Thanks to spacehawk for bringing this to my attention: "Becoming a Black Man":Louis Mitchell expected a lot of change when he began taking injections of hormones eight years ago to transition from a female body to a male one. He anticipated that he'd d grow a beard, which he eventually did and enjoys now. He knew his voice would deepen and that his ( Read more... )

Random insight: One issue I seem to spend a lot of time on with a lot of women is that they have been very, very deeply socialized not to be aggressive. For women so socialized (perhaps most) that cuts across all domains of aggression, not just physical fighting, but verbal altercations, too ( Read more... )

Have yet to figure out how to wedge being an early musician into things, but that's one of today's very, very few loose ends....

I subscribe to Creating Passionate Users via RSS, so I've been following the story from her initial post ( Read more... )

I just got this from rnewman:Please join us for ( Read more... )

Oh, gracious, I completely forgot to post about this last semester. It turned up in my research for my term paper, which was about women and careers.

The paper is:

Brown, C., Garavalia, L. S., Hines Fritts, M. L., & Olson, E. A. (2006). Computer science majors: Sex role orientation, academic achievement, and social cognitive factors. The Career ( Read more... )