Placido Domingo

The Castrated Tenor

(The article in its original Spanish immediately follows.) Is it political correctness, or the revenge of a jealous Scientology intending to transform Placido Domingo into a castrato? What an aberration! “In five minutes they wanted to destroy sixty years of career,” said the tenor to the journalist and musicologist Rubén Amón. Domingo is aware of how times have changed and the way women and men relate—even a compliment is prohibited!—but strongly denies any sexual harassment or blackmail. We have not witnessed such an attempt to lynch a tenor since Enrico Caruso was arrested for ...

This Week in Epic Beta Male Faggotry

I have a confession to make to all my straight male friends: I thought you were gay. Call it a hazard of big-city living: I’ve automatically assumed every guy I’ve ...

What Childbirth Is Really Like

I watched the birth of my third child this week and it's amazing how quickly you forget the bad parts. I understand why. We probably wouldn"€™t be here if we didn"€™t ...

The Real War on Women

A popular meme claims there is a “War on Women” in America. Unlike an actual conflict, this conflagration takes on as many metamorphoses as there are maniacs to ...

Randy

The 12-Step Plan to Restore American Machismo

While getting drunk last night, I noticed a young man had plonked his sports bottle down on the bar like it was a gun and we were in the Wild West. I asked him what the fuck was ...

Dov Charney with co-worker Eliana Rodriguez

Sexually Charged: From Charney to Seagal

Sexual-harassment lawsuits began in the mid-1970s but really gained momentum in the politically correct 90s when radical feminism helped expand the definition of "€œrape"€ to ...

A Sorkin Excuse of a Man

I read an article the other day in The Huffington Post by Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter of A Few Good Men, The West Wing, Charlie Wilson's War, and more recently, The Social Network. ...


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