William Safire explains why "woman politician" sounds more patronizing than "female politician, and even touches on why I think the former is increasing in frequency.

Putting same sex marriage into historical context. I don't know where I got this link; if you IMed it to me, let me know?

The indelicacies of satirizing female politicians.

Guess ( Read more... )

That was an excellent evening at the Horse Brass. It was an evening full of hilarity, shaudenfreude* and potentially awkward conversations rendered amusing by the booze.

*Don't take your date to a pub you know your friends frequent, for they will spy on you and mock the entire time.

And now for a links post.

Personal (Is Political)
Why does ( Read more... )

WA's domestic partnership bill passes house and senate. Sure, it's still unequal, but I'm in favor of legal recognition in any form.

In other political news, a member of the Finnish parliament is reaching out to his Klingon constituents.

This is more history than politics, but I still am amused by the Pig War.Your ethology link of the night: How ( Read more... )

how is this ad sexist? Is it the fast=easy connection?
or this one? Is it because Miss Piggy is a femme fatale?

Behind the scenes of the Oscars with Ellen, as seen on Monday's Ellen show.

Buff women in movies.

Excuse me, I need to go lift weights now.

What is your squid quotient? (mine's 170! I beat Pharyngula!)

In an alternate timeline, biochemistry could look like this.

Late for Valentine's: the neurology and anthropology behind love.

A psych study reinforces what feminist blogs have been saying all along: sexed up images in pop culture call attention to our own inadequacies and lead to ( Read more... )

Clara on the Indecision '08 Lineup

Mombian on a new study showing that adoptive parents are more giving and involved than biological parents

Why it's good to be single: arguments based around negative aspects of lesbian pop culture.

raisingirl5, this one's for you: Scarlett Johanssen in a Justin Timberlake music video. Timberlake is an essential aspect of ( Read more... )

Size diversity among athletes
Gay men love Xena? Is it the beefcake?
Lyrics to Voyager's theme song, because I've been watching a lot of Voyager lately and it will seriously affect how you hear the song.
Teacher faces 40 years for endangering minors via spyware and technological ignorance. RIDICULOUS.
Do you read Feministing? What do you think of ( Read more... )

From the 29th Carnival of Feminists:
* resources for girls in science
* an engineering freshman's wide-eyed disbelief of gender bias in the sciences and Zuska's reaction (side note: the physics prof who was on my orals board said she didn't experience overt sexism and misogyny until grad school ( Read more... )

A wonderful thing to come home to.

Oh man! Niko Tinbergen was Richard Dawkins' doctoral adviser? How many hardcore points do you get if your doctoral adviser was as influential in his field as the guy who came up with the four questions that structure ethology ( Read more... )

BSG links:
Pharyngula asks his readers to convince him to watch BSG.
The intro to the A-Team. Notice anything...interesting? (Note of interest, Dirk Benedict, the guy in the clip in question, played Starbuck in the original BSG. So there's context to it.)
It's a music video love letter to the new series. I got this from the SCIFI CHANNEL ( Read more... )