Three posts by DirkJohanson on The Balls Monologues have been nominated in the Online category for the prestigious Gerald Loeb Awards, presented by the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The Loeb Awards were established in 1957 by the late Gerald Loeb to honor journalists who make significant contributions to the understanding of business, finance and...
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Not surprisingly, I have not heard from Amy M. - the self-purportedly petite, self-proclaimed “toothsome” but dateless lawyer who considers all guys babies – in response to my offer to ask her out on a date. Perhaps surprisingly, however, is that all trace of Amy M.’s multiple comments to The Wall Street Journal concerning the...
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Some people think swingers will have sex with all comers at the drop the hat. This is simply not true. Close – but not entirely true. In fact, all swingers have rules and nearly all have standards, as demonstrated by the email I received today below (for interpretation purposes, I note that again that the word “lifestyle” is insider...
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The Superfreakonomics Virtual Book Club on the New York Times online ran a discussion between two labor economics on the guy-female wage gap. While largely siding with the guys’ side of on the issue in presentation their justifications for the gap – after all, the Freakonomics people are known for poking holes in conventional stupidity - the economists (Claudia Goldin and...
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According to police in St. Petersburg, Florida, Bettis-Ware was arguing with her guyfriend about something that happened on “American Idol.” The guy went to bed, and awoke to Bettis-Ware wielding a 10-inch butcher knife. Bettis-Ware stabbed the guy five times in the back and twice in the chest, an arrest affidavit states, and when he managed to...
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Amy M., the self-promoting “by all accounts, toothsome” but dateless lawyer who called guys – all of us – “babies” on The Wall Street Journal online, has responded to my post. In the interest of the facts, at least as related by Amy M., I hereby “reprint” her reply: … I’m petite – five feet tall and 100 pounds. Insinuating that...
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So says an Op-Ed piece in The Wall Street Journal, featuring a “tall” young woman named Rachel Downtain, who works for Sprint/Embarq in Kansas City. Or maybe – not to go out on a limb here – women, with ever-increasing spending needs and years of nabbing alpha males for sexual rendezvous, are just getting snobbier. Echoing the old...
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Add E. Jean of Elle to the list of guy-bashing advice columnists Dan Savage was talking about. In a January 15 advice column entitled, I Caught My Boyfriend with a Call Girl, E. Jean advised the woman to keep packing her bags, and attacks the raging popularity of sex for hire, referring to us payahs as ”dickweeds” and to sex...
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In his recent column, “In Defense of Men” , gay Guyinist Dan Savage was, IMO, falsely accused in the following missive: Your advice for Seriously Troubled Here, the MARRIED MAN whose WIFE made out with another man (who she CLAIMS was gay) was the kind of knee-jerk anti-male bullshit and anti-male bias that straight men have come...
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Katy Perry is apparently pregnant. Katy Perry She might have “kissed a girl,” and liked it enough to subject to the world to having to hear her sing about it a gazillion times a day back in 2008, but she seems to have done more than kiss Russell Brand. The Bearly Lesbian singer has been spotted shopping –...
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