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Rules for answering the question:- If you're not a feminist but still care about gender issues, I don't mind you answering or critiquing it however you want.
- If you have a hard time answering, feel free to discuss why.
- I'm pretty curious about what people think, so feel free to write a billion page essay and post it here, email me, or ( Read more... )
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Feminism pt. 3
Rules for answering the question:- If you're not a feminist but still care about gender issues, I don't mind you answering or critiquing it however you want.
- If you have a hard time answering, feel free to discuss why.
- I'm pretty curious about what people think, so feel free to write a billion page essay and post it here, email me, or ( Read more... )
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Feminism pt. 2
Rules for answering the question:- If you're not a feminist but still care about gender issues, I don't mind you answering or critiquing it however you want.
- If you have a hard time answering, feel free to discuss why.
- I'm pretty curious about what people think, so feel free to write a billion page essay and post it here, email me, or ( Read more... )
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Feminism pt 1
Emi asked me the other day if a certain book from the feminist canon was worth reading. I suppose it depends on one's perspective...there are a billion different types of feminism, afterall. So I have a group of questions I'm going to be asking, to get a feel for what kind of feminists we all are...and possibly narrow it down better for myself.
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Female representation in national legislative bodies:
Rwanda (highest in the world) 49% Sweden, South Africa, Namibia,
48%-40%
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Iceland
39%-30%
New Zealand, Austria, Pakistan, Canada, China
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Possibly a book reccomendation
Finished reading Woman on the Edge of Time just now.
I have decided that the entire genres of dis/utopia stories, and psychological thrillers need to have a new way of ending books. I may need to go back to reading the post-modernist, self-conscious, mod-podgy, pretentious story-telling books for a while to get my footing back.
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the Bloods Product Guide
Bad Menstrual Cups
Yes, I sing the praises of menstrual cups whenever I get the chance, even in polite company. But I absolutely hate "Instead cups." Have you heard about these? Gah! They miss almost every fucking point of the whole cup experience.
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Genocide Remembrance Day
Today is Armenia's Genocide Remembrance Day. Between 1915-1923, an estimated 1.2-1.5 million Armenians were were killed. Most were "relocated" and died of harsh conditions (including starvation) or brought to one of the many concentration camps to be burned, drowned, poisoned, or otherwise tortured. The genocide "officially" began on April 24 of ( Read more... ) -
My upstairs neighbours
Sometimes I think "boy, those people upstairs are really loud. Don't they ever go to bed? It's like 2:30 and they're still moving around!" And then I remember I don't have neighbours or even housemates. I have a cat. And mice. I'm still not accustomed to this living situation. -
Location, location, location!
My newest favourite thing is livejournal's "current location" field. They did an exceptionally lousy job of predicting what people would write. And before finding out, they went to all the trouble of integrating it with google maps.
So now you have this entertaining game of clicking on their location link and watching google struggle to find ( Read more... )