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Morning names: wiles, Wiles
Sunday’s morning name was the common noun wiles, but that led me to the adjective wily, the proper name Wile E. Coyote, and to people with the family name Wiles, in particular the mathematician Andrew...
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Loving couples
Two things that came to my attention over this holiday (Valentine’s and Presidents Day) weekend, both involving same-sex couples: a piece on two men who are a couple (an engaged couple, in fact), Tom...
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Bad bro days
The story of the address term bro in relatively recent years begins with its use by black men to black men, roughly (but not exactly) like the widely used American buddy — a term of male affiliation....
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Anti-spam architect (plus a mathemagician)
The anti-spam architect would be Elizabeth Zwicky in a “Yahoo Women in Technology Profile” by Michael McGovern (Talent Community Manager at Yahoo!) on the 18th. The piece is in the form of an...
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Pleasures of patriotic penetration
(Well, dildos and vibrators, so not for everybody.) Passed on by Jeff Shaumeyer on Facebook, a startling sex toy, from the BlogRebellen website yesterday: (#1) Fühl den Nationalstolz tief in dir mit...
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xkcd mansplaining
Yesterday‘s xkcd, “Time Travel Thesis”: A man’s gotta explain what a man’s gotta explain. (Hat tip to Chris Waigl.) Earlier on this blog: from 9/20/14, “Two from Out”, on straightsplaining and...
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November 11th, 2014
… was a banner day for cartoons in the New Yorker. Waiting a few minutes to get called in for routine blood tests at the Palo Alo Medical Foundation this morning, I chanced upon this particular issue...
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Color-coordinating college
Yesterday’s Zits: Some other orange schools: Florida, Princeton, Univ. of Miami, Oregon State, Idaho State, Oklahoma State. There’s also a bunch of schools with gold — but that’s yellow-orange, not...
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Language Sunday in the comics
Four in my comics feed Sunday morning: a One Big Happy with the derived adjective quotatious; a Zippy on pangrams; a Mother Goose and Grimm with an ambiguity in marine biologist; and a Doonesbury...
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Women’s jobs, men’s jobs, feminine language, masculine language
Another item from my blog backlog, this time a 2/17 piece by Claire Cain Miller in the NYT, (in print) “Job Disconnect: Male Applicants, Feminine Language”, (on-line) “Job Listings That Are Too...
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Annals of interruption
Some well-known phenomena: ceteris paribus, in conversations between men and women, (a) men speak significantly more than women, and (b) men interrupt women significantly more than vice versa. The...
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Conjunct order in the comics
Today’s Rhymes With Orange.on love and conjunct order: So: in coordinated pairs of names, which comes first, and why? In the case at hand, whoever creates the coordination (here, carving it into a...
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Fellows
A Dilbert from 9/7/91 (passed on by Tom Limoncelli): Betty balks at the title fellow — because she thinks of only one of the three lexical items fellow, informal ‘man, boy’. But there are two others,...
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Brewster Rockit to the rescue
[revised version] From David Preston, yesterday’s Brewster Rockit comic strip, in a male character attempts to mansplain mansplaining to Pamela Mae Snap (aka Irritable Belle): (#1) (Note strategic use...
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Revisiting 1: Will McPhail
Cartoons by Will McPhail, last seen here in three cartoons on 4/15/17, in particular a wordless cartoon (in which God slam-dunks in an angel’s halo). Now from the August 28th New Yorker, this complex...
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Sea foam
The Zits from August 31st: (#1) About color naming, and its association with sex/gender. The stereotype is that males use only a small number of color names, but that females draw on a much more...
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Irmas
Hurricane Irma works its way through the Caribbean, now aiming at Florida. There’s nothing useful I can do at this distance, so I’ve been frittering away my time recalling the famous Irmas of my world...
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bossercize
Today’s Dilbert, in which the pointy-haired boss goes portmanteauing: (#1) boss + exercise (in a spelling variant with –ize) = bossercize, formed on the model of the name of the dance fitness company...
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volumptuous
That’s the portmanteau in yesterday’s Luann strip: voluminous + voluptuous, probably with a bit of sumptuous mixed in — but certainly ample heft combined with sensuousness. Not a waif, and not any...
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Another ubertwink
(Discussion of men’s bodies and mansex in very plain terms, photos of naked, though not quite X-rated, men, so not at all for kids or the sexually modest.) Liam Riley, actually an ubertwink we’ve seen...
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