Before I write the next post, before I reply to your invigorating comments and emails, please let me explain my absence.

I’ve been busy — buzzingly, boundingly busy. Five lovely hours spent being the witness at my friend’s wedding followed by an Italian lunch on India Street, four visits to an ailing uncle in a [...]]]> http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/31/ask-o-logy-pardon-the-interruption/feed/ 1 http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/28/ask-o-logy-the-squirmy-gender-question-part-iii/ http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/28/ask-o-logy-the-squirmy-gender-question-part-iii/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:08:00 +0000 La Roxy http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/28/ask-o-logy-the-squirmy-gender-question-part-iii/ La Roxy walks into a bar.

She’s stranded in a distant land and in dire need of:

1) the antidote to the venom of the snake that just bit her2) an emergency loan to buy a tire because she has a flat and only 47.50 foofis (about $18) to her name3) honest input, because she’s really aching [...]]]> http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/28/ask-o-logy-the-squirmy-gender-question-part-iii/feed/ 1 http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/24/ask-o-logy-interruption-save-50-off-a-250-bed/ http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/24/ask-o-logy-interruption-save-50-off-a-250-bed/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:29:00 +0000 La Roxy http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/24/ask-o-logy-interruption-save-50-off-a-250-bed/ I’ve been writing and writing these reports, and we’re almost done!! Two more to go.

But I miss the other reports. The ones where I gallivant around town, ask away, and then tell you, gentle reader, what I’ve been up to!

So I thought I’d interject such a story, because it’s a good one. Because it confirms [...]]]> http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/24/ask-o-logy-interruption-save-50-off-a-250-bed/feed/ 3 http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/23/ask-o-logy-the-squirmy-gender-question-part-ii/ http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/23/ask-o-logy-the-squirmy-gender-question-part-ii/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:52:00 +0000 La Roxy http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/23/ask-o-logy-the-squirmy-gender-question-part-ii/ As far as gender is concerned, one limitation of this experiment is that it’s one sided. I can’t turn myself into a man and see how people react, and I didn’t collaborate with a man to ask the same question, in the same way, to the same person, and see if the results were different. [...]]]> http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/23/ask-o-logy-the-squirmy-gender-question-part-ii/feed/ 0 http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/23/ask-o-logy-the-squirmy-gender-question/ http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/23/ask-o-logy-the-squirmy-gender-question/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:15:00 +0000 La Roxy http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/23/ask-o-logy-the-squirmy-gender-question/ Five factoids:

1. When men earn more than their wives do, they’re happier. And it can’t just be a little more income — there has to be a big gap for a husband to feel “satisfaction.” (Source: Study cited in Tuesday’s WSJ.)

2. Women don’t receive promotions, opportunities, responsibilities, privileges, exceptions, perks and benefits because… they don’t [...]]]> http://dailyasker.com/Wordpress/2009/07/23/ask-o-logy-the-squirmy-gender-question/feed/ 2