As some of you may know, I worked in restaurants and bars for years. My very first research article was about doing conventional gender as a tool of resistance in corporate restaurant settings. In fact, one could say I paid for my PhD with pizza, beer, and miles (and miles
I recently came across this op-ed piece on MetalInjection.com – “The Problem With Heavy Metal Is Metalheads: Stop Calling Everyone A Faggot” (10/22/14, here). In the article, author Shayne Mathis makes a very simple point, one that I’m surprised still needs to be made at all: Stop using words like
I recently received an interesting query from AVN, one of the foremost adult industry trade and news organizations. The team at AVN was getting into the New Year’s spirit, pondering their resolutions for 2015. They correctly assumed that they were not alone in their reflecting, so they put out a
It’s 2015 – welcome to the new year, darlings! I am incredibly excited, both in general and for this new year specifically. A lot of exciting developments are soon-to-be-revealed, and I have many new adventures on the horizon! All my best to each of you. May we all have the
Autism, both what it is and what causes it, is something a lot of people don’t understand, including me. I recently came across this article “MIT Researcher’s New Warning: At Today’s Rate, Half Of All U.S. Children Will Be Autistic By 2025” (10/28/14, here), and I was more than a
Ok, so as we know I recently purchased two Puppy Surpises, both in the Zoey model, for two lucky little girls I know (here). The girls had communicated their desire for Puppy Surprise via a letter to Santa. But this update is not about the elaborate ruse I concocted to
Dr. Chauntelle’s Note: Some of you asked why my dislike of “Girls” (a la my Hot Holiday Gift Guide). Here’s some of why… As some of you may know, the idea of authenticity – of realness and fakeness, what (allegedly) constitutes what, and everything in between – both compels and
Two little girls I know may be (read: are each) getting one of these from Santa this year. And while I get the innocence of children and we adults ruin everything while constantly yammering on and on about how we’re damaging and/or programing girls (because most toys are still very
I wrote this essay in October, 2014 about a new product making the media rounds – The Handie. And now, for your reading pleasure, I present you with the handiest essay about dudes masturbating and why we should slow our proverbial roll when it comes to this (admittedly odd looking)
I’m totally paraphrasing (read: butchering) here, but my favorite thinker ever – Michel Foucault – was known to hold the sentiment: Knowledge isn’t power, language is. Thus, whoever is able to use or engage some form of language has some measure power. Whoever can make the call re. what language