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Who would sanction buying stuff like this for their sons (or brothers, or nephews, or whatever): "onesies with 'Chicks Dig Me' or 'Playground Pimp' (spelled out in
alphabet blocks) printed across the front; T-shirts that declare 'My
Mom Is a MILF,' 'All Daddy Wanted Was a Blowjob,' and 'Hung Like a
Five-Year Old.' Abercro...mbie & Fitch tees with slogans like 'Save a Cherry, Pop a Collar' and 'One Man’s Junk is Another Woman’s
Treasure.'"
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The raunch culture that’s inundating our boys from babyhood.
Lorien
Lorien
"Chicks dig me" is kind of cute, because hey, women like babies. I'd get that for a girl, too. Anything that references sex or genitalia, though, is pretty disgusting.
Yesterday at 3:39pm
Eric Poole
Eric Poole
Whenever my 6-year-old son gets banged up, I tell him Poole's Second Law -- "Chicks dig scars." Am I indoctrinating him into the raunch culture? But there's no way he's wearing a "My mom is a MILF" shirt. That's not just raunchy; it's creepy.
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Double X Christina Ianzito discusses why she's not opting in to her doctor's new concierge care:
http://www.doublex.com/section/health-science/ill-stick-long-waits

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Why I’m not taking my doctor up on her offer of concierge care.
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Double X Question of the Day: what's the weirdest/funniest thing your dad (or mom!) has uttered? http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor/everybody-loves-cantankerous-old-men

Tue at 3:14pm
Gant
Gant
well, since you mention "cantankerous old men," my grandpa and i were discussing politics one day and told me i had "sh*t for brains". he was serious but i thought it was funny.
Tue at 5:05pm
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These are all great! One of my mother's favorite threats when we were young was to claim we'd be "sold to the gypsies." Although incredibly insensitive and racist now, it worked wonders on my sister and me then!
Yesterday at 9:46am
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Double X New non complaining entry is up: in which we find the happiness experts lacking. What do you think of their advice? --Jessica

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Parsing the advice of positive psychologists.
Nicole
Nicole
You should look into behavior change theories that are used to develop public health interventions...they might inform your process. Also, when it comes to stopping whining, I'm a big fan of the "think before you speak and ask what is the point" method. It really helps me get through a particularly whiny moment.
Tue at 2:53pm
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HI Nicole, thanks for the tip! Are there any particular theories or experts that we should look up? -Jessica
Yesterday at 1:27pm
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Double X Hey former and current waiters and waitresses: You might wanna get in on this discussion about Bruce Buschel's obnoxious 100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do list.

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I stand by the notion that no minimum wage job should ever require a list of 100 Don'ts.
Caitlin E.
Caitlin E.
Wow – the comment by deechan on that piece is horrific. Someone has some anger issues...
Tue at 2:16pm
Eric Poole
Eric Poole
Bruce Buschel needs to work a couple of shifts as a waiter or a pizza driver. Then make a new list.
Tue at 2:24pm
Reece
Reece
Rules look good, though stringent. Always best to err on the side of caution.
Tue at 7:14pm
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Double X Cringe-worthy reading: the sexy e-mail chain between a married Cornell tech consultant and his co-worker/mistress, which he accidentally forwarded to the entire business school. Particularly hot if all caps, exclamation points in groups of 3-9, or emoticons turn you on.

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And he forwarded his adulterous e-mail chain to the entire Cornell business school.
Eric Poole
Eric Poole
Creepy, creepy, creepy!
Tue at 2:25pm
Oliver Cabana
Oliver Cabana
Cringe-worthy it was. At least, Gov. Sanford's emails was somewhat romantic; this just made me want to shower.
Yesterday at 4:00am
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Double X Non-Complaining project is still ongoing...new entry up tomorrow. In the meantime, take this Oxford Happiness Questionnaire. Hanna and I both took this so that we could figure out if complaining and happiness are mutually exclusive. Find out in the a.m. what my happiness score is. -Jessica

Source: www.meaningandhappiness.com
Survey to measure personal happiness developed by psychologists at Oxford University. Instructions included so you can take it on the web.
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Double X Can you really be a willing child bride, if you are conditioned from birth to believe that marrying an older, powerful man is the highest honor?

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Dispatch from the trial of polygamist Raymond Merril Jessop.
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Double X A study from the UK shows women with more kids are happier...do you buy this? I'm a little skeptical.

November 6 at 10:42am
Elizabeth Kelly
Elizabeth Kelly
Robin, i think happiness is like the oft-quoted standard for obscenity: you know it when you see it (and for the purposes of this discussion, experience it). As I believe you are saying, the circumstances that bring happiness about are different for everyone. It's just that the emotion we experience is alike. And perhaps, generally speaking, people are alike enough in some ways that what makes some of us happy could make others happy as well?
November 8 at 1:30pm
Rodney Williamson
Rodney Williamson
Call me 'Captain Obvious', but wouldn't the people who wanted more children be the people who had more children in the first place ?
November 8 at 5:03pm
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Double X Alison Buckholtz isn't telling her kids about the Fort Hood shooting: http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/why-i-won’t-tell-my-kids-about-fort-hood-shooting, are you?

