Tag Archives: women

A New Age of Female Masturbation

Posted on December 10, 2008 by Lee

Lesbian feminist Lily Tomlin once joked that the only reason cretinous men walked upright was to free their hands for masturbation. Fair enough, but the posture of the lady might soon lack for any better purpose. According to a new … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, social science | Tagged Britain, British women, cheeseburgers, Constitution, Feminism, gender, lesbian feminist, Lily Tomlin, masturbation, Media, poll, self-restraint, sex, sexualized, social conservative, study, survey, women | 2 Comments

A Solution to the Financial Crisis? Sharia!

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Lee

Italian economist Loretta Napoleoni (of Rogue Economics fame), blames the lingering financial crisis in part on the American War on Terrorism, which inaugurated an allegedly “suspicious attitude…toward Muslim investors.” She goes further though, and argues that the only solution to … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics | Tagged academia, academics, bankers, banking, case studies, clients, despotism, dictatorship, Economics, finance, financial crisis, gendr, home loans, islam, Islamic finance, Italian, Loretta Napoleoni, married women, marxism, Marxist, medieval, militarims, Muslim, North Korea, property rights, rogue economics, scholars, sharia, social responsibility, Somalia, Soviet Union, UNM, Vermont, War on Terrorism, women | 2 Comments

Malaysia’s War on Tomboys

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Lee

Malaysia’s National Fatwa Council issued a warning to human rights groups yesterday that should they criticize its efforts to repress “tomboy behaviour” among Malaysian women, it could result in…further repression. One has to marvel at this sort of thinking. How … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, Religion and theology | Tagged human rights, islam, lesbianism, Malaysia, Malaysian women, National Fatwa Council, repression, tomboy behavior, tomboys, women | Leave a comment

Scars Are Sexy

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Lee

According to research conducted in the UK, women find men with facial scars more physically attractive, if the scar appears to be the result of violence. Unfortunately it may be a brief affair for the scarred, as some theories suggest … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged attraction, facial scars, masculinity, men, personality types, relationships, research, scars, sex, UK, violence, women | Leave a comment

Cocktail Politics, Rio Rancho Office Space and Truman Republicans

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Lee

It occurs to me that the sequence of cocktails is the best political indicator I know of on election night. In 2004 I was attending a Democratic election party and early on everyone was drinking wine and martinis in stemware, … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008 | Tagged 1948, advertising, Albuquerque, ALF-CIO, barber, bourbon, bumpersticker, Bush, campaign, chess, cocktails, congress, Democrats, Domestic Politics, election 2004, election night, exit polls, girls, harry truman, high desert, John Kerry, Karl Rove, martinis, McCain, mobilization, New Mexico, Obama, party, patron saint, poll, Rasmussen, Rio Rancho, Sandoval, Sandoval County, scotch, Scott Rasmussen, secular, special interests, strip mall, suburban, Truman Republicans, whiskey, women | 2 Comments

Playmates during crisis

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Lance

Does the object of our desire tend to change during tough times? Yes, according to this paper on men’s preferences when it comes to Playboy’s models: Consistent with Environmental Security Hypothesis predictions, when social and economic conditions were difficult, older, … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Lance's Page, social science | Tagged 2008, beauty, body mass, breasts, bust-to-waist ratio, conditional economics, credit crisis, Economics, Environmental Security Hypothesis, facial features, gender, index values, Jayde Nicole, Playboy, playmates, pornography, reproduction, sex, social dynamics, Tyler Cowen, women | Leave a comment

Palinmania Snippets

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Lee

Like so many others, Elizabeth Johnson is out for that Palin look. Sarah always has such choice footwear…and eyewear retailers are getting explicit in their advertising. In case you were curious, this is where you end up when your anti-Palin … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged advertising, Alaska, childhood, Elizabeth Johnson, eyewear, fashion, glasses, hysteria, ideology, Palin, Palinmania, political indoctrication, Sarah Palin, style, women | Leave a comment

The Palin Democrats

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Lee

Tim Reid travels to Mount Clemens, Macomb County Michigan, to talk to white working class female voters. Macomb County should be core Democratic blue country, but it was here that Stanley Greenberg first identified the “Reagan Democrats” of the 1980s, … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008 | Tagged 1988, Democrat, demographics, election, Macomb County, McCain, Michigan, Obama, Palin, Palin Democrats, Reagan Democrats, Republican, Sarah Palin, Stanley Greenberg, The Times, Tim Reid, women | 1 Comment

NOW and Then

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Lee

Ken Davenport has a brutal piece in TWS this morning on the frankly rather embarrassing opposition of the National Organization of Women to Sarah Palin’s candidacy. It still astonishes me to no end that an organization which would be splendidly … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged democratic, Democratic Party, demographics, Kenneth G. Davenport, leftist, National Organization of Women, NOW, Palin, partisans, Sarah Palin, The Weekly Standard, TWS, women | 1 Comment

