Twentysomethings writing a guide to anything lifestyle-related is nauseating. I'm not sure if it's worse than penning an autobiography before 30, but it's damn close.

Hopefully more lesbians will be inclined to embrace outward appearances of femininity, without going too far down the make-up road and the high-pitched squeal/giggle boulevard.

At the same time, more gay men need to put down the beauty products, drop their drama, and work out for health reasons instead of cruising.

Straight women need to learn how to stop attracting and encouraging assholes.

And straight men need to get a clue, quit being assholes, and learn how to engage in decent conversation about something other than sports, women, and their playthings (broadly defined).

Really, can the book possibly be better than these incisive (albeit categorical) statements about the sorry state of "men" and "women," as shaped by so-called society?
Nikos A. Leverenz | Homepage | 09.13.05 - 1:12 pm | #

That said, I look forward to webshiksa's memoir about "growing up gay in the South during the Reagan era."
Nikos A. Leverenz | Homepage | 09.13.05 - 1:17 pm | #

As long as it gots dirty pik-tures, I'll wrassle up a copy from the local bookhole. Kind of like "The Surrender", but wit boobies ur sumpthin'
Area man | 09.13.05 - 2:29 pm | #

What I want to know is do the young scribes have to pay the NY Post a royalty fee for stealing their book title from a Post headline: "Same Sex in the City." The lesbian celeb gossip fans among you might recall that page one headline in the Post atop a photo of Sex and the City's Miranda character with her real-life very female squeeze.
Leonardo | Homepage | 09.13.05 - 3:04 pm | #

Titles aren't usually subject to copyright, esp. newspaper titles.

If the NY Post ran a recurring feature called "Same Sex in the City," then they would have a legal claim (and probably increased circulation as well). I'm all for editors who like to "shock the conscience" of their core readership.

So while the NY Post would have a gay column, the NY Times could feature a good economist who write a feature entitled "Hetero Capitalist Pig" to basically mock Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd.
Nikos A. Leverenz | Homepage | 09.13.05 - 3:44 pm | #

I'm neither clear on nor interested in his sexuality, but isn't your man John Tierney?
Baylen Linnekin | Homepage | 09.13.05 - 3:59 pm | #

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