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Oh, too much time on my hands. More breastfeeding icons - take, share, point people to them. Default, non-default, customise...
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I think countries where politicians regularly and unironically say that "this is the greatest country in the world" are fundamentally different from countries where that doesn't happen. I'm beginning to think this is the root of my Not Getting US Politics to the extent that I don't. This whole "The world is looking to us! We must count every vote ( Read more... ) -
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I thought I should really just post to note that just as I sat down to plan our consultation on the Sexual Health Strategy, look what came on my random playlist ( Read more... ) -
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Um, I hate to sound like a typical crisis-having journaller, but: would anyone be hugely inconvenienced if this journal went entirely friends-only? I have codes to give out if people want to create blank accounts to read it, but, well, what I've written here is being used against me at work, so something's got to get sorted out. Anyone who reads ( Read more... ) -
Bible buying
So, I want to buy a Bible. There are many and various reasons for this, that I'll maybe go into another time- anyway, rest assured that I'm still the heathen you all know and love. No theism happening any time soon ( Read more... ) -
gender gap/ exam results
Every year, I get all confused about the gender gap in exam results. On the one hand, I want to be dismissive, because, despite the fact that girls do so much better, men still get paid more, and there does seem to be less attention paid to that. So, really, every time girls do better, whatever they're doing better at suddenly counts for nothing ( Read more... ) -
"women's work" ranting
Patricia Hewitt, Minister for Trade and Industry, and also, as a pin-money job, Minister for Women:
"[W]omen are still more often found in low-status, low-paid jobs with little opportunity for career development and can find it harder to get promotion than men."
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