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As usual, Ed Yong pwns. The comments on his article are good too. Scicurious gets to what I think Newitz was trying to say, and ( Read more... )

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The Urbane Tomboys

By Meredith Bryan
March 18, 2008 | 12:37 p.m

You guys, how can this be nearly three years old?  There's no point in fisking such an ancient relic.  BUT I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY.

I've tried like three times this past week to sit down and review, but I think the problem is I read some heavier stuff this go-round and the thought of thinking was just not appealing. But I promised myself I would read Harry Potter after I got this next set reviewed, so here I go. Apologies in advance if I end up giving some of these short ( Read more... )

I have this idea that radical lesbian feminism is essentially about gender essentialism, but I have problems with trying to write about it. I understand it to be a sort of bitter, hopeless worldview, and every interaction I have with its members just reinforces that notion. *sigh*

I have a friend. She's one of my oldest friends, and I like her a lot, despite not being as close to her as I used to be. She's throwing a wedding shower (which I can't attend) and enclosed in the shower invitation was a pool party invitation for the men, held at the same time as the shower ( Read more... )

I walk funny.  I don't know when it started, but I have a funny walk.  I drop my butt and bend my knees slightly, and when I step I swing my lower leg around my body in a shallow arc instead of lifting my knee and swinging it straight forward.  It's almost a sailor's walk, and it looks ridiculous ( Read more... )

During adolescence, the female brain is washed in estrogen. Female teenagers, in general, experience an intense desire for social connection, which releases near-orgasmic rushes of oxytocin in the brain.

Thank you, so much David.  I finally understand why my teenage years were spent in near-orgasmic joy.

You are surprised when an email titled 'No longer a "Mr."' is about a coworker getting his Ph.D.

And again, I am greatly, greatly annoyed at the requirement to choose a prefix in order to contact a member of government.

Law and Order is coming to life.  Although according to Jason, for those of you who know who he is, the child molesters are always the ones who end up dead.  Apparently even the hardest of the hardened hate them.

In case you haven't seen it.It's sad when people are in denial like this.  There are plenty of accepting, liberal denominations of ( Read more... )