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Oh we are doing animal myths? Killer whales aren't whales, and don't kill anybody either.
I've imagined Superman as a little old arthritic man picking up an ocean liner between thumb and forefinger. One more…
I think you’re underestimating the skill it takes to get a really satisfying grass field using a grass brush. If…
And when domesticated dogs are in a pack, the alpha can be female as well as male.
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Category Archives: Gender and the Body
Resistance To Female Genital Cutting On The Rise In Egypt
There’s a good article in the NY Times on the growing and vibrant anti-Female Genital Cutting ((AKA Female Circumcision, Female Genital Surgery, AKA Female Genital Mutilation or FGM.)) movement in Egypt in the Times. (Curtsy: Feministe and Sly Civilian). Previous … Continue reading
Posted in Gender and the Body
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Review: No Future For You: Part 1 (SPOILERS)
I’m in. I was undecided about whether the comic book was ‘Buffy’. I accepted it was cannon, Joss says goes. But I just wasn’t sure whether I was going to treat it like Buffy. I’m not a comic book person, … Continue reading
Abortions also make women skinnier….
The Health Select Committee has just recommended extending paid parental leave to six months, to encourage breast feeding. As a supporter of paid parental leave (or, more accurately, as someone who believes that paid parental leave doesn’t go nearly far … Continue reading
If only people would just die of the shame like they're supposed to
While I write a bit about bodies, fat and ‘the obesity epidemic’ I don’t write that much about the health aspects of this. Mostly because I largely find them irrelevant. Other people can do very good jobs of proving that … Continue reading
Posted in Fat, fat and more fat, Gender and the Body
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What could be more of a challenge?
Project Runway has got everything you’d want in a reality show, interesting challenges, weird people and a look at a different world. In the most recent episode here in NZ the challenge was to design for another contestant’s mother or … Continue reading
A Killer Whale ate me!