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Thursday Round-Up

Educe Me: You Don’t Know Me
On anonymity and teaching blogs.

Aldahlia: Teens, Purity, and Money
On teen pregnancy, punishment for lack of “purity,” and the reality of becoming pregnant when you yourself are a child.

Culture Kitchen: Lawrence Lessig : from molested choirboy to American hero
An interesting story on the god of the Creative Commons copyright, and his life as an activist against the Catholic Church’s child abuse scandals.

Quodlibets: Is ChickLit Feminist Lit?
I don’t know, but I have a few guilty pleasures.

Half-Changed World: The Privilege of Choice
How economic status adds choices to the life of an individual.

No Taming This Shrew: The Quest to be a Funny Liberal
Liberal humor isn’t always lame, but we do like the puns.

Archaeopteryx: Einstein vs. Darwin?
Dissection of a religiously-motivated attack on the Sanctity of Science.

DED Space: If you want to insult a man, the best way to do it is to call him a woman, and in the meantime insult every female creature on the planet.

Echidne of the Snakes: Saturday Sermon
Jesus never said that those wealthy in earthly and material goods would inherit the earth, but fuck it.

Blog Alice: Swimming With Sharks in South Africa
And there are even pictures.

SMRT-TV: The Apprentice and Sexism
This one was written by a former Feministe guest blogger named Erin. You can find her at the fshk blog.

To Be Determined: On Danica Patrick
Chuck writes more on the stink raised by Bobby Gordon against Danica Patrick.

The Alley Notebooks: I am just a marketing campaign for my vagina. Which is malformed, and that’s why I’m a scholar.
We need an award for best titles. This would be my nomination. And the content is good, too.

Friday Dog Blogging, and a farewell (for now)

Today will be my last Friday Dog Blog in a while, as tomorrow I depart for Sardinia, Italy, and little Ferris cannot come with me. And yes, I know that it is not Friday. But since I will be on an airplane on Friday, I thought I’d get this in a bit early. This also means that I’ll be absent from the blog for a few days while I travel pretty much to the other side of the world (Seattle to Sardinia is taking me two days) and get settled in with my Italian hosts. But according to the family I’m staying with, internet access is available nearby, so I should be back to posting (although lightly) by June 5th or 6th. Until then, enjoy pictures of my adorable puppy (and because it’s the last dog blog for a while, ya’ll get a bunch of them)!

Chrissy and Ferris
Ferris and my little sister

ferris and jill
Me and Ferris. I look a little busted up in this picture. But he’s yawning, so he looks weird too. Don’t hold it against us, it was a long day.

ferris happy
Ferris looking exceptionally happy (and slightly deformed)

ferris and jill 2
My favorite picture of me and Ferris, taken back at Christmas when he had a snazzy haircut and I was about 10 shades paler than I am now. Awesome. I’m gonna miss this little guy!

Becoming Orgasmic

I find it funny just how much I enjoy science blogs, especially since I can’t grasp the basic rules of science. Nonetheless, this is one reason why the sciences appeal to me so much: Becoming Orgasmic — A Chat With the Director of the Kinsey Institute, Dr. Julia R. Heiman.

It is surprising that the same kinds of arguments are made even though they don’t hold water. The same kinds of accusations are made about what is good and bad about sex research even though we need to know more for everybody’s sexual health to have a society that works well in this area. We’re not very good in that in the United States. We have a very high teen pregnancy rate. We’ve got a relatively high STD rate even though it has dropped a lot. These things shouldn’t be happening in an industrialized country that has good information available to it. That those messages that would protect people don’t have an easy forum can be frustrating

Read the rest for an engaging discussion on sexuality and sexual behavior wordwide.

via Becky

Preschool Politics: Babies, Biting, and Drive-By Parenting

Writer Neal Pollack indulged Salon readers with his failing technique as a parent when his toddler son was ejected from preschool for biting. At one point he referred to his son as a “little shit,” a detail that has since been changed once the drive-by parenting began.

Letters poured into Salon lambasting his account of his son’s behavioral problems, six pages of them, and blogs from across all spectrums raked Pollack and his wife across the coals. Few were kind or understanding. Most decided that the problem lay with the parents, in part because Pollack repeatedly expressed that he and his wife need time away from their son to earn an income and *gasp!* occasional time to themselves in order to preserve their marital sanity.

The article was a funny and engaging account of the darker side of parenthood, and any negative comments made about Pollack’s parenting are a knee-jerk reaction to expressing unpopular sentiments about what others think parenthood ought to look like. Though few seem to think it fit to say so, I stand squarely with Neal Pollack. My son is funny, cute, smart, and engaging. And sometimes I want absolutely nothing to do with him.

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