“Jeepers! A Dame — And she’s been croaked!” – Seriously… there’s totally a reason I used this picture here.A while back someone, I don’t remember who, asked me how I could possibly be an academic, let alone an English teacher, given the way I write — the topics, the humor (or…
Academics, Gender & Sex
The Power of the Penis
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I’m a red-blooded heterosexual American male. As such, it turns out that I enjoy seeing sexy women in their underwear. I am not ashamed to admit this. Women in their underwear kick ass. I am decidedly pro-lingerie! Yeah, I know… not exactly a controversial statement to make. But really my point is, for all of…
Academics, Gender & Sex
on Sex Statistics and Porn Percentages…
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Because my job is better than your job, I spent all day reading about sex and looking at porn. Awesome huh? Ok, So I’m currently reading Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacida Jetha. It’s an anthropological history on sexuality, monogamy and non-monogamy… because my job is awesome. Anyway, they’re talking about human male predisposition to enticement…
Gender & Sex, Movies
Holes in the Sky… and the plot (a very late Ghostbusters review)
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Comics, Movies
The Logan Supremacy…. (no spoilers)
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I’ve kind of gotten sidetracked away from doing movie reviews for a bit here. Sorry about that. I’m still not quite sure if anyone cares. People say they want my take, but it always feels like there’s far more people interested in my political stuff. Anyway, I’ve been meaning to write one for Split for…
Academics, Gender & Sex, Movies
Social Experiment: 50 Shades of Science
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Politics, TV
Punk’d Presidential Edition
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Academics, Gender & Sex, Politics, Race & Class
All Facts are Alternative (some are more alternative than others)
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Politics, Pop culture
Football > Politics
by mav • • 10 Comments
I often like to say that in current social media landscape, politics is basically just football. The specific policies and actions don’t matter anymore. You pick your team and you stick to it and anyone that opposes your team is automatically an asshole and anyone who is for your team is automatically good. Logic doesn’t matter and…
Gender & Sex, Movies, Race & Class
Hidden Figures, Visible Baiting: The game of imitation in Hollywood biopics.
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Pop culture
Introducing Mav’s Really Depressing Celebrity Dead Pool – 2017!
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So for the last several months, I’ve been watching people get al upset at “2016 having killed yet another celebrity!” Towards the end of the year, I started joking that it was “really going to suck, when people started realizing that celebrities are going to die in 2017 too.” There’s lot of questions as to whether…
Gender & Sex, Movies
Stockholm in Space: A Passengers Review
by mav • • 8 Comments
Merry Christmas everyone. And what would Christmas be without a gift of a movie review from me? Well, honestly, it would pretty much just be Christmas. I don’t even know that i’ve ever written a movie review for Christmas before. But whatever. Steph and I saw Passengers on Christmas Eve, so I’m doing it. Before I…