May 12, 2008
Michelle Triola (formerly Marvin): Once burned but twice foolish?
The Michelle Triola Marvin 1977 palimony suit against star Lee Marvin appeared to exemplify two things: 1) The way so many people in contemporary American have abandoned a recorded marriage for the informality of cohabitation and 2) The inferiority of cohabitation to marriage.
Although Michelle Triola Marvin had changed her last name to that of the [...]
May 11, 2008
Could there be a biologically based reason men may be especially attracted to other men’s wives?
One of my favorite Golden Oldies is “Midnight Confession.” The song’s narrator is a man passionately in love with a woman who is out of his reach: “a little gold ring you were on your hand makes me understand/There’s another before me, you’ll never be mine.”
A more recent popular song is “Mrs. Steven Rudy.” The [...]
May 10, 2008
On Becoming Fearless by Arianna Huffington, reviewed by Denise Noe
Denise Noe’s note: The book reviewed here is oriented primarily toward girls and women so some readers are likely to criticize me for putting this review on Men’s News Daily. However, I do not believe that it is irrelevant because men have wives, girlfriends, mothers, sisters, daughters, and other female relatives as well as female [...]
Comments (1) Filed under: Activism, Analysis, Book Review, Culture, Education, Entertainment, Families, Family, Feminism, Health, Mating, Marriage & Divorce, Media, Politics, Psychology, Sex & Relationships, Sex and Metropolis, Society, Vox Populi — Denise Noe @ 6:29 pmMay 6, 2008
How Bobby’s Girl refutes radical feminism
Back in the 1970s, there was a song I especially liked listening to when it played on an oldies station. At the time, I considered myself a feminist but knew this song would be anathema to most feminists. I couldn’t help liking it anyway and I still like it.
The song is “Bobby’s Girl” which was [...]
May 5, 2008
Why the cougar phenomenon is more jarring than older man-younger woman romances
There has been quite a bit of publicity recently about “cougars,” older women in romances, sexual liaison, and/or marriages with much younger men. Some people wonder why this should be more jarring that its more common and acceptable reverse of older men in similar relationships with much younger women.
In fact, there are reasons that people [...]
May 4, 2008
Primitive Love: Jayne Mansfield in something completely different
Primitive Love: Jayne Mansfield in something completely different
In Primitive Love, Jayne Mansfield, sex bomb, plays Jayne Mansfield the noted cultural anthropologist. Yep. If you think the premise is odd, you’re right, and the movie made from it is a genuine curiosity.
Looking her usual glamorous self, Jayne Mansfield checks into a hotel where she is to [...]
May 1, 2008
Mathematics and Humor: The surprising connections
Many people, especially the math-avoidant, are likely to look askance at the title of John Allen Paulos’ “Mathematics and Humor.” Mathematics and humor! What could they possibly have in common?
Quite a bit, as Paulos points out in this unusual, educational, and (yes) enjoyable volume. “Both mathematics and humor are forms of intellectual play,” [...]
April 30, 2008
William Hetherington: Rapist or scapegoat?
As some of my readers already know, I’ve put up three previous blogs about the case of William Hetherington, a Michigan man who has served more than 20 years in prison because he was convicted – on questionable evidence – of raping his wife while they were separated. I began researching the case after being [...]
Comments (7) Filed under: Culture, Domestic Violence, Families, Family, Fatherhood, Feminism, Feminist Justice, Mating, Marriage & Divorce, Mayhem, Men's Rights Activism, Politics, Psychology, Sex & Relationships, Sex and Metropolis, Society, Vox Populi — Denise Noe @ 3:19 amApril 29, 2008
A Virtuous Woman as seen in Proverbs 31
Much of the last chapter of Proverbs is dedicated to describing the characteristics of “a virtuous woman.” Verse 10 asks, “Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.”
It is interesting to examine the qualities that such a woman is said to possess as well as the affects she is said [...]
April 28, 2008
The Handcuff Man and the forensics of adoption
I wrote the article for Crime Library on the notorious Handcuff Man, a shadowy figure who brutally burned gay male prostitutes and men he mistook for homosexual hustlers. The Handcuff Man turned out to be Robert Lee Bennett, Jr., a wealthy attorney from an upper-class family.
The pathology of Bennett was even more puzzling than that [...]
