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When you're defending nazi salutes, you're telling me that you're a nazi.
About Elon's Nazi salute, I'll again post this video, which shows Elon's salute side by side with the salute as…
The only thing a beggar provides you with is a blessing/karma, which has no economic value, although I would still…
Well, clearly at least one does. God knows Musk doesn’t have to work another day in his life and hasn’t…
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Category Archives: Gender and the Body
Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Do You Like Your Body 4 (More on the Expendability of the Foreskin)
When a good friend of mine who is not Jewish found out that her first child was going to be a boy, I asked her if she intended to have him circumcised. “Yup,” she answered, smiling. “Do you know how … Continue reading
Posted in Gender and the Body, Sex, Sexism hurts men
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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Do You Like Your Body 3 (Preliminary Notes On the Expendability of the Foreskin)
In 1834, Sylvester Graham—inventor of the cracker that continues to bear his name—published a book called A Lecture to Young Men, in which he warned that masturbation would transform a boy who practiced it regularly into: a wretched transgressor [who] … Continue reading
Posted in Gender and the Body
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Fragments of Evolving Manhood: Do You Like Your Body? Two Stories from my Teens and Early Twenties
What first attracted me to Maria was the way she had no reservations about saying she didn’t like Walt Whitman’s poetry, even though our freshman-year professor in Introduction to American Literature had made Whitman’s work central to the course. When … Continue reading
Posted in Gender and the Body
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Fragments from Evolving Manhood: A Full-Throated Protest Against Existence and the World
I have written before about the book of personal essays dealing with manhood, masculinity and male sexuality that I tried, unsuccessfully (even with the help of an agent) to get published in the 1980s. Evolving Manhood was the working title, … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Gender and the Body, Jews and Judaism
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Reader, I Married Her
Tony Judt, a well-known historian, has written an engaging essay called “Girls! Girls! Girls!” for NYRBlog, The New York Review of Books blog, about how our stance towards sexual behavior on (and, by implication, off) campus has changed over the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Feminism, sexism, etc, Gender and the Body, Sex
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Please workplace tell me how I should eat
The Victoria University staff club is strange in many ways. It is tucked away in the library, undergrads aren’t supposed to go there, and know very little about it. But, despite the secrecy, it is very unexciting – except the … Continue reading
Posted in Fat, fat and more fat, Gender and the Body
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It's not OK
I’m not really interested in writing much about American politics. Partly because if I’m going to do day-to-day political stuff there’s so much to write about in New Zealand.* But mostly because I find it even more alienating than I … Continue reading
A New Covenant
Because we have discussed male infant circumcision on this blog before, a poem in progress: They say it’s a shame we didn’t do it when we should have, that probably you’ll need it later in life, when it’s more complicated, … Continue reading
Posted in Gender and the Body, Jews and Judaism, literature
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I Know I've Had Orgasms That Changed Me
A friend of mine who does not like jazz–especially anything that has a saxophone in it–told me once about a conversation she and her ex-husband, a serious jazz-lover, had over dinner with a couple, the male half of which also … Continue reading
Posted in Gender and the Body, Sex
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Tangentially related: --they wouldn’t do that, unless they were extras in a company of The Sound of Music. --FAKE NEWS!…