock cheeks are a reward in themselves.

Saturday, June 6, 2009 11:00 PM

The cheeky canvas

Some say feminist bottoms are the best to spank - feminists are grateful to let their guard down and be punished for being bad.

-- Parson Jim

Same with naughty nuns.

The Victorian Terror Weapon outperforms penta. A rigorous ass requires a rigorous tool.

Sunday, June 7, 2009 05:38 AM

@Canuckistan Bob

Who was talking about a purity pledge? Not me. I was talking about a woman proclaiming herself to be a feminist fucking over another woman by sleeping with her boyfriend.

I'm not a purity fanatic. Sex between consenting people is fine with me. No, what I'm bothered with is hypocrisy. And I'm also bothered by people who are in relationships cheating on their partner, and by the people that knowingly cheat with them. At any rate, women fucking over other women may not be unfeminist, but it strikes me as wrong none the less.

Sunday, June 7, 2009 06:05 AM

Grip some reality temperance

At any rate, women fucking over other women may not be unfeminist, but it strikes me as wrong none the less.

-- Roman Berry

*I'm thinking war is wrong. It happens large and messily ALL the time.

*I'm thinking white lies are wrong. These roll off ALL tongues by the hundreds of millions per minute at some point during any given day.

*I'm thinking self-delusion is wrong. Everyone is self-deluded to a large extent.

*I'm thinking eating way to much goddamn fast food food is wrong. The world is full of fat or artery-clogged beings.

*And so on...

Wrong happens CONSTANTLY and has since human inception.

If you think something is wrong don't do it and ESPECIALLY don't get near any human beings because these little fucks are designed to surprise.

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