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  5. Because a Pap test screens for abnormal cervical cells and because those cell changes can be associated with cervical cancer, being on the receiving end of an abnormal Pap test result can be frightening, intimidating, and confusing. And the codes they use to describe the results might sound like alphabet soup!

    Luckily, our awesome blogger Tori wrote an excellent piece about how to interpret abnormal Pap test results.

  8. “‘You Look Great’: What Do We Promote When We Compliment Weight Loss“: A trio of articles I read made me reflect on weight loss compliments. They may not be such a nice thing to say.

    “Experiments in Teaching Grammar: Successes and Failure“: A grammar lesson I taught to my community college developmental students in one class went great, then it almost caused a fist fight in my second class. I did some thinking and tried a new approach.

    “In Sickness and in Health, but Not in Monster Attacks“: My husband has been an amazing partner through unmedicated childbirth and a zombie attack, but when the real monsters came, he bailed on me.

  11. A lot of asana-related posts this week. (This is how you can tell it’s nearing the end of the semester: My brain is fried for all but the most concrete topics.)

    Our latest Everyday Yoga photo post — lunges. And a current call for submissions of your chair pose pics.

    One More Abductor Stretch, including my frustrations with it — “Which sort of boils down to: There seem to be modifications for people with more or less spinal flexibility, modifications for people with tighter outer hips, modifications for people who are pregnant (and for whom strong spinal rotation is therefore contraindicated) — but no modifications for people who are fat.”

    And thinking about comment policies.

  14. This week I wrote about Republican platforms that oppose teaching thinking skills.

    I also wrote about the piece on Fox News about the war on men and Venker’s non-apology for that piece. In particular, I look at the canard that claims feminism lied to women by promising us that we could have it all, as that canard appears in both Venker’s pieces.

    I wrote two pieces about Canadian politics: the first discusses the court-ordered removal of Rob Ford as the Mayor of Toronto.

    The second looks at student protest movements in Quebec and the rest of Canada by looking at the lyrics of two songs.

  18. Do we use a different part of the brain for arithmetic than for calculus?
    http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/mathochism-gelling/
    Calculus is almost over, and it’s been painfully fun:
    http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/mathochism-wrapping-it-up/
    I never thought I would have something in common with Mittens:
    http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/mathochism-not-my-finest-hour/
    Sometimes, you just get through it:
    http://onefemalegaze.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/mathochism-an-hour-of-your-life/

  20. More Fromage.

    In Breaking down, holding on, I have kind of a bad weekend for a few different reasons.

    In So happy I could die, I bounce back and talk about cheery stuff, like death.

    There will be more Fromage on the way. It’s pretty much all about music, specifically about a woman of a certain age making her way in the notoriously sexist music business. I imagine the music focus isn’t for everyone, but it’s my life. Thanks!

  21. There was a lot going on this week! I wrote about:

    –My #1 fa(t)shion rule: don’t assume
    –The concept of “flaws” is flawed
    –Fatshion: not inclusive enough
    –And the ethics of fatshion get even more complicated… and a few other related posts, in response to Natalie Perkins’ post about the state of the fatshion blogosphere: Twitter takes on fatshion blogging, capitalism, and revolution, More on the advertising/activism divide, and why I’m not monetizing my blog, and an update on Ariel’s fatshion activism idea.

  22. Poverty. Happiness. Nice things. A side of transphobia (of course). TW for classism and transphobia. An incident where a friend of mine is told that she can’t want nice things because she is broke.

    Food. Clothes. Hijabs. New rules. Inspired by the AMAZING Captain Awkward, I have some rules on what we’re allowed to say about people’s clothes. These rules are to be followed, forever, by everyone.

    Abortion, X and the Eighth Amendment: why legislation isn’t enough. TW for.. oh god, for rampant misogyny. Ireland is debating precisely what levels of risk to a pregnant person’s life justify allowing abortion. I say FUCK THAT. There is only one reason and ONE reason alone why someone should get an abortion in Ireland. Because ze asks for one. And for that, we’re going to have to scrap some of our constitution.

    Pics from the pro-choice demo last night at Leinster House. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Leinster House, by the way, is where our government does its governing. The protest was incredible and powerful and moving and wonderful and angry as all hell.

    Death, atheism and middle-of-the-night belief: being kind to ourselves. Skepticism is essential, and it’s also hard work. Sometimes things hurt too much to be a skeptic. Sometimes I can’t but allow a moment to the part of my brain that wants to believe comforting things. I think that’s okay.

    That World AIDS Day Thing.

    and finally…

    OMG! 200 posts! Landmark time!

    1. Being a closeted queer is something that people understand- it’s something that’s gotten into the popular dialogue. We haven’t really caught on to the similar narratives about gender, though. Probably because transness is expected to be a thing that someone Always Knows. Trans people don’t get the same social pass that queers do to actually be uncertain and questioning, and yet affected by transphobia. So where you wouldn’t generally say that a queer person “lived as straight” until they came out, this charming person seems to think it’s okay to make a similar accusation to a trans person.

      Which is a long-winded way of saying that going around referring to trans women as having been men for most of their lives is Seriously Fucked Up. Oh, and it’s also a silencing tactic that transphobes have been using against trans women for decades. If a trans woman actually speaks up for herself, takes up space or defends herself, you see, she gets accused of being aggressive and masculine. It’s the oldest- and one of the meaner- tricks in the book.

      Thanks so much for this, Aoife. Well put. And one of the many things that it’s hard for trans women to say ourselves without being accused of defensiveness, delusion, and special pleading.

      1. *sigh* Sometimes it seems like transmisogyny is made of so many double, triple, nth binds that the idea is that trans* women are neither allowed to speak or to be silent. It’s f*cking cruel.

    1. This is a post where I look at some male-oriented movies I like, and show how there are women whose lives could be told in compelling stories similar to these male movies.

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