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Psych of Gender, Week 1

A new term, a new class. I dread beginnings and unknown expectations, but I got through the first week of class just fine. This is totally different than the other 2 I’ve taken; less fact-based and more thoughtful. At a minimum I’m writing a paper a week for this class. Some weeks, [...]

Psych of Gender Week 1 paper

Because a few of you have expressed interest in what I’m learning, here’s this week’s paper.
Psychology of Gender
Chapters 4-6
Sex Roles as Adaptations was my first real exposure to evolutionary psychology. This chapter both fascinated me and spawned new questions for me to ponder as I considered the cases of both animals and humans. [...]

Physical Geography, Week 8

Yesterday was the last day of the term for Physical Geography. I got my final paper back this morning - 100! I finished the class with 97% over all.
No time to rest on my laurels, though. Psychology of Gender starts today. This is going to be very writing intense, with a minor [...]

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Take it from Jo(e)

Appropriately on Love Your Body Day, Jo(e) writes about her annual weekend with women friends in the mountains. Part of their tradition is the naked photo. The essay and image are awe-inspiring.

Those Naked Women:
Within seconds, I had left my clothes in a pile and was perched on a rock outcropping, [...]

Love Your Body Day

It’s sad that we need a special day to remind us, but today is Love Your Body Day, sponsored by the NOW Foundation. For those of us who struggle with body image, it’s a day to shrug off societal standards of beauty, as well as our own, often unrealistic, expectations. It’s a time [...]

Just vote for the white half

For all the bigots out there who can’t bring themselves to vote for a black man. Remember, as David Alan Grier points out, he’s only half black.

The Red Menace?

A thread on Reddit:

If idiot conservatives will argue that Obama = Osama, I submit that Palin = Stalin
Some comments:

d64: So let’s see here.. Both are white. Both have been in charge of large, cold parts of Earth. Both are hardliners when it comes to their core issues. Both have fired subordinates for lack of loyalty… [...]

Forget what I said about shame

Same guy, same monkey, 1 hour earlier. Apparently he was only ashamed when national tv cameras were rolling. When he thought he was safely anonymous, not so much.
I really want to know what he’s saying. Any lip readers in the house?

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