That study was discredited. Male pattern baldness can be passed through either parent.

There are problems with studying lesbians, and female sexuality in general. 1) It's much easier to objectively measure male sexual arousal than female (you just measure blood flow to the penis) 2) Female sexual arousal is a (wonderful!) biological accident, caused by early fetal development being unisex. Most other…

I have to say, as a gay man, I'm uncomfortable with the whole "it's not a choice" rhetoric. It makes me feel like I have to justify myself to heterosexuals, have to explain why I am the way I am. What does it matter why I'm gay? Why is it less wrong if I didn't choose it?

She first came to my attention in Private Practice (forgive me, I am but a wee babygay). I thought she was mediocre.

Yiddish for "Grandmother"

This headline is misleading. She used a walking desk while working from home. I'm not saying her behavior is normal, or that she does or doesn't have an eating disorder, but using a walking desk to stay moderately active throughout the day isn't unheard of.

I was teasing :) Sorry.

Enormous guys in LA used to getting lots of attention and pedicures?

My favorite is apologists saying "innocent until proven guilty!" and "beyond a reasonable doubt!"

When I was in high school, I had one recurring dream. It happened every May like clockwork.

I used to have nightmares about driving before I learned how to drive. I have never had a single one since I got my license.

One of the issues is also scientific. Women have natural periods of infertility in pregancy. Female hormonal birth control simply simulates that on command. Men don't have a corresponding period of natural infertility to draw on. Plus the fact that women drop one egg a month and men make sperm constantly, their entire…

I think it's just about extra layers of security. It reminds me of an article I read about HIV stigma, basically saying that the question "Are you clean?" is useless, because if you're basing any part of your sexual behavior on a stranger's answer to that question, you're worse than stupid.

I think the thing most people are missing is not that his ancestors did something awful. It's that he is directly benefiting, through his wealth and connections, from his ancestors owning slaves. It's a microsm of the larger problem. A lot of racist apologists think that slavery is in the past. But the effects of…

I think they were Complicated-with-a-capital-C for a while, and now they're just friends. If I remember my Office gossip.

I'm in the process of reading The Macho Paradox, and it's really eye-opening. Katz (the author) does a really good job of explaining how violence is a male problem. By making it a women's issue and the perpetrators as damaged individuals rather than symptoms of a larger cultural force, we shove the task of stopping…

I used to play that with my girl-cousins at my grandparents' house!

You do what you need to do. Get mad if you need to get mad. But it doesn't make you better than anyone else. And certainly don't kid yourself that you're helping the larger cause in any way other than making yourself feel better for 30 seconds.

Intelligent people control their anger when expressing that anger is likely to harm them and their cause.

It's not tone policing to discuss tone in an article about loving challenges to racists. I'm not arguing for passivity or silencing or suppressing of all emotion. Just one: directed anger. And even if the person you're talking to is a lost cause, his silent friend next to him might not be, and you just taught him that…