Culture
Lady Liquor: The rise of the cocktail and the feminization of drink
As for the consumption of spirits per se, it’s true that cocktails became more popular in the 1920s than they had in previous years, and both men and women drank cocktails enthusiastically. In fact, historian Catherine Gilbert Murdock, in her phenomenal book Domesticating Drink, argues that... Read more »
Daddy Issues: How Surprise Single Fatherhood Makes Men's Lives Worth Living
The idea that fatherhood redeems men, turning them into proper grown-ups (and thus acceptable members of society) is an enduring pop cultural preoccupation.
In Three Men and A Baby, the... Read more »
BitchTapes: Who's Hungry? (Part III)
For Part III of Who's Hungry?, we're serving up a proper five-course feast. Get ready to dig in as we present some of the best food songs out there.
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Daddy Issues: Blossom and the Trouble with
Brainy, outspoken, and with a fashion sense all her own, Blossom modeled confidence (and oh, so many hats) for a generation of teenage girls.
Along with unquashable self-esteem, she also possessed that mixed... Read more »
Lady Liquor: Beer-Loving Ladies - Rare, or Just Overlooked?
I’ve always been perplexed by the stereotype that women just don’t like beer very much. The stat I hear most often – which I quoted in my post about... Read more »
Co-opting the Coop: What's the real cost of homesteading's new hipness?
The last several years have seen an explosion in urban homesteading. According to the American Community Gardening Association, there are currently more than 18,000 community gardens throughout the United States and Canada.
This figure alone speaks to the number of people interested in moving... Read more »
Game Changer: Why Gaming Culture Allows Abuse... and How We Can Stop It
You're a Bolshevik feminist jewess that hates white people… and you expect to be taken seriously when you're “critique-ing” video games? Fucking ovendodger.
Like water through a bursting dam, the deluge came first in pinprick spouts and then rushed through in a pitiless... Read more »
Lady Liquor: Race, marketing and uneasy relationships
It doesn’t surprise me that Snoop took the opportunity to engage in a little product placement, though he’s also joked about pot brownies on Martha’s show. What’s more... Read more »
Pumped Up Kids: New report shows adolescents hit the gym (and the steroids) in search of muscles
According to a New York Times piece from earlier this week, teens still work... Read more »
Lady Liquor: Drinking Diaries and Women's Self-Judgment
At least half – if not two-thirds – of the essays in Drinking Diaries (a newly published book spawned by the blog of the same name) are downers. That stands to reason: alcohol is a... Read more »
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