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more about #gendergaps more comments → girlarchaeologist: I can provide anecdotal evidence to back up the driving in the snow poll. Trucks blow past me on a regular basis. I feel like I should have a sign o... more » BytheSea: Advance doesn't matter. If your book sells over the advance, then you're paid royalties for the overage. However, for the normal author, if your book... more » gherkinfiend: And now you know why the UK has around a 6% rape conviction rate on a good year...the police only worry about doing something wrong when it might affe... more » lucylooo: Slow down in bad weather? I can't count the number of times I"ve had some jackass blow by me doing 140 on the 401 in near-whiteout conditions. It's ... more » curiousgeorgiana: In addition to being worthy of a larger advance, Secretary Clinton's book was actually readable. more » phantom lady: soooooo.... being born a girl is a side effect? more » Kate- Kate: I like that raising the chance of having a girl is known as a "side effect". Really no one would ever know they are having a girl vs. boy because of m... more » MargaretMoony: God, stories about people who don't know they're pregnant until they give birth terrify me! I mean, they made a whole tv series about it so it could ... more » clevernamehere: The Sacred Heart assault case is interesting. I saw an AP piece on it where they had assumed it was a gang rape and then had to re-edit when the foun... more » Ailatan: "I wish I could be more artful in the way I say things." so you're actually praising yourself for your honesty? more » hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE: er... i never had any preconceived notions about "butch" except that maybe they were tomboyish. also, i have a total crush on rachel maddow. i have ... more » JerkoftheMonth is changing her name!: I very much support the idea that gender-identity should be self-defined and separated from stereotypical language. Why then do particular LGBTs emp... more » BytheSea: I didn't know most of these words existed. i didn't know people were already describing the thoughts I had for myself. Thank you for posting this. more » Pantra: When I came out 20 years ago, both butch and femme were seen as .... intellectually lacking, shall we say, in my queer community. It was considered to... more » Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Okay. I am way out of my depth here, but -- since when is one's intellectual capacity tied to one's sexuality? more » -
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On The Shelf: Hillary Vs. Sarah • Study: Police Ignore Rape Claims If Victim Is Drunk
• Sad, sad news: Going Rogue beat Hillary Clinton's memoir in sales with 700,000 to Clinton's 600,000. However, the awesome Secretary of State received a much bigger advance of $8 mil, while Palin was only offered five. • More » -
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It's Possible To Be A Butch Intellectual, And Other Lessons From "Butch Voices"
An NPR piece on last weekend's Bay Area "Butch Voices" conference shows that female-born butches face some of the same stereotypes men do — and some very different ones.
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Women's Equality Day: Not There Yet
Today is Women's Equality Day, marking the 89th anniversary of women's suffrage. In some ways, we've come so far, but in other ways, we have such a long way to go. More »
