December 2004

“Any female[…] has had to work ten times as hard as her male counterpart to be accepted in their organization. She will be more able, will react quicker, and will generally be much more dangerous. Kill her first.” — Starr, “One Man’s War,” Preacher That’s the best quote ever. A great article on Geeky girls […]

Rox Populi points to this article about recommendations for the deployment of mixed-sex units alongside all-male units in the US military: The Nov. 29 briefing to senior Army officers at the Pentagon, presented as part of the service’s sweeping transformation of its 10 war-fighting divisions, advocates scrapping the military’s ban on collocation — the deployment

Amanda’s got some thoughts on the latest round of the “weak Y chromosome” story at NPR. And I’ve got some counter-thoughts. I’ve heard people lamenting for awhile that the Y chromosome is “too small.” Mostly, it’s men who say this. I think this has something to do with the male preoccupation with size. Let’s be

Learned how to do a jump kick last night. Well, sorta. OK, I figured out how to do the basics of a jump kick last night. You know that winning move at the end of The Karate Kid that Danny uses to win the match? It’s like that. Only, without the arms. We had an

Because I wasn’t invited to today’s meeting. I have mixed feelings. That aside… here’s a yearly round-up questionairre via Vandermeer: 1. What did you do in 2004 that you’d never done before? Took up martial arts and boxing, started a blog, got a story published in Strange Horizons, got the most “this is a great

A Perfect Circle has a remix of Lennon’s “Imagine” (and, uh… check out the very familiar propaganda posters they’ve got scrolling over their front page. I laughed and laughed) I’m usually not a fan of remixes, but I’ve had this one on repeat all day.

One of my favorite studies on caloric restriction and the effects of dieting on appetite, metabolism, and brain function is actually 50 years old. Ancel Benjamin Keys, PhD., did a groundbreaking study about the effects of a restricted calorie diet on healthy men during a 6-month period. I’m very, very thankful that he did this

Amanda regularly takes “advice” columns directed toward women and their hetero dating habits to task. If you’re not following these (particularly if you’re a guy), you should. With advice like this, it’s no wonder a lot of guys keep telling me that they find women really confusing (I’ve never found myself very confusing) and women

Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) Stumbled across this, and it reminded me of a couple of my posts: “On Merit. And Sex. Of Course” and “More On Why Power is All About Women.” Just to reiterate, once again, that there’s nothing new under the sun. Just keep saying the same damn things, over and over and over

No. I’m not watching Earthsea tonight, in all it’s whitewashed glory. Author Nalo Hopkinson and Leguin each rant about it. Remind me never to sell the rights to anything I’ve written that’s really close to my heart. I’ll end up screaming at the television (apparently, according to the director, it’s a “multicultural” adventure because there