The XX Factor : men

Women More Likely to Follow Men on Twitter

Jessica Grose — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:29:00 GMT

In the wider world, Oprah Winfrey is vastly more influential than Ashton Kutcher. But Ashton trumps Oprah in the male-dominated Twitter-verse, where men have 15 percent more followers than women do. New research from Harvard Business School has shown...(read more)

What Makes a Man

Susannah Breslin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Esquire is running a series of pieces that revolve around the idea of what it means to be a man. While others here took issue with another feature in the magazine, the cover story, " What Is a Man? ," a rather ham-fisted take on what supposedly makes...(read more)

Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream

Susannah Breslin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Reading " Bikinis Make Men See Women as Objects, Scans Confirm ," I had to laugh. Princeton psychology professor Susan Fiske used an MRI to scan the brains of men as they were shown a variety of images: clothed and unclothed women and men. Upon eyeballing...(read more)

Are YOU Having an Affair?

Hanna Rosin — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:13:00 GMT

Well, if you're not, go to the playground and look around. One of the three married mommies innocently trailing their little tyke is cheating, according to a new " Sex and the American Mom " survey conducted by Cookie magazine and AOL Body and apparently...(read more)

The Bad-Boy Image

Ann Hulbert — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:24:00 GMT

Speaking of overshadowed men, and going back Hanna’s interest in pols who don’t cheat, I’d been wondering today whether Obama was perhaps squirming a little, and his staffers might be casting about for a way to cultivate at least a bit of a bad boy image....(read more)

The Great White Divide

Emily Bazelon — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:30:00 GMT

After Super Tuesday, Slate 's William Saletan pointed out that Obama had made serious inroads with white voters, passing the 40 percent mark in eight Super Tuesday states. From last week's elections, add Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia....(read more)

The Snip Series: Reprised for Valentine's Day

Emily Bazelon — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:14:00 GMT

A couple of years ago, for reasons that I can't remember, if they ever existed, I decided to do an unscientific research project on circumcision. I asked men who'd been circumcised as adults and experienced sex both ways, to write in about which they...(read more)