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  • Several scholars have noted that in country lyrics—even in the “outlaw” country movement that projected images of wayward, hard-drinking, womanizing “cowboys”—“satisfactory male-female relations are equated with good marriage.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • We're going to bring you all the news from the football world as it happens, thanks to our dishevelled army of hacks attending pressers the length and breadth of the UK, as well as various other information streams to which we have access the news wires, assorted club websites, the local press and whatever male-female tag-team happen to be presenting on Sky Sports News at any given time.

    Football live blog - 30 September 2011

  • Consequently women are charging much higher bride prices (equivalent of 5 or even 10 years 'farming wages) and there are scams in which women show up in rural towns with particularly unequal male-female ratio, and pose as relatives of a town resident.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Which is to say I can work at a career and child care and joint homeownership and even platonic male-female friendship.

    Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 2009

  • He has suggested that the male-female relationship might be its primal form.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • What the deal is, is that Title IX offers a safe harbor for schools to avoid potential liability if their male-female participation ratio approximates the gender breakdown of the student body as a whole.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Impact of Title IX 2010

  • March 31st, 2010 at 4: 38 pm it is currently postulated that for tens of thousands of years the average male-female ‘relationship’ lasted 4 years on average. wiley says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Eternal Recurrence 2010

  • First, these kinds of male-female age gaps are not uncommon, and usually garner few objections.

    Good luck to Caroline Flack. She'll need it | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • Meaning a school with a 50-50 male-female ratio needs to split scholarship money 50-50, but if a ton of male non-scholarship runners want to spend their college careers running 20 miles a day when they could be having a blast, then they can have that opportunity.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Impact of Title IX 2010

  • -- Honor the stated intent of Prop. 8 (viz., precluding the state from using marriage terminology to officially acknowledge any relationship other than that of a male-female couple) - an important goal to be faithful to the people as well, but one which cannot be accomplished by undermining the principal one of equality.

    Douglas Kmiec comes out against Proposition 8... 2009

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