Recovered from the Wayback Machine. President Bush has spoken out against gay marriages , a move applauded by religious conservatives in this country and elsewhere. Some would say that he’s doing so in order to keep the loyalty of the fundamentalists within the Republican party. I can’t help thinking that it’s also because he’s trying to redirect […]
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The importance of supporting diversity
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Girl-ick-ism
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Halley has two new posts on girlism, related to the release of Charlie’s Angels 2 and Legally Blonde 2, and both are wide of the mark. In the first she writes: In both movies, the younger women call on a network of their girlfriends to save the day. In both movies […]
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Marriage Bashing?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Halley was kind enough to link back to me and Liz yesterday after we referenced her README post. However, she added a follow-up note about her post that caused me to choke on my morning coffee: I guess I want to add that README is not about male-bashing, since I’m crazy for […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ezra Pound has been under discussion lately, and not just in Loren’s analysis of Pound’s Cantos — his lifelong work. Jonathon also discussed Pound but from a different perspective. He wrote about the dilemma between Ezra Pound the poet, and Ezra Pound the anti-Semitic traitor. Specifically, the issue had to do with Pound being nominated […]
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Women in IT Stuff
Recovered from the Wayback machine. update This discussion in Kevin’s comments has quickly degenerated into how women and men are different, physically, and how women can’t do math and engineering. I would stay to uphold the fight against this attitude, but I have to go to work. Doing the thing I should not be able […]