Gender, Desire, and the Impoverishment of Heterosexual Privilege in the New York Times

When I first read through this weekend's cover story in the New York Times Magazine, Sexless but Equal, I was annoyed and thought, oh I'm going to have to write some sort of response to this. But about an hour later I had forgotten all about it, which may be exactly right.

The piece was the same sort of bland admixture of heteronormative anxiety (that moment when you realize that compulsory monogamy isn't really consensual), sociobiological nonsense (men who clean up around the house are emas...