Alice Rossi
My friend and colleague Alice Schaerr Rossi, a co-founder of the National Organization for Women and one of the leading sociologists of her generation, died on November 3 at age 87. For a few years in...
View ArticleSex Differences in…Sex
Note: By invitation, I’ve started a blog on the Psychology Today website, and my latest post can be read there or here, although different (and likely more numerous) comments will be posted there....
View ArticleWife-Wooing*
It’s easier when you remember that it’s about love. A posting by Psychology Today blogger Anita Kelly produced a lively discussion (including some prudish comments on masturbation). The basic idea was...
View ArticleIs Misogyny Maladaptive?
Part of my friend’s question that I didn’t answer last time was about misogyny, which he hopefully speculated is now maladaptive. I deferred this because from an evolutionary viewpoint it is in a...
View ArticleWomen After All
Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy Published by W. W. Norton & Company, March 9, 2015 “This beautifully written, exquisitely conceived book should provoke spirited debate among all...
View ArticleBlowback
My new book—Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy, published by Norton on March 9th—has produced some highly predictable, in fact predicted, reactions. I’d written on p. 17,...
View ArticleBlowback 2
I said in my last posting that I expected Women After All to offend four groups. The biggest and most vulgar response has been from the “men’s rights” movement—really Quavering Male Chauvinists (QMCs)...
View ArticleCharles Darwin’s Happy Birthday
As we mark Charles Darwin’s birthday on February 12th, our culture is riding a wave that should take us back to his theory. The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements are the crest of the wave, which may...
View ArticleThe Day After
Note: This appeared as one of my contributions last week to a private email group including a number of lawyers. Three of them, including a retired Democratic Congressional Representative, endorsed my...
View ArticleSick Man, Sick Land
“All of the information medical professionals want to know, all the things that are happening, vital signs, what his clinical exam looks like, what does he look like as a patient, are we...
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