I wish I could say I find scrawny guys as hot as built ones. I just can’t. Like straight men with big boobs, gay men cannot resist the siren call of big chests or an ass you can rest a jager shot on. As long as that is true, and the science exists to make you hotter, you can growl with naivete like Richard Cohen or you can face reality and try to make the best of it.

Andrew Sullivan argues men are shallow when it comes to sex.

On Mark’s birthday, in May 2006, I received an email from his administrative assistant telling me that it would be my job that day, along with all the other women in the office, to wear a T-shirt with Mark’s picture on it. The gender coding was clear: women were to declare allegiance to Mark, and men were to become Mark.

Katherine Losse had just dropped out of grad school at Johns Hopkins when she moved to Palo Alto and was hired as Facebook employee No. 51. In her new book, The Boy Kings, she describes Facebook as a men-driven fraternity full of immature and sexually inappropriate behavior. Plenty more here.

The U.S. National Archives’s Flickr account has a series of portraits of miners on their way to work in Richlands, Virginia, in 1974. This one was taken by photographer Jack Corn as part of the Documerica Project, where “the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life in the 1970s.” nwk tumblr would like to add there is nothing particularly problematic about this man’s face.

And here’s to the ladies, who are having a MUCH better week than the fellas right now.

(via katespadeny)