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Quickies
Quickies: Steamed Vaginas, Sarah Palin’s Gibberish, and Real Bob’s Burgers
Gwyneth Paltrow says steam your vagina, an OB/GYN says don’t – “On today’s episode of ask the experts we pit the gynecologic advice of Gwyneth Paltrow, a consciously uncoupled actress and self-professed lifestyle expert who dabbles in vaginal health, against that of yours truly, a board certified OB/GYN who has completed a 5 year OB/GYN residency and a fellowship in…
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Guest Bloggers
Guest Post: Intersex in the Media
Editor’s Note: Check out Amy’s other pieces on what being intersexed is all about. Today’s post is about the different ways in which being intersexed has been featured in the media. ***** Last summer at CONvergence/SkepchickCon, I attended a break out session called “Not Men or Women: Everyone Else in Fiction.” The panel members explored the gender binary and ways…
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Quickies: UFO Pictures, Debunking Bulletproof Coffee, and White Privilege Classes
Here’s How The Anti-Abortion Movement Plans To Modernize Its Approach – “Speaker after speaker talked about reclaiming the language and co-opting the label of feminism for their efforts. In doing that, they emphasized the need to reach out to younger Americans.” Bulletproof Coffee: Debunking the Hot Buttered Hype – “Okay, so you’re an entrepreneur and you’ve come up with this…
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Quickies: Non-GMO Labels, Environmental Whistleblower Tyrone Hayes, and Losing the Middle Class
How Your Food Gets The ‘Non-GMO’ Label – “To receive the label, a product has to be certified as containing ingredients with less than 1 percent genetic modification. Westgate says that’s a realistic standard, while totally GMO-free is not. She says natural foods stores began the process of defining a standard, involving other interested players along the way, including consumers.…
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Quickies: GMO Potatoes, an Impossible Photograph, and Life in the Coldest Town on Earth
If a gay Mormon man marries a woman, divorce is likely, study finds – “The LDS couples profiled on TLC’s ‘My Husband Is Not Gay’ may find these statistics sobering: Marriages like theirs — same-sex attracted husbands and straight wives — are two to three times more likely to end in divorce than others. That finding and others come from…
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Quickies: Darwin Misquoted, Petting Puppies Banned, and Figuring Out the Cold Virus
‘Manslamming’: A Verb, a Gerund – “Terms that put the “man” in “portmanteau” tend to catch on because they describe a behavior that men (usually) adopt unconsciously and that women (usually) find annoying or (sometimes) offensive. They cheekily point out microaggressions—a term coined by the Harvard professor Chester Pierce in the ‘70s to describe insults inflicted on African-Americans, but extended…
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Quickies: The Latest on Anti-Vax Nonsense, (Possible) Ancient Microbial Life on Mars, and Alan Turing
Anti-Vaxxers Are Idolizing the Amish, Inexplicably – “A viral pseudoscience article claims the Plain People never get sick because they don’t get vaccinated. Actually, members of the religious sect are prone to some terrible diseases.” This Curiosity Image Suggests Microbial Life Once Existed On Mars – “It may not look like much — just an old rock with dust on…
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Quickies: Feminist Boyfriends, the Cause of Cancer, and Preventing Suicide in Trans Community
How to find a feminist boyfriend – “Few guys will proudly say no when asked if they’re feminists. Instead it’s a wholehearted yes, a lukewarm maybe or Can you define what you mean by ‘feminist,’ please? As one 32-year-old put it to The Washington Post Magazine last month: ‘I respect the movement. I’m hesitant to call myself a feminist, but…
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