World Cup Soccer Stats Erase The Sport’s Most Dominant Players: Women
I’ve been adding the “Men’s” qualifier for decades because accuracy.
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Hyper-male Nuts, Meet Shell
This post mostly exists to link to an excellent article by John Beckett: Dude, It’s You. If a woman rejects you, maybe …
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Honorific Evolution
Over on hellogiggles.com, Kit Steinkellner asks, Is It Time We Stopped Using The Word “Miss?” The use of honorifics is something that has long been …
Read more...Why I Write “Strong Female Characters”
As someone who also tends to write “strong female characters”, I applaud this article. via Why I Write “Strong Female Characters”.
Read more...Soraya Chemaly: A Message to Girls About Religious Men Who Fear You
Fear lives in the shadows of our hearts. It’s easy to exist there, close to the ground, so you don’t have far …
Read more...What Science Fiction Can Teach Us About Communicating With Other Cultures
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention my book, Que Será Serees, in this discussion (and I didn’t want to do a self-promotion …
Read more...Why women really are better at almost everything: Q&A with author Dan Abrams (shine.yahoo.com)
I’ve been saying this for almost all of my life. It’s pretty obvious if you pay attention. Why women really are better …
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Wonder Woman TV Show Stalled
Another creative lamb has been sacrificed on the altar of a Wonder Woman project. Maybe they should let me take a crack at it.
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Studpidity
Sometimes happy accidents create brand new words that fill and hitherto unnoticed gap. Such is the case with “studpidity”.
Read more...Jeff’s Take On His Platonic Friendship With Juliet (Slate)
Some people complain that only women talk about platonic friendships and that men are, essentially, faking it. Well, it ain’t always so. …
Read more...Why the Very Concept of Male-Female Friendship Makes People Uncomfortable (Slate)
It was famously said in the movie, When Harry Met Sally: Harry Burns: You realize of course that we could never be …
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Geek and Gamer Girls Are Unquestionably Cool
A group of geek and gamer women calling themselves Team Unicorn released a video parody in praise of women like them. It’s …
Read more...Michael Messner: Dropping the Ball on Covering Women’s Sports
<blockquote>When it comes to coverage of sports on television news and highlights shows, if it’s male, it not only leads — it …
Read more...Nix Women’s Hockey? Jacques Rogge Sounds Sexist
Actually, with a resume of softball- and women’s ski-jump- nixing, he’s acting sexist, too. There are many lopsided sports in the Olympics, …
Read more...Write Like a Man | Salon.com
It really annoys me that this is an issue still. When will the (overwhelmingly male) road-blockers stop being such poopy-heads? Why are …
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The XY Problem in Sports
The spector of gender development disorder complicates things mightily when it comes to athletic competition. For one South African runner, this has created a bit of a problem.
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Updating English (again)
Strict grammarians aside, I like to think that many people understand that English is a vibrant and adaptive language. We’ve entered into an amazing era of linguistic experimentation and adaptation. To that end, I’d like to once again throw in my 2¢ worth
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Genderless Pronouns – Ey, Em, and Eir
English changes all the time. Our standard pronoun structure has served us well, but it does have weaknesses. It’s time that we fill the gap of not having a non-gendered pronoun. Whether in academic writing, or just because we want to be inclusively generic, ey/em/eir fit the bill easily.
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