Time Magazine has a special issue out on romance. The articles are rather silly for the most part, but just as I was getting annoyed at the heterosexual monogamous assumptions in them, bless their hearts they actually has an article looking at the differences among gay, lesbian and straight couples. Nice ( Read more... )

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While I welcomed it when I started skating, I'm now irked by the convention that male skaters must wear pants and not tights. It's more than a convention, in fact, since International Skating Union (ISU) rule 500 specifies:2. At ISU Championships, the Olympic Winter Games and International Competitions, the clothing of the Competitors must be ( Read more... )

Radio is having a call-in show about women in positions of power, alluding to Hillary Clinton. The usual ideas surfaced, including one woman who said that as a feminist, she won't vote for Clinton because she occupies the narcissistic space that's supposed to be reserved for men. Yeah, OK, whatever ( Read more... )

Poor Johnny Weir's the King of Chess again. "King of Chess" is the name and theme of his new short program, which is meant to highlight more masculine choreography for him. There's a subtle irony in the fact that the king, although crucial to the outcome of the game, is severely limited as a gamepiece by the rules: he can only move a single ( Read more... )

The bbc reported on an Indian 800m runner being stripped of her Asian games silver medal after failing a gender test. What really surprised me was that in a radio interview, a doctor pointed out that the test is no longer genetic. Now I understand that a certain genotype can be expressed differently in the body, so genetics *alone* is not ( Read more... )