It's not often I post about a magazine, but this week's New York Magazine has a slew of interesting articles, and I read it from cover to cover. One of the most intriguing features is The Science of Gaydar in which David France explores genetic traits common to gay men and women.
Moving from gay men to a rich man, there's also a great portrait of Steve Jobs. John Heilemann discusses Jobs's career, his caustic personality and the future of Apple and the iPhone.
And, there are interesting articles regarding The Sopranos and the best street food in New York City. Mmmmmm, street food.
The late psychologist and sexologist John Money famously called these the details of our “gendermaps,” which he believed are drawn primarily by life’s experience and social conditioning. Money planted some of the earliest flags in the nature-versus-nurture war by claiming that dysfunctional parents, not inborn biology, is what produced “sissy boys,” tomboys, and other gender variants. But today, the pendulum has swung just about as far in the other direction as possible. A small constellation of researchers is specifically analyzing the traits and characteristics that, though more pronounced in some than in others, not only make us gay but also make us appear gay.There are quite a few traits that are more common in gay men, from left-handedness to specific hair swirls.
Moving from gay men to a rich man, there's also a great portrait of Steve Jobs. John Heilemann discusses Jobs's career, his caustic personality and the future of Apple and the iPhone.
The consistent thread running through all three acts is Jobs’s singular persona. His messianism has been present from the start: “He always believed,” says Wozniak, “he was going to be a leader of mankind.” Yet the most common descriptor applied to him, by friends and foes and even Jobs himself, is “asshole.” (Running neck-and-neck for second are “genius” and “sociopath.”) His abrasiveness is legendary and omnidirectional. Asked by a writer from Wired, “If you could go back and give advice to your 25-year-old self, what would you say?,” Jobs erupted, “Not to deal with stupid interviews—I have no time for this philosophical bullshit!”
