Archive | November 23, 2015
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Watch: The science of genetic inheritance is weirder than we thought – ScienceAlert
Paul Krugman Gets It Right: Republicans Are Panicked, Stupid And Cruel
Should the Catholic Church Acknowledge the Destruction of Classical Pagan Culture?
Let them Eat Sugar Sculpture! The Getty Celebrates Edible Table Art : The Salt : NPR
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My Disservice to My Transgender Patients
The Thing All Women Do That You Don’t Know About
There’s this thing that happens whenever I speak about or write about women’s issues. Things like dress codes, rape culture and sexism. I get the comments: Aren’t there more important things to worry about? Is this really that big of a deal? Aren’t you being overly sensitive? Are you sure you’re being rational about this?
Every. Single. Time.
And every single time I get frustrated. Why don’t they get it?
I think I’ve figured out why.
They don’t know.
They don’t know about de-escalation. Minimizing. Quietly acquiescing.
Hell, even though women live it, we are not always aware of it. But we have all done it.
We have all learned, either by instinct or by trial and error, how to minimize a situation that makes us uncomfortable. How to avoid angering a man or endangering ourselves. We have all, on many occasions, ignored an offensive comment. We’ve all…
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