Link-o-rama!

+ It turns out that sixteen-year-old boys think about things other than sex. Shocking, I know. But a new study says that today’s sixteen-year-old boys are actually interested in girls for their personalities. (Although, as Jill at Feministe points out, forcing boys into the “teenage boys are sex-crazed beasts” box is pretty darned sexist, and so is the Times’s headline.)

+ Were you aware that it’s not legal to be a female president? This guy’s argument is that the 19th Amendment gave women the vote but it doesn’t say anywhere that women can run for president. Of course, there’s no law forbidding a female president, and it’s not like HRC’s even the first one to run, so this guy’s just blowing smoke, and it’s smoke that reeks of desperation, no?

+ Some dude figures out what any woman who’s ever tried online dating already knows: some of the guys are really frickin’ creepy. There’s probably something more to say here about gendered expectations and being a “hot girl” and, I don’t know, the whole article kind of gives me the shakes. I don’t want to look too deeply, so I leave that to you.

+ Ellen Page is awesome.

+ The feminists are baffled by Senator Clinton. Probably this is symptomatic of the activist fundamentalism happening on teh interwebs wherein the hard core [circle one: Clinton Obama ] supporters are trying to paint their opponent’s supporters as crazy or delusional, and, conversely, there’s a lot of blind devotion to a candidate and… look, neither is perfect. And, yes a woman president would be tremendous, but if we’re going to take back the country, there are other factors, you know?

+ Elle says men do want anorexic chicks.

+ There’s a new book out on women and mental illness.

+ New toys teach girls social responsibility and boys how to play air guitar. Riiight.

+ Shakesville’s Senior Shakesville Teen Analyst and 18-year-old Man-Boy of Leisure Kenny Blogginz learns an Important Lesson about feminism.

+ xkcd gets it right.

Oh, man. So much sexism, so little time.