March 17th, 2008

The last post I will write on this subject.

Just for the record, the definitive post on transgenderism and radical feminism was written some time ago, and it is Amananta on Radical feminism and the Transgendered, or, how to write a post that will infuriate everyone.
This one isn’t too bad either.
Why is this my last post on such a contested subject, you might ask? […]

January 24th, 2007

Notes on "Na"

“Na” (he/she/him/her) and “nan” (possessive his/her) are sex-neutral third-person-singular pronouns invented by the lesbian-feminist writer June Arnold in her brilliant book, “The Cook and the Carpenter: A novel by the carpenter” (Daughters Inc., Plainfield, VT, 1973). As an introduction to the novel, Arnold writes:
Since the differences between men and women are so obvious […]

January 4th, 2007

Wading in, or, how easily $0.02 becomes a pocketful o’ quarters

I’ve been pondering over the last week or so whether I have anything to throw on the wildfire currently blazing through the blogosphere. Of course, now that it’s starting to die down, it’s time for me to jump in! I have a draft of a post that I started writing when I saw […]

June 21st, 2006

Snore.

I know I am being impossibly boring this week. Believe me, I am boring myself. I keep thinking I’m going to write something and then I find someone else has pretty much written it which is simultaneously satisfying and anti-climactic. I’m also getting ready to go to Cleveland for the Size Diversity […]

November 20th, 2004

Heterosexism on 20/20

Well it was just a festival of homo-hating on ABC’s 20/20 last night. If you blinked, you mighta missed it though, so let me explain.
One of the featured stories was that of the 35-year-old Mormon-raised Alaskan identical twins, Liana and Juanita. Juanita is now Juan. Juan supposedly “knew” since age three that “he” was a […]

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