For the third time in recent memory, I have talked to friends whose doctors were very insistent that they needed full hysterectomies, but who were able to find alternatives that were less invasive, less emotionally fraught, and equally successful in treating the problem ( Read more... )

I have just finished reading Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us by Claude M. Steele. I have it from the library, but am strongly considering purchasing my own copy. This is a book I think everyone should read. Really, everyone.

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In the late 80's, my two male roommates and a couple of other male friends took part in a very cool drug study. Every week for six weeks they would go to a lab, take two pills, and hang out for four hours, filling out surveys and eating take-out. The pills were Valium, amphetamines, a low dose of nathazadone, a high dose of nathazadone, and a ( Read more... )

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Following a link from this Slate article addressing the question of whether vegetarians have better sex than meat-eaters, led me to this press release about a study showing that overweight and obese women appear to be a sexually active, or slightly moreso, than women of "normal weight".

My favorite bit:

...the important part to take away from ( Read more... )

From an interview with Rihanna (a 19-year-old singer with a current No. 1 hit) in this week's Entertainment Weekly:

"Good Girl Gone Bad (her new album) is an expression of where I'm at in my life and my career...It's like, 'This is me. This is what I'm doing. I don't care if you like it or not.' That's a bad girl's attitude."

This column in the LA Times details some of the experiences one of their reporters had while covering stories in Saudi Arabia. I've read a couple of books by women with similar stories to tell, but this is a nicely written piece.

She writes:
To me, the abaya implied that a woman's body is a distraction and an interruption, a thing that must be ( Read more... )

Here's the NY Times article that caught my attention this morning. The DePauw University chapter of Delta Zeta is being re-organized by their national, in such a way that all the non-white, non-skinny women have been asked to leave. I'm not a huge supporter of the Greek system, but I do know how important a person's house can be to them and some ( Read more... )

Yanked in its entirety from kathrynt:

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In case no one else has pointed you at it, the women among you will definitely get at least one laugh out of this rant about feminine hygiene products. Men not squicked by TMI may also enjoy it.

Snaps to jmspencer for calling my attention to it.