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[nwhyte]

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  The Representation of Women in Fantasy: What’s the Problem? - a guest post by author Juliet E McKenna | Bad Reputation
  I really do not want my teenage sons unconsciously absorbing notions of male privilege and entitlement in stories where a woman’s importance is always defined by who she might choose to sleep with, or better yet,

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[del_c]

The problem I have with alignment stories is they never say what the alignment is, or rather, they assume that the earth is flat, so that map line=great circle=sunrise alignment

If they drew this with a ruler on a map, were they aware that the map is a conic projection? Are they actually drawing a great circle, or a line of constant sunrise alignment? (it can't be both, and the constant alignment would only look straight on a Mercator map, which single-country maps rarely are)

Also, why don't they show all the St. Michaels nearby that aren't on the line? There could be hundreds of them.

Archaeology in Somaliland

[redfiona99]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128240.400-somali-archaeologist-we-need-culture-in-a-time-of-war.html Thought you'd be interested.