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Archive | November 3, 2015
Feri Seekers and the Ivy League Syndrome
Court hears case of home-schoolers who didn’t teach their kids because they expected to be raptured
Ms. Magazine | We’ve Got You Covered | Spring 2013
Women Aren’t Here to Smile for You
Man rants to Spotted Cardiff after getting offended by woman running home at night | Metro News
If children lose contact with nature they won’t fight for it | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
Highly sensitive people
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After this weekend my nerves are shot
Missing words
Last week, the BBC radio programme Woman’s Hour ran an item on the American documentary film Do I Sound Gay? The film explores what’s popularly known as ‘the gay voice’, a way of speaking that identifies a man as gay (though not all gay men have it, and some men who do sound gay are actually straight). The Woman’sHour feature ranged more widely over the subject of gay language, including a lengthy discussion of Polari. But it was all about the boys–until, towards the end of the item, the presenter broached the inevitable question: do lesbians also have a language of their own?
The short answer is no: there isn’t a lesbian equivalent of the gay voice, or a lesbian argot comparable to Polari. But since this blog does not do short answers, let’s consider the question–and what’s behind it–more closely.
Questions of the form ‘what is the…
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