Mixed martial arts is the fastest-growing sport on Earth.... what does this bloody spectacle say about the world we live in?
I don't know what, if anything, it says about the world we live in, but that article suggests to me someone who does not know a great deal about the history of sport/popular entertainment - I am like, o tempora, o mores, what ( Read more... )

Classic 70s feminist essay, Jo Freeman's 'The Tyranny of Structurelessness', seems pertinent: in that it shows how apparent informality can conceal networks of power and obfuscate the hierarchies that are there.

Of late I have had a number of emails addressed to me in my professional capacity beginning Dear [firstname] (one of them even managed to misspell this in an unusual, rather than the unfortunately predictable, way) instead of[Appropriate honorific] [surname]. Am I showing my age and being an unnecessary stickler ('Disgusted of North London') by ( Read more... )