All posts tagged "Husband"

Sexual attraction can be fickle. One minute you’re turned on by the mysterious allure of a new crush, and the next minute that same fire is extinguished by a variety of possible turnoffs.

Millennials get a lot of heat for being irresponsible and self-absorbed, which always cracks me up when they're simultaneously questioned (sometimes berated) for deciding against having children.

I posted at XX Factor about this website where women set out to shame "homewreckers", i.e. women who slept with or even "stole" boyfriends or husbands who presumably had a monogamous commitment to another woman. It's a brief post that doesn't mention the blog of the woman---titled I'm In Love With A Serial Cheater---who started this shaming site, but I ended up reading many blog posts from it because, to be frank, the experience of being a woman who has completely absconded any personal dignity and is so devoted to even the most grotesque sexism is really alien to me. I began to almost feel sorry for the blogger, whose shitbag of a husband is clearly enjoying the hell out of having his wife and his mistress fight relentlessly over him. The only thing he has to do for the pleasure is occasionally pretend to be mildly sorry, but honestly not even that, because the blogger is 100% clear that she believes that he has no choice but to fuck a woman who offers. It's mind-boggling and distressing to realize how many women have completely bought into the notion that a man's only as good as his options.

Dear Tiero,

The Austin-American Statesman had a profile of Protestants who, unsatisfied with the overly pro-woman ways of mainstream Protestantism* have decided to embrace the Catholic view of birth control. That is, to not use it, because if women's lives aren't fraught with fear of getting pregnant, then they are getting away with something.** It's an okay story---it's good to see the mainstream media give some coverage to how anti-woman evangelicals are turning on birth control---but they could have gone a step further and explained that for the activist branch of the religious right, female submission is seen as something that the law should mandate for all women, regardless of religion, by banning birth control.