One of the biggest pet peeves of dads (and moms) is the assumption that he's somehow just a filler or a stand-in - rather than an equal player - when it comes to parenting.
The dude was so stunned to hear that Brown liked baseball (because girl and baseball...) that he challenged her to name some teams in the National League East.
As Cyndi Lauper famously said, "Girls just wanna have fun." And fun - according to the parks and rec people in Richmond Hill, Ont. - is narrowly defined as scrapbooking, baking and getting manicures. At least those were the activities proposed in their Girlz Rock camp.
Da Boyz, on the other hand, are promised a more "extreme" agenda, including rollerblading, biking, swimming and playing ultimate Frisbee.
Picture it: your little guy gets a duplicate toy for this birthday and you take him to the store to return it, telling him he can pick something else. It's your choice, you tell him. You choose whatever you want...
We claim we want to raise strong girls, but what if we're reinforcing the very gender biases that hold them back?
According to new research cited in the Washington Post, not only did 23 percent of girls and 40 percent of boys admit they liked their political leaders to be males, they felt similarly about business leaders.
Whatever boys can do, girls can do better... Alright, so maybe not better, but just as well. At least that's what's being said of three sisters from Monterrey, Mexico whose metal band "The Warning" has been gaining well-deserved attention.
How do girls impress boys? Well, duh. They fake being, if not stupid, then at least less intelligent than they actually are. So claims a new study from the University of Warwick in England.
You might be somewhat disarmed to find that the sexist note left for a female WestJet pilot was penned in Canada in the year 2014. A passenger, en route from Calgary to Victoria, felt necessary to express his dissatisfaction that the person flying the plane wasn't in possession of the right kind of tackle.
Have you seen Martin Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street? Apparently of all the movies up for Best Picture at last night's Oscars, Wolf had critics most divided. And not for the record number of f-bombs dropped, but for the record number of "grotesque" sexist and chauvinistic portrayals of women—so much so that Los Angeles writer Nicole Donadio took it upon herself to flip the roles.