Topic: Managing Multiple UMs (Useful Males)
Question:
“I met ‘Tom’ at a company meeting and we started spending time together. It’s not romantic. We go to films together once or twice a month when he’s in town. I don’t even know if he’s married but I’d call him my Entertainment UM. Should I be feeling guilty (more…)
I wrote this blog for two reasons. One, I got very annoyed by some blogs I read where women were telling other women what their interpretation of the world “help-meet” was. That happens to be the pathetic word that most English translations of the Bible used to describe Eve, even though it is widely regarded as an inaccurate translation. Second, I read an interesting article about a rabbi who translated the word for God in the original Hebrew scripture as being of dual gender. After a little more research…here’s my proposed solution…
Changing the Bible Back (Into a Girl-Friendly Book) (more…)
When Opinion Masquerades as “Science” (ahem, your cultural prejudices are showing)
I just read a book called Sex, Time and Power by Leonard Schlain ( http://www.sextimeandpower.com/). In it he tries to explain how women originally “talked” men into being monogamous. I was very disappointed because I quite liked the first half of the book which had some decent science in it. But this idea (about who initiated monogamy) has got to be one of the dumber things I have ever read. Although for the record, the author clearly isn’t stupid. He’s just sadly mistaken. (more…)