THIS, basically.
We are told, continually and throughout our lives and in every major media outlet and dating guide, that Guys Are Just Like That. Or the vast majority of them, anyway. Guys want physical contact, girls want emotional contact, we’re told; therefore, if we make physical contact with a guy, we should not expect emotional contact to ( Read more... )

In Chinese, there are two words for "queen", 王后 and 女王; the first, when broken up into separate words, means "behind the king", and the second is "woman king".

This entry was originally posted at http://the-grynne.dreamwidth.org/927574.html and has
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"One of the most tragic things that happened yesterday, a beautiful day, was that I was talking to woman who said that she wouldn't want to be me for anything in the world. She wouldn't want to live today and look ahead to what it is she sees because she's afraid. Fear is always with us but we just don't have time for it. Not now."Hillary D. Rodham ( Read more... )

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F-list, you're torturing me with all your Bourne Ultimatum afterglow stories. I don't know how to put up with the envy for another 3+ weeks.

Excerpt from Will Kymlicka, "Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction" (2nd Ed.), 2002:

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Why haven't family relations been subjected to the test of individual privacy? The answer cannot be that ( Read more... )

Gloria Steinem considers the term "chick flicks":
Just as there are “novelists” and then “women novelists,” there are “movies” and then “chick flicks.” Whoever is in power takes over the noun-and the norm-while the less powerful get an adjective. Thus, we read about  “African American doctors” but not “European American doctors,” “Hispanic leaders ( Read more... )