links for 2005-08-23

• McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Your Children Are Destroying the Neighborhood.
  (snort)
• A Perilous Journey From Delivery Room to Bedroom - New York Times
  dear menfolk of planet earth: suck it up, jerkwads!

Comments

[Belinda]

My husband (bless his heart) says that the whole "delivery room to bedroom" thing is just the stupidest thing he's ever heard. Guess I got one of the REAL men, huh?

[styro]

Once, after his first child was born, one of my man-friends confided at a party that post-baby sex with his wife was like "throwing a hot dog through a garage door."

Nice one, eh?

[David]

Sweetney's right--Suck it up, guys! Whatever's going through your head is also going through hers. So, be a good partner and get over it FAST!...and say what Belinda's husband said (above), whether you mean it or not.

[hampope]

Hot Dog Through Garage Door. Uh-huh.

Why is it very time I hear a modern man's simile for the act of coitus, one in which they try to illustrate the process through our world's everyday objects, I gag visibly?

Have you heard about cutting a hole in a melon and then heating it in the oven...? well, now you have, 'cause that's what it's like.

A commenter, "julia," on "John & Belle Have a Blog" (link above), said she Googled the writer/doctor, Ablow, and found that "his specialty is forensic psychiatry, specifically murderers, gang members and sex offenders." Yikes to the enth degree.

hampope