Archive for August, 2007
Double Your Consciousness, Double Your Fun? Ain't No Thang.
So I was browsing my own blogroll the other day (yeah, that’s the thing down to the left), and I stumbled across this really interesting piece on double consciousness at, you guessed it, Double Consciousness. You’ll have to read it for yourself. Most of my education about double consciousness comes from my very wise Black [...]
Posted: August 23rd, 2007 under Blogroll, Native American, black, black studies, blog, chromosome, consciousness, double, gene, genetic, genetics, objectivity, professor, race, social construction, white, y chromosome.
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Out of Reach of Children: The Degradation of Women, and Accepting It
So I was talking to my friend about porn the other night. She said that the most successful relationship she ever had was one in which she was “chill” about all of the things that might previously have caused her jealousy: her boyfriend’s tendency to slap her friends’ asses, and his giant porn collection. “I [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2007 under Pornography, ass, behavior, boyfriend, children, culture, degradation, degrading, depression, double standard, eating disorders, gender, jealousy, macho, masculinity, out, porn, rape, sex, sexual, sexuality, women.
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I Was A Teenage Feminist…
Last semester, I reluctantly acknowledged that I was not a biology major. I did this after I had long ceased taking classes in the biology department that were required for the major and didn’t pique my interest. I didn’t think of myself as a non-Bio major, but I didn’t think of myself as a non-non [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2007 under Angier, E-Z Bake Oven, Natalie, National Institutes of Health, Woman: An Intimate Geography, biology, chemical, college, default, department, discrimination, education, english, equality, evolutionary, female, feminist, gender, gender bias, gender equality, genetic, genetics, hormone, institution, interdisciplinary, major, male, objective, objectivity, old boys, organismic, professor, reproduction, reproductive system, sociobiologists, sociobiology, sociology, student, syllabus, testes, women's health, zygote.
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Escape from Planet Monday
riiight. i’m escaping from the internet again. see ya on monday.
Posted: August 15th, 2007 under 32 flavors.
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my life be like ooh ah…….. and gettin' meta
So let’s get meta. That’s the parlance of the blogging world, which I joined by accident because I signed up for a class about pop culture last semester. Metablogging is blogging about blogging, as this blog is. It’s called ‘meta’ for short, both by the software that supports the blog itself, and by bloggers in [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2007 under Indian, adolescent, anger, angry, asterisks, babe, cat, chocha, differences, emo, emoticons, gender, girl, grammar, hot, hunk, meta, poetry.
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