Blog Graphics Retrospective

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Lee

I was searching for an image on my backup drive today and came across a cache of header graphics I’d thrown together for posts over the years. The diversity of subjects was kind of interesting as a gallery. Here’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Lee's Page, Uncategorized | Tagged Al Askari, allegory, Barack Obama, blog, China, congress, ecuador, Eurabia, George Alec Effinger, graphics, green party, Gun Smuggling, Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow, headers, Hillary Clinton, HIV, Hugo Chavez, Iraq, islam, John McCain, larry craig, Muqtada al-Sadr, National Defense, Rafael Correa, Red Army Faction, Richard Dawkins, Robert Mugabe, Samarra, Saudi Arabia, Silvio Berlusconi, Slobodan Milošević, Vaclav Havel, women, Zimbabwe | 3 Comments

Palin Poll

Posted on August 30, 2008 by Lee

Rasmussen’s first Palin poll suggests that while many Americans still need more information to make a judgment, she’s already made a superior impression to Biden on the day of his selection by Obama. Of enormous significance is the finding that … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008 | Tagged Americans, Biden, election, Joe Biden, Obama, Palin, poll, Rasmussen, rating, Republican, Sarah Palin, veep, vice president, vp, women | 24 Comments

The Rise of the Governess

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Lee

Way back in February 2007, when I was still writing for postpolitical, an obscure little blog popped up pitching Sarah Palin for the Vice Presidency. At the time few were that familiar with Sarah’s record or wise enough to predict … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Lee's Page | Tagged 2008, 2012, conservatives, GOP, McCain, Mom, Palin, PTA, Republican, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, suffrage, veep, vice president, vp, women | Leave a comment

Saris too Sexy for Nigeria

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Lee

Indian women may soon face imprisonment for wearing their traditional saris in Nigeria. The mid-riff exposing garments have run afoul of Muslim conservatives as being too sexually provocative. There are estimated to be about 25,000 Indians living in Nigeria, primarily … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged conservatives, dress, garments, imprisonment, India, Indian, Muslim, Nigeria, opinions, saris, western, women | 1 Comment

To Have and Withhold

Posted on August 3, 2008 by Lee

The National Women’s Committee of the Yemeni government is finally calling for an end to child brides. Their proposal is to reset the minimum marriage age at 18. The official legal age for marriage is 15 in Yemen, but loopholes … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged age, child bride, government, National Women’s Committee, religious police, s, Saudi Arabia, women, Yemen | Leave a comment

Chicks Are Cool, ‘Long As They Know Their Place

Posted on May 2, 2008 by Joshua Foust

Only in America’s Army: KHOST, Afghanistan — Pfc. Monica Brown cracked open the door of her Humvee outside a remote village in eastern Afghanistan to the pop of bullets shot by Taliban fighters. But instead of taking cover, the 18-year-old … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Military Matters, Society | Tagged DADT, military, women, WTFBBQ | 7 Comments

Let’s Talk About Chicks, Man

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Joshua Foust

A few weeks ago, my friend Megan Carpentier wondered on Glamocracy why there aren’t more prominent female political bloggers out there: But does it have to be that way? Blogs are supposed to be populist and thus it would seem … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Media | Tagged bloggers, blogosphere, sexism, women | 10 Comments

Sex Change Anyone?

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Peg

After reading this, boy; do I want to disown being a woman or what? (Warning; do have an air sickness bag nearby prior to clicking on the link!) Looking at the choices, we began, by rote, to reach up toward … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, Peg's Page | Tagged Election 2008, Feminism, Hillary Clinton, women | 1 Comment

Too Bootylicious for Your Jeans?

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Lee

Fiorana is a new company that is manufacturing blue jeans specially made to accommodate a certain widely admired latina asset. According president Mike Braden, “The Latina body is different in waist and hip structure. When wearing Anglo cut jeans, there … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged advertising, anglo, blue jeans, business, ethnic, fashion, Fiorana, hispanic, latina, marketing, Mike Braden, women | 3 Comments

Love in a Foreign War

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Lee

(photo: trish brunner | blog) This morning I stumbled into the story from last year of James and Lena Ahearn. James, the American officer, Lena the Iraqi woman who was apparently the first war bride in Iraq in 2003. They’d … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Culture, Lee's Page, Military Matters | Tagged , American, Baghdad, Green Zone, interracial marriage, Iraq, James Michael Ahearn, James Michener, Lena Ahearn, love, lovers, married, novel, Tales of the South Pacific, war, women | Leave a comment

The Feminization of Men Produces Lesbianism?

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Lee

Actress Sharon Stone says she’s disgusted by feminized modern men, and thus has turned to masculine women: “Now men act like women and it is difficult to have a relationship because I like men in that old-fashioned way. I like … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged California, celebrities, feminization, Hollywood, lesbian, masculinity, men, relationships, Sharon Stone, women | Leave a comment

Islamic Pornography

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Lee

Very, very, very safe for work.

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged eyes, islam, pornography, veils, women | 2 Comments

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