The XX Factor : Boing Boing

In Support of a More Stringent Use of the Term ‘Douchebag’

Samantha Henig — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:48:00 GMT

A post from DoubleX writer Lauren Bans: There’s a funny spoof video up on Boing Boing framed as a PSA of sorts in support of douchebag solidarity. It features a handful of self-pegged douchebags, one pumping iron at the gym, another riffing for the amusement...(read more)

When a Man Loves a Virtual Woman

Samantha Henig — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:35:00 GMT

A post from DoubleX writer Lauren Bans: A few months back, the New York Times ran an alternately fascinating and creepy story about Japanese men who were in love with their life-size anime plush dolls, and shamelessly took them everywhere—to the beach,...(read more)

Wild Child or Wild World?

Ellen Tarlin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:18:00 GMT

Rachael and Emily , like Bonnie , I am of the better-safe-than-sorry school of parenting. First, I should say, Rachael has two-plus young children, Emily has two, Bonnie's are grown (correct me if I am mistaken), and I am childless by choice. I am a bit...(read more)

Where Are the Children?

Bonnie Goldstein — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:08:00 GMT

Rachael, you are the same age as my daughter, making me among the lead-paint-exposing, tummy-down-crib-placing cohort of child neglectors whose Gen X children narrowly survived. In fact, I was probably among the worst of the loosey-goosey caretakers of...(read more)

Freer-Range Kids

Emily Bazelon — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:54:00 GMT

Rachael , I'm also thoroughly depressed over the story of the cops getting called on the mom who let her 10-year-old walk one-third of a mile to soccer practice alone. Not just because of my own childhood walk to school, over several blocks in Philadelphia...(read more)

The Parent Trap

Rachael Larimore — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:40:00 GMT

In today's installment of "Wow, I feel like a geezer" ... I'm feeling like the stereotypical old man who grouses to his grandkids that when he was a kid, "We had to walk five miles to school, uphill each way, in three feet of snow." BoingBoing picked...(read more)