A reader shares a harrowing series of stories and insights on corporal punishment, which at times borders on torture: This email is too long, Andrew. But I don’t know another way to do it. Those last sentences in your post on “The Racial Divide On Spanking Kids” are packed with the stuff I’ve been struggling with all week. I’m sending … Continue reading “Psychological Suspense That No Child Is Equipped To Manage”
Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has been accused of beating his kid. Amy Davidson runs through what appears to have happened: This preschooler wasn’t paddled or, as Peterson put it to police, “swatted”; he was whipped with a stick and left with open wounds on his body. It’s also not obvious that Peterson has been at all … Continue reading The Other NFL Abuse Scandal
That’s what you’re seeing: The photographer Ingrid Berthon Moine is taken with testicles, both figuratively and physiologically; turning to the anatomically accurate statues of Classical Greece for her project Marbles, she focuses her lens on representations of the male sex organ. Isolated from the rest of the statues, the male sex organs take on new meanings, their textured … Continue reading Marble Marbles
A reader writes: While I did meet my wife of 16 years online, it wasn’t via a dating site (I don’t know if any existed then). It wasn’t even on the Internet. Or rather, it was, but not the way people think of it today. It was on one of the old USENET newsgroups, where a large … Continue reading A Dating Site For Every Subculture, Ctd
Not long after Jon Hamm’s beard, we present Critique My Dick Pic. It is, as Katie J.M. Baker puts it, “exactly what it sounds like” – so don’t click if you’re worried about nannying corporate overlords. My main objection, to be honest, is using “critique” as a verb. From the mission statement: this is a tumblr with … Continue reading Tumblr Of The Day
“The world’s biggest – probably only – pair of flying bollocks” for a good cause: For all of your scrotum-related Dish coverage, head here.
But then again, shirtless Geraldo is a lot more offensive than a pair of Wiki-balls.
A Professor of Human Resource Management writes: The Dish Scrotum-thread has so many confounded ideas occurring. Sexual harassment occurs when one person makes sexual advances, sexual propositions, or inappropriate sexual language toward another person inside of or under the auspices of an organization. The now famous Dish Scrotum photo wouldn’t fall under sexual harassment. Some of … Continue reading When Is A Picture Sexual Harassment?
A reader writes: My first reaction to seeing the scrotum was yay for you, and this from a feminist who is also a lesbian. Think of all the (non porn) movies containing full frontal female nakedness and/or female privates. Think: how often does a movie show a really naked man? Think of all the paintings … Continue reading Balls And Double Standards
Yesterday, I declared that, “in deference to the readers, this blog will henceforth censor itself in one area: no more non-pornographic, non-sexual depictions of any faintly naughty bits of the actual human body.” A reader pushes back: The reason I subscribe to The Dish is because I love the range of issues you cover. Politics and poetry, … Continue reading The Dish’s NSFW Saturday Night
