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sex roles

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on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2015 Feb 8, 5:59am
by: mindful webworker - spirational

shredded chi: "once I learned that there was a fatality, I felt horrible..."

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Subjects: sex roles

on: PoliNation • Thu 2014 Oct 30, 7:09pm
by: A Mindful Webworker

"After nearly a month of defending them, Lincoln Public Schools District in Nebraska has finally agreed to stop using the infamous “purple penguin” transgender training handouts."

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Subjects: education, sex roles

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2014 Jun 29, 9:25am
by: mindful webworker - wild, wild caveman

rickl > I just discovered that recently myself.

Oh, good. If I was stupid, I wasn't alone.

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Subjects: humor, online communication, sex roles

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2014 Jun 29, 9:06am
by: mindful webworker - wild, wild assumptions

Since the days of BBSs and CompuServe, I have tried to maintain a liberal idea of the gender of text people if it's not evident.

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Subjects: online communication, sex roles

on: PoliNation • Thu 2014 May 29, 7:02pm
by: A Mindful Webworker

Time Magazine cover: The transgender tipping point…

The cover picture suggests this has to do with the difficulty of guys trying to clomp along in spiked heels.

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Subjects: sex roles

on: Ace of Spades • Mon 2014 Jan 20, 11:30pm
by: webworker on some enchanted evening

"...in environments designed to be completely gender neutral..." -Mætenloch

"Not always." -Pajama boy sipping cocoa

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Subjects: Pajama Boy, sex roles

on: Ace of Spades • Sun 2012 Jul 15, 4:47pm
by: A Mindful Webworker

I think I can now summarize this thread:

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Subjects: sex roles

My daughter's midwife

Decades back, I read a great retort about alleged linguistic sexism, a woman who said she had no problem at all being called the chairman of the board! Heh.

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Subjects: sex roles, midwifery, pregnancy, nature v nurture

on: Ace of Spades • Sat 2012 Apr 7, 10:58pm
by: A Mindful Webwinker

That's no bunny toe! Sheesh! Hef himself ordered those stiff plastic shields that they had to wear down there. That's a well-known fact that I just entered in Wikipedia.

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Subjects: sex roles