Are you a boy or a girl? Flash presentation. You know, I always wondered, do/did they ever test people competing as *male* atheletes to make sure they’re *really* men, or has this always been some kind of wacked-out, let’s make sure the girls are protected macho thing?
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The train dropped Nyx off at a refueling station within view of Mushira where the local farmers collected fuel for their farming equipment and personal vehicles. Nyx alighted and pulled up the hood of her burnous. She started to put on her goggles and then looked out over Mushira and stopped. She wouldn’t need those
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One of the strongest arguments for continuing to teach history is the incredible sense of freedom it gives an individual who’s grown up thinking that the cultural norms, the “reality” that they’ve grown up in is just “the way things are” or “the way things have always been.” Spent some time studying history, and every
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Great conversation over at Pandagon about advertising and breast augmentation.
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I just finished re-reading Jeff VanderMeer’s Veniss Underground. I read it and loved it when it first came out, lured by a stunning review of the book by Michael Moorcock. This time around, as I re-read Veniss I started to think about what draws me back to particular books. I don’t re-read a lot of
There’s an interesting conversation going on at Jed’s about gender identity. He actually asks *how* you know you’re a girl/boy, but I’m also quite interested in when? When did you know?
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The Game/Quiz. If I ever publish GW, I want to make a flash game where you go around cutting off people’s heads and collect bugs that give you special powers and healing abilities. That would be kewl.
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Gazing at the enormous organs (of male ducks), she (Dr. Brennan) asked herself a question that apparently no one had asked before. “So what does the female look like?” she said. “Obviously you can’t have something like that without some place to put it in. You need a garage to park the car.” The lower
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