BurningbirdIf you know San Francisco than you know the Castro district. It’s colorful, interesting, lively, unique, and the center of gay activities in a city that’s known to be very gay friendly. All in all, it’s a fun place to walk, shop, whatever, because the people in the area are about the friendliest there are […]
Meryl and Mike Golby are both giving their opinions based on this term “moral equivalency”. Since neither is referencing my weblog, I am assuming that this effort on both their parts is related to something else other than my posts of this morning. Update: I hadn’t planned on pursuing this issue because “moral equivalency” is a lose/lose situation […]
Andrea wrote an extremely thoughtful discourse on why she doesn’t like to label herself as a feminist. Her posting follows from a link to another equally thoughtful posting on the “feminist” label at Anita’s. As we’ve seen, the word “feminist” brings with it so much baggage, good and bad. When I say I am a feminist, and […]
“I’m not a feminist” Yesterday I provided two definitions of what a feminist is: one from Merrian-Webster and one of my own. Since then, I’ve seen “I am not a feminist” repeated, in particular at the Blogsisters weblog. I’ve also heard people say that they prefer to use “humanist” rather than feminist. Shannon did an excellent recap of much […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I received a BS in computer science, the first one within a specific sub-discipline (programming languages and compiler design) that was issued at the college I attended. I also received a BA in psychology — emphasis on industrial psychology. I took courses for both disciplines at the same time, usually […]