I'm feeling particularly lucky and happy of late to have found so many awesome women to admire, to look up to and have as examples of what I can do and be. Part of the ongoing discussion I've participated in here and on Galactic Suburbia and elsewhere has focussed on the percentage of female representation in various things like anthology table of ( Read more... )

I'm so bored of this election campaign. I love politics but I'm tuning out. I'm sick and tired of the first words out of a politician's mouth in answering a question are why the other guy is crap. That is not the answer to "what is your policy on" and in fact it makes me think you're either lying, don't have one or that this is "not a core promise ( Read more... )

I feel a need to post a follow up post to what happened yesterday and last night here. The specific comments from the other person were deleted by that person but many people read them as they were being posted and followed the discussion as it happened ( Read more... )

I'm still in discussion with a couple of people in the last post I made on the topic. And something that springs to mind is what is meant by the word "privilege". People don't like the word, I guess, cause it's been used as a put down around the traps lately or as a way of dismissing someone's thoughts. But the way I see it is ... some people get ( Read more... )

Whilst I was writing the last post, a really interesting link to a post about rape arrived in my inbox from a friend.

The way men and women interact on a daily basis is the way they interact when rape occurs. The social dynamics we see at play between men and women are the same social dynamics that cause men to feel rape is okay, and women to ( Read more... )

He admits that while functionality is first and foremost, some women may find the idea of their cycles being "tracked" a tad offensive.

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ONE hundred thousand men sick of copping a monthly serve from cranky wives and girlfriends have signed up for an online reminder service that warns when pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS) is about to hit ( Read more... )