from an article on a poll about sex-ed in England
Promoting her Bill [that would require schools to give girls aged 13 to 16 extra sex education lessons, giving "information and advice on the benefits of abstinence"], Ms Dorries quoted 2007 Office for National Statistics figures that she said showed that Britain has the highest teenage pregnancy ( Read more... )

manga_critic on Twitter pointed out:

I love the retailer who turns up at The Beat to refute Shaenon’s arguments by pointing to his man-cave marketing strategies. link

“Only men who like superhero floppies patronize my shop, ergo no female audience for comics exists!” link

The first time I entered a comic shop, they had a huge display of Art ( Read more... )

A while ago one of my online-friends, Eliza Gebow, mentioned something about asking people what scares them most, to incorporate it in her writing.

Trying to think of what that I had read in a piece of fiction scared me most, a situation from one of Lois McMasterBujold’s “Miles Vorkosigan” books came to my mind.

There was a woman who got a ( Read more... )