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• Ask Language Log: "Nor did it cease to fall"

  
  Language Log — Authority: 651
  Reader KR writes: It is reported to me that in the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the following sentence appears: "The snow fell nor did it cease to fall." At the Straight Dope Message Boards some people are discussing whether the sentence is grammatical. To some it seems ungrammatical. To others it ...
  3 hours ago

• Strategy of gender fundamentalism in Afghanistan?

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 506
  (Its our great pleasure to welcome back IntLawGrrls alumna Penelope Andrews , who contributes this guest post on a critical issue also addressed in todays post just below it) As President Barack Obama prepares to give a speech this Tuesday on his administrations strategy going forward in Afghanistan , its ...
  3 hours ago

• Mike Penner, Transsexual Sportwriter, Dead of Apparent Suicide

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 682
  Mike Penner, the transsexual sportswriter briefly known as “Christine Daniels” is dead, the Los Angeles Times reports. Mike Penner, the veteran Los Angeles Times sportswriter who made international headlines in 2007 when he announced he was transsexual and began working under the byline “Christine ...
  4 hours ago

• All a Little Girl Wants for Christmas

  
  girlstoys — Authority: 116
  Hmmmm…I hope not! Hopefully if you are raising a little girl, you are raising her to want more than to have her very own cleaning trolley for Christmas! I stumbled on this little toy for ...
  5 hours ago

• Lilavatis European Daughters

  
  nanopolitan — Authority: 501
  Women in Science : For much of human history, women were officially excluded from the scientific realm. However, in spite of their invisibility in the history narrative, this did not mean that science was exclusively a man’s world. Many women, throughout the centuries, have managed to overcome their ...
  8 hours ago

• What is it that makes a woman?

  
  Femulate — Authority: 132
  For his final year degree show at London South Bank University, Lee Slaymaker asks, "What is it that makes a woman? Or for that matter a man? Gender is often argued to be a social construction, free of the constraints of biological sex, with the result being that the term ‘woman’ may just as easily be applied to a ...
  9 hours ago

• Two lovers entwined pass me by…

  
  ?? What Japan Thinks — Authority: 425
  …and heaven knows I’m ragingly horny now, as Morrissey never did sing , which serves by way of an introduction to this survey from goo Ranking into what moments make you wish you yourself were madly in love, for both men and women . Demographics Between the 23rd and 26th of October 2009 1,162 members of the ...
  11 hours ago

• Ovarian Cysts

  
  The Smart Pounder — Authority: 128
  What are ovarian cysts? A cyst is a little balloon filled with air or fluid on one of the ovaries, which then exerts pressure on the right or left side of the lower abdomen. These cysts can be painful. Besides the pain in the lower abdomen, some other symptoms are: erratic, painful periods, often with much uterine ...
  11 hours ago

• Car culture: Some snapshots

  
  Toban Black — Authority: 100
       Automobile branding —      Little drivers —      “Hot Wheels” and “Power Race” toys — An urban design model —      Energy drinks — An ad about ‘healthy’ ‘male’ sexuality ========= Two of these photos were taken in Toronto, ...
  11 hours ago

• The Border House: Breaking Down Borders in Gaming

  
  Acid for Blood — Authority: 93
  I joined forces with a group of cool people to start a feminist-friendly and inclusive group gaming and virtual worlds blog. After weeks of planning, setup, and flurries of emails all around,  The Border House  is now up and running. The majority of group gaming blogs tend to be exclusively run by, written by, and ...
  11 hours ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  12 hours ago

• Hungary: Violence “Behind Doors”

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 721
  “At least one woman a week dies in Hungary as a result of domestic violence,” said Krisztina Morvai to the Central Europe Review in 2001, when she had published her book “Terror in the Family,” while working as the director of the office of the Hungarian Womens and Childrens Rights Foundation (now she is ...
  13 hours ago

• Bangladesh: Hijra Dance Festival

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 721
  Ashok Deb at LGBTI Bangladesh blog posts videos of a Hijra dance Competition in Dhaka.
  14 hours ago

• The End of History or a History of the End?

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 458
  A few years ago, Francis Fukuyama was widely criticized for his book claiming that mankind had seen “ The End of History .” Fukuyama contended that liberal democracy had won the debate over which system was best and, therefore, there was necessary no more “moving forward” for man’s social order. While ...
  19 hours ago

• Their Bodies, Our Games [Weekend Reader]

  
  Kotaku — Authority: 822
  That picture above poses an interesting question to Massivelys Seraphina Brennan. Why, she wonders, is the knee-jerk reaction to get bent out of shape about a buxom, indiscreetly clothed woman in a video game, but not a ripped, stripped-to-the-waist man? Moreover, Brennans commentary seems to ask why ...
  19 hours ago

• Whitman Tries Courting Women In California Governor Race

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 164
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As Meg Whitman has been introducing herself to California voters, she retells a line that usually generates a chuckle: “The next governor of California needs to know exactly what SHE believes.” The statement conveys the kind of confidence the former eBay executive displayed in her ...
  19 hours ago

• Beyond the Binary

  
  this ain't livin' — Authority: 536
  copyright meloukhia ( A slightly different version of part of this post has appeared at FWD. ) I know that many of my readers fall within the gender binary, identifying as either male or female, and thus, they may not think, often, about what it’s like to be nonbinary. This is not their fault; for example, I’m ...
  19 hours ago

• Tiger Woods: Injuries Caused by Wife Not Car Accident

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 559
  CNN is still reporting that Tiger Woods was injured from a late night car accident, but TMZ reports that the injuries were instead inflicted by Tiger Woods wife. As the story goes, it was talk of another woman that drove Elin Nordegren to pick up a golf club and pursue her cheating golf champion of a husband: ...
  20 hours ago

• Women know more about gadgets? Not in my house

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  The news that women are better at gadgets, and men spend more time in the kitchen, comes as a surprise to Jemima Lewis.
  20 hours ago

• Open Forum: How Do You Self-Identify?

  
  Queers United — Authority: 477
  Im bringing this post back because it was so popular and Id like to get more of an idea of where my readers are coming from and who they are. It would be interesting to know how most people who participate here identify. Dont feel the need to classify but if you wish to opine... Sexual Orientation: Are you gay, ...
  21 hours ago

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