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[moominmuppet]

I've got a lot of stuff stored up, but I'm not very focused today, so we'll see how much I actually get sorted to post.

BP Oil Spill: Daily Dead Wildlife Tally
BP disaster update: 40,000 barrels a day, kill the birds, and a Rolling Stone bombshell
Natural oil seeps: Not proof oil spill worries are overblown
Sea turtle clean-up
Efforts to Limit the Flow of Spill News

New policy for changing gender on US passport

Gallery: Digitizing the past and present at the Library of Congress

Kai and I spoke on the phone about her experiences on the Biggest Loser. From seeing her fellow contestants forced to workout with injuries against doctor’s orders, to the extreme dehydration prior to weigh-ins, to the resultant eating disorder that Kai still is working to heal, the story she told was nothing like the fantasy that the Biggest Loser seeks to promote.

US Border Patrol union rep: It's okay to shoot Mexican kids who throw stones

"Gays, lesbians, and bisexuals have poorer health than heterosexuals in
Massachusetts and bisexuals fare the worst, according to a federal
health survey offering one of the few windows into health differences
among the people who make up sexual orientation minorities."

From trendy central Stockholm to this village in the rugged forest south of the Arctic Circle, 85 percent of Swedish fathers take parental leave.

Steven Pinker: "Tech rots your brain" hysteria is stupid

Women scientists on the debate over women in science

Reprinted antique medical illustrations and film posters

World's oldest leather shoe

List of women-friendly mosques in England

Massey miner fired after he spoke to the press about safety

Iceland passes gay marriage law in unanimous vote

Creative Uses of Technology to Give Rural Women Access to Reproductive Health in Iowa -- we have a similar service in use at the Clinic in some departments; the employee walk-in clinic uses it, and it works well in my experience.

Just When You Thought American Apparel Couldn't Fail Any Harder...

More good stuff from Feministing

An article published in Advances in Nursing Science explores the lack of LGBT issues presented in nursing and allied health publications. Written by Michele Eliason, Suzanne Dibble, and Jeanne DeJoseph, the article found that only 0.16 percent of articles focused on LGBT health (8 of nearly 5,000 articles of nursing and allied health publications). The authors describe the impact of this silence in the article.

Healthcare Equality Index 2010 Finds Majority of U.S. Healthcare Facilities Not Fully Inclusive of LGBT People

Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench

Arizona's Next Immigration Target: Children of Illegals

Medical Marijuana Madness in Montana

Thoughts on VA and active duty care

Local (Cleveland) pet-related news

Tremont artist Jeffry Chiplis shot after ArtWalk

Fuel from sewage can be profitable: study

Signal Boost: call for help

Vatican to clamp down on liberal secular opinion -- Wow, that's priceless.

Several Good linkety posts from ajollypyruvate


OK, I'm more than halfway done, so I'm taking a break here. More later, or tomorrow.

Comments

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

I've been linked, I'm famous! *grin*

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

Happy to oblige; it's a very worthwhile read and perspective!

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

*blush* Thank you.

[ticktockman.livejournal.com]

The one from valkywrench is locked.

*daha*

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

Oops; thanks!

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

OK, fixed now!

[jajy1979.livejournal.com]

I hate the standardized tests, and frankly the whole boys are better, girls are better argument just grates on my nerves, from grade school to the Ph.D. tenure track. There are only a handful of places that men and women aren't equal to do a task, and in those cases there are definitive physiological reasons. Among the more obscure ones that isn't talked about much is that women have to spend 3 to 4 days a month away from great cats if they're hands on keepers. Blood smell + carnivore isn't a good combination. But that's easily dealt with by just not being a hands on keeper.

Looking at the links on feminisiting, the one that catches my eye is the kid kicked out for an afro. On one hand it's deplorable that someone is kicked out for one of the few freedoms of expression allowed in most modern classrooms. On the other hand as someone with severe nasal sensitivity, some of the chemicals the kids would spray on their hair or bodies were beyond noxious and they were heavily over used. Axe Body Spray among the boys was really prevalent. Some of the chemicals the girls used to relax their hair were equally appalling. So yeah, I can see where some people would throw them out of their class. (I just confiscated the bottles.)

I need to post the racial mess that's going on down here about the school system. It's a mess and I think you'd be interested to see how quickly the city, which is better than most in the south, breaks down along racial divides when it comes to educational issues.

Another feministing link on the macho male culture, yes that needs to be dealt with. But I will also ask the women to stop stereotyping us right back into it. If you want us to change, we're going to need help. Calling all of us pigs, and treating us like idiots, is not going to have us break this mold. For all the talk about women being more mature? Bullshit, it's just a different kind of immaturity and we're feeding off of it like sharks in chum. So, ladies, if you want those of us who really want to be better than Neanderthals to succeed at moving the chains? We need your support, not this tired ragging on us for all being "the same". (Pet Peeve of double standard behavior.)

*loves info graphics*

*hates the Vatican('t)*

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

I hate the standardized tests, and frankly the whole boys are better, girls are better argument just grates on my nerves, from grade school to the Ph.D. tenure track.

What makes me especially crazy about all these arguments is that variation within each gender is so dramatically wider than the relatively miniscule differences between the genders.

Blood smell + carnivore isn't a good combination. But that's easily dealt with by just not being a hands on keeper.

Or skipping periods hormonally. I haven't had one in a few years, due to how I handle my contraceptives.

So yeah, I can see where some people would throw them out of their class. (I just confiscated the bottles.)

*nod* I can certainly understand that, and if it had been handled differently, it would be a different issue. Talking to the child about it after class to see if she could change products as a favor, or something like that. Not humiliating her in this kind of way.

I need to post the racial mess that's going on down here about the school system. It's a mess and I think you'd be interested to see how quickly the city, which is better than most in the south, breaks down along racial divides when it comes to educational issues.

I'd definitely be interested.

But I will also ask the women to stop stereotyping us right back into it. If you want us to change, we're going to need help. Calling all of us pigs, and treating us like idiots, is not going to have us break this mold.

Entirely agreed.