Jen is a writer and web designer/developer in Columbus, Ohio. She spends too much time on Twitter at @antiheroine.
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Sorry I’m late, darlings, I just got home from the dentist! Hey, look at this: the UK Advertising Standards Authority has decided that an offensive transphobic commercial is, in fact, offensive! Good to see the President doubling down on his big reveal last week, although someone might want to inform him that we have not [...]
Like an increasing number of people, I identify as an atheist/agnostic (depending on the day). As such, I don’t believe that human are imbued with an immortal soul. I’ll use the phrase “selling your soul” to mean selling out or turning on what you believe in, but I don’t take it literally. Last week I [...]
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Hoy les voy a hablar sobre la microbiota de la vagina, específicamente sobre qué es, para qué la quieres y qué puede pasar cuando arrasas con ella. No, no hay un esfuerzo concertado entre los escépticos de este blog de tener un monólogo de la vagina todos lo miércoles, pero simplemente no me pude resistir [...]
För ovanlighetens skull vill jag inte berätta för er vad jag tror. Jag vill att ni ska förklara för mig vilka mekanismer som gör att man beter sig så här. Jag sitter här med halvöppen mun och skakar på huvudet, jag VILL förstå men jag kan bara inte. Av @pre_it på Twitter blev jag uppmärksammad [...]
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Blakut
02.13.2012
They’re not all lost.For example, there are damascus steel swords around, and studies have been made of their material. It seems that Vanadium and other “impurities” in the ore from where the steel was extracted played an important role in the metal’s qualities. http://tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9809/Verhoeven-9809.html
masqueofred
02.13.2012
Regarding the gay marriage and biology link, I will definitely be bringing those points up the next time I find myself debating a bigot.
Skepotter
02.13.2012
Presumably, 999/1000 gays have as unambiguous genes and naughty bits as 999/1000 straights. It’s not the bits they have that get so many people into frothy self rightiousness, it’s the naughty bits they are attracted to. I don’t think the biology argument will carry much weight with the frothies.
israelkwalker
02.13.2012
The biology blog really reminded me of the old King Missile song “Gay/Not Gay”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiPyMciRWQQ
Probably that’s just me though.
anthroslug
02.13.2012
While I think there’s some valuable info in the sex article, my favorite thing about it is the realization that kinkier/more partners does not necessarily equal better or deeper or somehow more intellectually fulfilled than “vanilla” sex.
I have never had much of an opinion, positive or negative, regarding people who enjoy kinky sex or polyamory or open relationships. I have, however, become quite tired of being berated by people who are in favor of any or all of these because I am not interested in engaging in them.
I understand that this attitude probably is borne our of defensiveness – I have been in situations where I assume I will be judged and therefore I tend to want to “strike first” – but it is nonetheless tiresome to have someone lecturing me about how a wide range of sexual interests and expression are fine and great, provided that it isn’t what the person doing the lecturing considers boring or uninteresting.
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