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Patty has a cold. :(

Also, Buffy and Angel? Not here yet.

Finished my WIAD story.

Can we talk about Lady Gaga's new video? Because I could. All day. Not only is it a response to a certain era of Madonna, but it also goes to a lot of strange, strange uncomfortable places, the fascist references in its physical language being close to the top of the list. It's incredibly cool, smart stuff. There needs to be a Gaga Studies Journal, that's all I'm saying.

From all of my friendslist to all of yours: liljacks_corner is a community that has been set up for fan creators to make G-rated stuff for an eight-year-old boy named Jack who has just lost his legs; one of the only things that cheers him up right now is Doctor Who. He's only seen the first two seasons of the New series. What's being requested is a story about a little boy, much like the one it's for, going on an adventure with the Doctor and Rose. Details at the community.

Ready to start hollering? Daring to discuss women in science.

The Century Athletic Club.

New York now has an AllStaints Spitalfields.

Does anyone know more about this: is Judy Shepard's book homophobic? Accusations vague, scenario murky. Bwah? Anyone read it?

Didn't know this: Stephanie Flores, the Peruvian woman van der Sloot has reportedly confessed to killing, was a lesbian.

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[rackmount.livejournal.com]

can i just say amen to that last comment of yours. even when feminists start in on women and earth/emotions/mysticism/etc, it makes my 21st century brain go into overdrive. hello, self-ghettoizing.

he's totally right about tenure. we're at Princeton, at which the admin has tried in a number of ways to equalize the tenure/family problem, without success. lesser administrators (department chairs, etc) find ways to continue punishing both male and female faculty members for having families (female faculty disproportionately).

in fact, here, you get an "extra" year to get tenure for each child you have, whether you are male or female. good idea, right? unfortunately, that just means that you ahve to get 6 years of sprinting done instead of 5 (when the idea is that you should have 6 years to get 5 years of sprinting done, so that you have a year to devote to being a parent.

by sprinting, i mean that my husband was working on the order or 80 hours a week during my son's first year. they wanted to "give" him an "extra" year, and i insisted he not take it, because i wanted him to be part of my son's first few years at least. the policy is a good idea with bad execution. i think that's common.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

lesser administrators (department chairs, etc) find ways to continue punishing both male and female faculty members for having families

*sigh* Too true. Much too true.