I recently watched an old Doris Day movie about a doctor whose wife becomes a TV advertising star. And I couldn’t help feeling that the whole problem was that the characters never had an open discussion and never asked the right questions. And that’s fine, if people did that at the beginning of the storyContinue reading “A critique of “The Thrill of it All””
Tag Archives: marriage
Why fear differences?
People today, for all their talk of equity, inclusion, and diversity seem to be doing so because they’re actually terrified that there might be real, substantive differences between people. Much as the European reaction to nationalistic fears in the postwar period led to a drive toward the dissolution of borders and differences of nationality inContinue reading “Why fear differences?”
Surviving the past and present through sex
One not well-understood way that men and women differ from one another is in their strategies for filling and defining roles. It is often noted that women occupy the great stable middle of social and personal distributions, while men occupy a larger portion of the extremes, both at the top and at the bottom. SoContinue reading “Surviving the past and present through sex”
Are women better than men?
Are women better than men? That is certainly a question that seems to have some teeth. Men can be and are blamed for a lot of the pain in the world. And it’s not unusual to see the world and history characterized as innocent women and children trying to live their lives and wicked menContinue reading “Are women better than men?”
Way way way too much, on the subject of why I care about swimsuits
I was curious to study my own behavior and answer: “Why go to the effort of buying swimsuits for my wife?” In an objective sense, it’s completely unnecessary and unimportant. So why even expend the effort? Well, I think it must just be one of those things that, while not really important in any sense,Continue reading ” Way way way too much, on the subject of why I care about swimsuits”
Making Nobody Happy 