Street Luv

New List, everybody!
So, the whole street harassment blogathon of 2009 has got me thinking about a new list. (When I die, they will find me under a pile of lists, one of them being a list of improbable ways I might die).
On the one hand, goddamn I hate knowing that once I leave my house, [...]

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The Daily Dose of Sexism

New feature for this blog: the Daily Dose of Sexism. A list of the little daily indignities that come from not presenting the right genitalia in the right place at the right time.
1. At Wal-Mart the other day, my bear was looking for a wireless router. I wandered into the HDTV aisle, since we’re also [...]

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The Pill

The Feministing blog put up this request recently:
Check out this author’s query from Elaine Tyler May, amazing feminist historian and big fan of feministing. (She’s the one who wrote feminist classic Homeward Bound, that I reviewed alongside Faludi last month.) Please, please take some time and respond!
The Pill is often considered one of the most [...]

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Looking back

This started out as a comment on Just A Girl’s post, but got huge and unwieldy and I didn’t want to vomit on her blog. Just A Girl used to be a nude model, and has recently quit. I liked her when she was a nude model (both the blogging and, well, I’ll admit I [...]

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Female traits

In relation to my last post, I was trying to dig up a study done on psychiatrists and psychologists. Unfortunately, I can’t find which book it’s in, and googling “gender” and “psychologists” is an effort in futility or internet-mind-suck. I’ll keep looking.
The general gist of the study is this: psychiatric professionals were given identical case [...]

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