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Abby Johnson said Planned Parenthood is focusing on abortions, not birth control. And then Planned Parenthood got a restraining order against her.
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Double X Are you addicted to internet cute? Lauren Bans discusses the "Perils of Cute-R-Net"
http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor/perils-cute-r-net

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In the December issue of Vanity Fair, Jim Windolf writes a fascinating piece on our addiction to cute.
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Double X We've all heard it before - women lose desire more than men do in long term relationships, but is it true? DoubleX and the Desire Lab are looking for your input! Has desire changed for you over the course of a long term relationship? Send responses to xxdesirelab@gmail.com!

November 5 at 12:14pm
Linus Chan
Linus Chan
I always thought that notion that women want or need more security in a relationship is pretty much hogwash based on outdated evolutionary ideas. Olivia Judson and her book, Dr. Tatiana's Sex Guide to all of creation make a compelling case that females of a species are just as likely to be unfaithful and "cheat" on their monogamous pairs as males.

Human desire itself is hard to explain at all, so trying to find a difference between men and women can become nearly impossible if we don't understand the base human component.

Any explanation shouldn't try to base themselves on notions of gender difference, but rather on sex differences. If there is a difference in desire, it is likely a function of how hormones of desire work in men and women. Testetorone has been seen as a major player, and there may be something to how it might interact differently with other hormones in the female body. ... Read More

Personal experience has been that libido only decreases when the relationship itself is no longer working or when external pressures, stress et cetera interfere.
November 5 at 2:01pm
Kim Diaz
Kim Diaz
I think that decreased desire due to lack of emotional connection and/or stress is accurate for both genders. If we look at a disproportionate loss of desire on the part of women in long-term heterosexual relationships in the context of modern American culture, however, what I have observed/experienced is that American women, esp. Gen X and ... Read Moremillenials, expect that their marriage/relationship is going to be an egalitarian, peer-based experience, whereas men of these generations (by and large, though there are exceptions) continue to have very traditional expectations of marriage -- but this discrepancy usually only becomes apparent once the relationship has moved into long-term/marital circumstances.

Could be an intresting aside though, that other recent studies indicate that men who ARE more egalitarian in child-rearing and spend more time with their families have a decline in testosterone. And that women, while ovulating, prefer high-testosterone "bad boys" but at all other times prefer more sensitive models?. Biologically, could this make some of their female counterparts in long-term relationships unconsciously seek out a more "manly man"?
November 5 at 2:35pm
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Double X Today's fun fact about polygamists: They're hoarders!

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Raymond Merril Jessop's trial shows the danger of hoarding.
Pallavi
Pallavi
"The Nazis, who eventually amassed 50 million pages detailing their crimes, were also thorough record keepers."

Really? Polygamy = Holocaust, Jeffs = Hitler, FLDS = Nazis?
November 5 at 12:07pm
Kim
Kim
I don't think the article was saying that FLDS = Nazis. The only clear equivalency the article makes is that both documented their crimes (it didn't necessarily say their crimes were equally bad). I think it's an interesting observation.
November 5 at 1:00pm
Pallavi
Pallavi
If it's just that both were "thorough records keepers," it's a pretty random observation that doesn't tie well into the rest of the article, the point of which seems to be that given the unwillingness of the victims of the crime in question (statutory rape) to testify against the defendant, these thorough records provide the evidence prosecutors ... Read Moreneed to prove their case. It would make more sense and come off as less Godwin-esque if there were some mention of how the Nazis' records were ultimately used against them (e.g. at the Nuremberg trials).
November 5 at 1:25pm
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Double X 40 years of Sesame Street! Any favorite Sesame moments? I still wander supermarket aisles mumbling "a loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick-er butter." And when I tracked down the song "Everybody Sleeps," it made me cry. Also still adore the Alligator King and his 7 sons... -SH

November 4 at 8:42am
Teresa
Teresa
I always loved Teeny Little Super Guy zipping around that kitchen in a plastic cup.
November 4 at 12:05pm
Kate
Kate
@SH: Thanks for sharing liking for Ernie's "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon." I always find that song very simple and moving at the same time - like the best children's books. Thanks also for posting a Sesame Street shout out. :-) It seems thoroughly worth celebrating on a bunch of levels.
November 4 at 9:42pm
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Double X Great piece today by Beth Schwartzapfel on judges forcing women to give birth in jail.

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Judges treat pregnant women like children.
Kim
Kim
This is a fantastic article. It really hits home and raises important questions about the rights of pregnant women.
October 28 at 8:28am
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Double X
There's a link between what these judges are doing and the paternalism in Justice Kennedy's opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart, the Supreme Court's decision allowing a ban on late-term (so-called partial birth) abortion to stand. Father Knows Best. --Emily
October 31 at 6:12am