"I've heard one person say that they started cramping during ovulation after getting their IUD, when they never had before ( Read more... )

Arrrrrrgh I've been reading blog posts and news articles about gender and gaming for like an hour now and I am frustrated.

"...Yair Landau, vice chairman of Sony Pictures and president of Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, said: 'We are clearly moving beyond men in tights with broadswords. Women in cocktail dresses and stilettos and men in ( Read more... )

Twice this semester, I've contested examples used in semantics lessons that were based on assumptions about gender and sexuality. In Semantics Kac gave us an assignment that made use of the terms "women" and "female" and their respective overlap in both possible worlds and the actual world. One question asked us to look at two statements about " ( Read more... )

Something's been stewing in the back of my mind for awhile, and Anne Phibbs put it into words for me today at a training she led. When bisexual people end up with a partner, and people call it "choosing" hetero- or homosexuality, it's because they're conflating a choice of a partner with a choice of a gender ( Read more... )