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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.

Comments

[arianhwyvar.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The article made me kind of irritated and uncomfortable; it seemed to me to be saying or include a number of people saying: 'hey! We [partially, vaguely] mitigated one factor affecting why girls don't do as well as boys in science/math, and there were still a lot more boys who were really good at it -- so that must mean it's biologically built in!' And my thought was: while you're trying to mitigate that one factor, which did make some difference, those girls are still getting all the other crap from society about what they're supposed to be or not supposed to be interested in, and that crap about what they're supposed to value and how they're supposed to act from everyone, including their friends and their families, and you think that all factors are now compensated for so if girls really can be as good as boys at this, they would now demonstrate it with the numbers?

I also thoroughly agree with you on the massive effect of assumptions about women's role with regard to raising children. Even if you are super-progressive, fighting against that is really hard.