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Category Archives: Sexism

Living Your Beliefs and the Practicality of Surviving

We’re facing some pretty high vet bills for a beloved kitty who is 14 and, as with many elderly cats, a free cat becomes suddenly very expensive.  And we’re already … Continue reading

September 13, 2011 · Leave a comment

Re-Post from CANOW – Schrodinger’s Rapist and Why it doesn’t say what you thought it did

This appears to have been removed from the CA NOW blog, so I thought I’d re-post it here.   Over at Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose, guest blogger Phaedra Starling wrote … Continue reading

September 5, 2011 · 1 Comment

Blogging While Female

I’ve probably posted about this before, at least I’ve alluded to things like this both here and at GeekGirlsRule.net, particularly referencing Jade Raymond or Kathy Sierra, but blogging ain’t easy … Continue reading

August 31, 2011 · 5 Comments

You know when I said I wasn’t always the poster child for HAES/Body Acceptance

My Body Acceptance is at kind of an ebb right now. I’ve been feeling meh and unattractive and unlovely for awhile now.  I know part of it is that we’ve … Continue reading

August 24, 2011 · 2 Comments

Book Review: The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg

Released in 1997, The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg was groundbreaking in its conception, a history of girls through the words in their diaries and in interviews with girls … Continue reading

August 16, 2011 · Leave a comment

Book Review: Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha

Sorry about the radio silence.  As I said over on another  blog, I thought I could keep up my blogging schedule while we moved, and I was delusional.  Yeah, I’ve … Continue reading

July 21, 2011 · Leave a comment

New Lows in Victim-Blaming

So, yeah, a cop pulls over a woman in the wee hours of the morning, gets an erection and ejaculates all over her.  She filed a report, had the DNA … Continue reading

June 27, 2011 · 2 Comments

My Philosophical Epiphanies Come in Strange Ways.

Ok, so my husband and I go to a lot of punk rock shows.  As a result we hang out with a bunch of younger people, ten or more years … Continue reading

June 15, 2011 · 1 Comment

The Very Basis of the Anti-Choice Movement is the Idea that Women Just Don’t Matter.

I have a point, and I’m bound to get there, but it’s going to be a little circuitous, so bear with me. I read a lot of Sci Fi.  A … Continue reading

June 2, 2011 · Leave a comment

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