I was just brought to attention about an article written by Dr. Michelle Cretella on transgenderism and youth, in which she likens treating children just entering puberty with puberty blockers and hormones as "child abuse."  The article, written in the Daily Signal, lists her credentials as such:

Michelle Cretella, M.D., is president of the ( Read more... )

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Today's topic on Miss Vanni's Neighborhood revolves around the topic of Polyamory ( Read more... )

There was an interesting post in Andrew Sullivan's Blog, The Daily Dish, about women writing for Wikipedia.  The author of the quoted letter purports to be a female editor for Wikipedia.  The article in question discusses why the lack of more female editors and participation in Wiki by females is a bad thing.

She starts of by saying  that the ( Read more... )

This comes up a lot in SL:  "I have to know your RL age, location, and GENDER!"   A small sampling about this:

Is there anyway to tell if the woman you are talking to is not really a man? or vice versa? Is Linden Lab considering adding gender verification to protect people from getting tricked into hooking up with the undesired gender of personal ( Read more... )

I was over at a "munch" (a term for an informal BDSM talk) at Deitide today on BDSM lifestyes with Lex.  It was pretty interesting overall; there was some good discussion on the nature of the d/s relationship, how it is both similar and different from "vanilla" relationship, and what kind of expectations come out of it.

After a while though, the ( Read more... )