Can someone help me out? Google seems to be failing me. There's this Barenaked Ladies song on their holiday album I like, but I can't find a translation of part of it. It may or may not be a tradiational song...I dunno. The song is called "Hanukkah Blessings". The lyrics I want a translation of ( Read more... )

Erik has said to me before that he tends to assume that women he meets in graduate school have anxiety issues. It's a useful stereotype because, in his experience, women in graduate school have anxiety issues. Some are big piles of anxiety, some are more subtly so, but for the most part, women seem to be more anxious than men ( Read more... )

We used to place a game, back in undergrad. Try to come up with the person who would get the most points on an affirmative action application. The winner was always something like a half black half Latina pregnant lesbian in a wheelchair. Pretty terrible game, eh? But one of those 'not totally PC so it's funny' sorts of games. It's interesting ( Read more... )

It's funny that we have an idea of what normal is.  The more I think about it, the more I think it's such a silly idea.  No one is normal ( Read more... )

I'm pretty open about asexuality.  It's easy to be, seeing as how I'm not A.  I try to find places to bring it up, knowing that I will end up answering a lot of personal questions about a community I'm not in.  I try to bring it up, despite knowing just how incredibly detailed and graphic the questions will be.  It might seem prideful, and indeed ( Read more... )

Erik asked me today whether "transman" meant someone who identifies as male or as female.  And it was brought up that the terminology is confusing, and often it's hard to ask because you get you head bitten off for asking wrong.  And I thought maybe it would be good to talk a bit about what the terms mean ( Read more... )

Dear Main Stream News Organizations,

Hermaphrodite is generally considered a phenomenally insulting term.  If you insist on writing about that poor girl, at least don't insult an entire community of people in the process.

I thought this was a really interesting article.  There's there parts, so make sure to read them all.  (Also, she's got one titled "So, are we having sex yet?" which I really love ( Read more... )

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203622/Ill-die-endgame-says-Terry-Pratchett-law-allow-assisted-suicides-UK.html

Do you ever feel like you know where in your brain a thought occurs?
Anyone know why that happens?  Is that really where the thought is?