ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

This Jezebel post   made me think about something a little bit wider and more serious.  First, here's the relevant quote from the post:...

Today is the day, I think!  Ten whole years wasted.  Down the drain.  Never to come back.   Aggro, unpleasant learning.   But also fun, pur...

This is not a gender gap.  It's the gap which Lululemon company's founder Chip Wilson thinks should exist between women's thig...

Photo:  Pentti Taskinen This is a really fascinating story, from Finland.  Pentti Taskinen, a 61-year-old experienced kayaker, was...

You may already have seen this today: With Republicans openly cheering for a low voter turnout and passing laws restricting the right to ...

So the British Guardian tells us.  The Bechdel test: You expect movie ratings to tell you whether a film contains nudity, sex, profani...

Why are the US elections held on a working day?  Why not have the polls open on Saturday and Sunday instead?  That would be much better for...

On this blog.  The majority are mine and quite a few of them still stand the test of time (says she, smugly).  Which is a good lead-in to...

I wrote about the summary of that study earlier. Now Washington Post has a very critical piece on the same study.  But it gets a few ...

I'm going to do posts about blogging and what I have learned and forgotten and so on.  You can give me presents during the week or two ...

An interesting picture of the workforce in one social media marketing company: I didn't think such places still exist.  Bros aro...

This might be a better format than speed-blogging? 1.  On pullups in the Marine Corps: Four female Marines have passed what is conside...

Today is the day when food stamp cut-backs take effect.  Among the group affected by this are as many as 900,000 US veterans and their fami...

The new anti-abortion laws can take effect right away : A federal appeals court issued a ruling Thursday reinstating most of Texas...

I write about the Zombie Trends For Women here. An odd serendipity made me read a sad post about the troubles of the progressive movemen...

It's always a fun place to visit!  This time we learn that there are "mean girls" (hard-wired mean!) because cattiness disco...

  This article , caused by the recent debate about whether women should stop drinking too much as a way to cut back on college rape at l...

Think Progress writes about this: The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine that has cut teen girls’ risk of cancer in half is less likel...

I am now making folders of material which one needs to argue with weirdos on the net.  For instance, some time ago a story about a woman wh...

bell hooks writes about the LeanIn movement.  She makes good points about many of the limitations of the LeanIn ideas (their bad fit for w...