WHAT IS IT, LADIES? Northern Star editor Barbara Bystryk complains about college men who are "Gen-Y scum [actually Thirteenth Generation relics] who’ve embraced a degenerated form of chivalry. They’ll pitch a can of Miller High Life at a woman, adjust their package and stare at her breasts when they talk to her. Then they wonder why the woman is frowning and eager to go home to wash her hair or feed her cat," and lays down her ultimatum: "A lot of women would agree that it’s nice to be taken out by gentlemen who are well-mannered. But, we can usually tell if their socially acceptable actions are insincere, desperate attempts to 'get some.' They’ll get some all right — at home, alone."

On the other hand, columnist Courtney Cavanaugh defends Christina Aguilera: "It was hip to envision an attractive female teen prancing around in a school- girl skirt. It was cool to use this image to add excitement when the wife wasn’t doing it for you anymore. It was acceptable for a minor to serve as the male fantasy to most men who will never attempt (very rightfully) to fulfill their secret fantasies about the girl next door." Christina, in fact, is being authentic. "Her need to be raw and even raunchy has always been lurking under the surface of this brave, determined and sexually secure woman." That's just the kind of authenticity that leads the Thirteenth Generation holdovers to behave like cads.