Political Correctness in Modern Age
AfterEllen discusses Sarah Silverman's raunchy humor
The Discovery Channel's show "Bizarre Foods" and the phenomenon of the Stupid American.
In which a student believes that sex is a basic human right.

Gender and Sexuality
The first FTM?
Dakota Fanning is modeling for women's clothing now? Why this freaks people ( Read more... )

William Safire explains why "woman politician" sounds more patronizing than "female politician, and even touches on why I think the former is increasing in frequency.

Putting same sex marriage into historical context. I don't know where I got this link; if you IMed it to me, let me know?

The indelicacies of satirizing female politicians.

Guess ( Read more... )

spoilers for, oh, Hero (the season 3 episode where a human POW escapes):
There is a scene that introduces bisexuality, and two queer pop culture blogs reacted very differently.
AfterEllen is all excited and AfterElton is incredibly disappointed. (Personally, my reaction is more similar to AfterElton. Of all the people to use, you pick THAT setup ( Read more... )

Spoilers for the latest BSG episode (4th hour of season 3) behind the cut

( as noted on the second viewing )

BSG links:
Pharyngula asks his readers to convince him to watch BSG.
The intro to the A-Team. Notice anything...interesting? (Note of interest, Dirk Benedict, the guy in the clip in question, played Starbuck in the original BSG. So there's context to it.)
It's a music video love letter to the new series. I got this from the SCIFI CHANNEL ( Read more... )