Archive | August, 2012

The Anti-choice movement – Pro-Birth and the Fear of the Single Woman

I honestly don’t know if it is possible to debate this subject in a logical way.  For every argument the pro-choice side throws up the pro-life side throws up a photo of a mangled fetus or an ultrasound, then the pro-choice side points to images of dead women and butchered reproductive organs.  Obviously it is […]

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Rihanna get a grip! Another reason why I LOVE Joan Rivers!

So this is just going to be a rant and I don’t apologize for it.  Comedians have had it rough lately as it seems every joke we say on stage gets taken out of comedy clubs and dissected in the media.  Sometimes I agree with the media scrutiny of a joke in poor taste such […]

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Life as Straight Spouse: Living with the Scarlet G

In the American classic  ”The Scarlet Letter” Nathanial Hawthorne wrote about Hester Prynne, a woman who conceived a daughter through an adulterous affair with a minister.  Her community, in 17th century Massachusetts, forces her to wear a red-letter “A” upon all of her clothing as a constant reminder of her transgression, and to publicly humiliate her. […]

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The Pro-Life Fringe: Where Todd Akin gets his insane ideas.

I have had several requests from my regulars to blog about Missouri senatorial candidate Todd Akin‘s remarks about rape. “It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare,”  “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe […]

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Dating in NYC: The Cool Detachment

Since my divorce, I can’t seem to do anything right when it comes to dating.  I try to hard, I don’t try hard enough, I go out too much I stay inside my apartment for days on end, it doesn’t seem to matter.   I have read multiple books on dating, even ones on male […]

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A Loving Couple: What Gay Marriage Really Looks Like

So any regular readers of this blog already know, I am a straight spouse.  A straight spouse is a person who married someone who they thought was straight only to find out years later that their partner was actually secretly gay.   My marriage was smoke and mirrors of lies, deception and ultimately betrayal.  From the […]

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