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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 …

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 …

Geno’s Rim Revision? Ridiculous!

UConn Women’s Basketball Coach Geno Auriemma has suggested that offensive deficiencies are keeping the women’s game from growing. His solution? Lower the rims to nine feet. I have to applaud him for making one of the dumbest practical suggestions in years from someone who’s listened to.

Fantasy Armor and Lady Bits (Mad Art Lab)

I find the absurd inappropriateness more distracting than anything. It sets me to thinking about how vulnerable and/or uncomfortable the warrior is …

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 …

Grasping For Sanity in a Nation Gone Mad

I’ve written a number of articles that haven’t been put out for public consumption. You see, when the world goes mad, it can be like a minefield when you try to shine a light on it. You are never completely sure when you might take a wrong step and have everything blow up in your face. And yet, silence isn’t a viable option.

My Causes

There is only just so much time in a life, and there are more than enough causes for several lifetimes. Out of necessity, we pick and chose the battles we are the most willing to fight…even (or perhaps especially) if a winning outcome is not assured. These are mine.

Women as chattel – (Nobody Knows Anything)

My friend Diane nutshelled the insidious religi-political attack on women by a bunch of misogynistic poopy-heads. I’m frankly ashamed that so many …

Pondering Amber Benson’s Relationship Question

On her blog, Amber Benson asks, Why Are Relationships So Hard? Scrolling down to the post’s comment section, you see that simple question generated a flood of comments in a very short amount of time. Apparently, this is a subject very much on people’s minds. And yes—mine, too.

WPS – Will It Get Its Act Together?

It’s been pretty obvious that the WPS, the top-tier women’s soccer league in the U.S., has been hanging on by its fingernails for a couple of seasons. While the business model is sounder than the previous WUSA, that doesn’t mean it might not meet the same fate.

Some top male athletes had a woman as their sports idol (USATODAY.com)

One of those unintended, but very welcome, consequences of letting women excel. Role models are role models. Some top male athletes had …

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 …

Paulina Porizkova: Modeling

Paulina on modeling. Groundbreaking revelations? Not so much (…I hope; but if they are to you, you should pay attention). Something much …

Nancy Lieberman: A new ‘next game’ for Hall of Fame basketball player Nancy Lieberman (latimes.com)

Going back to the 1976 Olympics, I’ve come to expect that Nancy can do anything she wants to do. Men’s basketball is …

Star Trek Series I Have Loved

I grew up with Star Trek. I’ve faithfully–sometimes out of love, sometimes inertia–watched all of the other series as well. They all have had their moments. Sadly, they also have had their stumbles. Here are my thoughts on each.

Holiday Watch: Three Wise Women

This is what happens if you take equal parts A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life and set it in Ireland with the protagonist being a doctor who has sworn off love and is instead becoming married to her career.

2010-11 Maryland Women’s Basketball — A Few Tweaks Toward Greatness

The Maryland women’s basketball team has a youthful core that is very reminiscent of the 2005-06 championship team. They still have some tweaking, though, to reach that level–sometimes they look like a very young team. Fortunately, these adjustments are few and mostly “easily” done.

Scrumtrulescence: 3 Women of Sci-Fi (Blonde Machine Edition)

There are some characters that simply rise above fanboy adoration. They become more than the genre. As a result, they enter in the public consciousness. These icons are usually human, but some bring an element of the machine to the party as well. Here’s a look at three blonde, blood and bolt females who are part of that legacy.

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