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Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in ( Read more... )

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I just read this article about tabletop rpgs, nostalgia and fueling your imagination: http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/03/08/dungeons_and_dragons_comes_back/index.htmlRead more... )

Since this is the international women's day today, I want to write about women who've inspired me in my life.

Linda Hamilton / Sarah ConnorYeah, I know she's made up, but when I saw Terminator 2 as an impressionable, young girl, I was inspired by this woman. This though person who would face anything to save the world. And who could do pull-ups ( Read more... )

As you all probably already know: I'm a feminist. I come from a country, a culture and a family where being a feminist is all but required.* But for the last year, I've lived in a new country where I know little of the policies and even less of public causes (the fight against mandatory download and bandwidth caps being the only exception) and I ( Read more... )

I know in my heart that women and men are equal. When people try to tell me there are large differences in the way men and women aquire knowledge, or in the way we think, I usually counter with the cultural argument: there are larger differences between people from different parts of the world than between men and women. Can you really say that ( Read more... )

As I'm sure you're aware, I used to love Supernatural. Until the third season, that is. Then, I started feeling like it was losing it's way. In my head, the story was rounded up to a nice finish with Sam's death at the end. No need to bring him back. No need for more seasons. Great show. The end ( Read more... )

Hurghada, as it turns out, got better after a few days. Sure, it was still weird to have to actively ignore people yelling at me, but we did meet a bunch of Egyptians not interested in selling us stuff, and they turned out to be really nice people. There was the adorable gay couple living in the same hotel as us, the nice couple who went on a ( Read more... )

I consider myself a feminist. Often, I feel like I bore my friends with talk of how every single movie we watch depict sterotypes of women (or, in some later films like Transformers 2 and No Country for Old Men, women are completely unnecessary), of how society in general and women and men in general perpetuate stereotypes of who you are allowed to ( Read more... )

I find it hard to believe that biological differences between men and women are so very great, so why is it that the notion is so hard to dissuade in people? I feel surrounded by enlightening and informative articles like this: http://www.newsweek.com/id/214834 and yet people insist ( Read more... )