I couldn't help it! Reading about the concerns on the part of male scientists* that life in zero-g would cause women's menstrual flow to go backwards caused me to sputter, out loud, "Men are so stupidOf course, they're not. I mean, the person who write to Straight Dope has a female name, and she felt it necessary to ask the question, and ( Read more... )

Via Pandagon, Amanda turns me on to the joy and delight that is Target's new line of maternity t-shirts*

( Not that I'm shopping for such things )

The Great Feminist Intarweb Kinky Secks and Blowjob, RadFem, Sexpos, Sex-hating Strawfem Flameup has, in addition to provoking a predictable level of outrage, and some interesting thinking and writing about power dynamics and sexual politics in and out of the bedroom, produced some of The Intarweb Soundbytes of the week, if not the month.

R. ( Read more... )

I mean, really, who needs to know about my period? It comes, heralded by a day of fatigue, crankiness, and weepiness, I suffer through a day or two of intense pain, it brings the usual messiness and discomfort, which stick around for another few days, it trails off, and I'm myself again ( Read more... )