Is it 2004 again?
Because I can’t think of any other reason why this article would be topical. Writing about why women’s voices are given less authority in the blogosphere, or why female bloggers face disproportionate harassment, is important. But repeating the myth that there are no female bloggers? Not helpful. This is as good of an opportunity as [...]
...read more“I’m Sorry, But We’ll Need to See Your Genitals”
Laurie and Marlene say: (Marlene Hoeber blogs regularly for Body Impolitic. This post is cross-posted to Body Impolitic.) From the Philadelphia Gay News comes this disgusting story of Kate Lynn Blatt, whose employer requested a photograph of her genitalia as a condition of continued employment. Blatt was working for Manpower, a temporary employment service. After [...]
...read moreAnti-choicers harassing women in Aurora
They’ve staked out a Safeway parking lot and they’re taking pictures of the women walking into the clinic and recording their license plate numbers. The parking lot is privately owned. Safeway doesn’t have to let them protest there. Contact Safeway/Dominick’s and tell them that allowing their property to be used for harassment, stalking and intimidation [...]
...read morea world of spheres
Imagine a slightly deflated balloon. Squeezing the air around can be entertaining for a little while, but eventually hands become tired, and the mind starts looking for something else to do. You have to squeeze one side of the balloon to fill the other side. Then, to correct, you squeeze the inflated side giving air [...]
...read moreIt’s saturday night and I’m all confessional-y
I recently visited a friend in Hyderabad. A couple of hours after I’d arrived we decided to walk to a nearby restaurant for dinner (this was evening. Eight-ish.) and we were walking along, talking about literature or gender or football or something when a man zoomed past us on his motorbike, going in the same [...]
...read moreWalking Papers
So some stuff came up in the thread about identification and gender-delineation in Illinois. I found myself making comments like this: Also, while hormones are less of a change than hormones and surgery, they’re not a trivial regimen to embark on by any means. If medical intervention is a necessary standard for seriousness–again, a different [...]
...read moreYou’re All Going Down!
I’m talking to you, XOXO posters and other anonymous insulters — just wait until your asses are in jail. Who’s laughing now, suckas?
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