Why Strong Female Characters Are Bad for Women -- an insightful look at women characters that are made "strong" in all the wrong ways ( Read more... )

From the linkety-linkety post yesterday, and my thoughts/experiences:

And I'm probably going to spend most of my evening wading through all the interconnected posts here; it's a big topic; complicated and well-worth examining.
Is Hooking Up Good for Girls? -- I'm especially impressed by her update, which links to posts that really rip into her ( Read more... )

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Why Do Women Have to Go to Clinics for Abortions?

Four husbands under Islam
A Saudi woman courts controversy by fantasizing about polyandry

But someone else's post reminded me that I'd meant to.

I can't even express how hysterical (hmm, interesting choice of word, there) I find it that there are researchers currently trying to argue the g-spot is basically mythical. Wowza. I did, in fact, burst out laughing when I first ran across Body Impolitic's take on the whole ridiculous mess. ( Read more... )

We have antis wearing similar vests at our clinics. At least in our case they're a different color (theirs are red, ours are yellow). It does indeed seriously confuse the patients and make a stressful situation even worse. As does their tactic of using common traffic hand-signals to get people to react automatically, and stop right where they ( Read more... )

Finishing up clearing out email now that I'm home:

Canon and Sheep Shit: Why We Fight.
I hate the Doctor Who canon like Dawkins hates God.

Like him, I'm convinced the target of my animus doesn't exist, but that doesn't stop me spending half my life writing about how dreadful it is. (from marnanel)

Road Kill: It's Fresh, It's Organic, It's Free -- ( Read more... )

Yup, more. (also, as a note, after this I will be following only my nearest and dearest for the next five days at least, and probably longer -- I'll really only have access via b'berry until Sunday night, though)

Bart described it as a "piece of shit racist gem" -- I couldn't agree more. Way to make your side look like moronic assholes without ( Read more... )

My recent surge in keeping up with LJ and with posting a lot of links has to do with a new email organization plan I'm using. Now that I get all a hundred or so post notifications a day from LJ (I've set tracking on a lot of people), it's much easier to tag a particular notification as something I want to go back and link to. The sudden influx of ( Read more... )