With so many marriages ending in "I don't want to anymore", one wonders whether when women talk about being in long term committed relationships they are making an observation on how long the relationship has, as a matter of fact, lasted so far, or whether they set out with the intention of ensuring things got to that point.  It's not that the men are off the hook in this state of affairs.  After all, if men can't commit or won't commit or both at the same time (it makes little difference; the result is always the same), it is triumph even for women to achieve a long term committed relationship, something more traditionally guaranteed by prisons and mental hospitals.  Impolite are inmates--those who rate a life sentence--who talk amongst themselves about having "got the bitch".  What must their women make of them?  Some bargains are not worth having. The smart money has always been on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and proto and post anthropologists everyw...

No one warned us that starting university was going to be such a strange experience.  Well, perhaps not strange, but certainly an essay in sociology or anthropology.  So, it was with some relief that our Anthro 101 prof suggested that we each undertake an anthropological study on campus, partly to acclimatize ourselves to postsecondary life, partly to begin to learn a discipline whose goal was to help you understand the weird and the wonderful. Among the topics proposed by our prof were: A"content analysis" of iron-on T-shirt transfers spotted on campus; Stitch designs on the back pockets of blue jeans; First words spoken by profs by discipline; Elevator behaviour per building; Graffiti on the risers of stairs in the Social Sciences tower; Graffitti on the backs of fiberglass chairs, also in the Social Sciences tower; Subjects, authors and titles featured in low traffic areas of the library; Reception of persons with amputations; Faculty and student satisfaction...