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Monthly Archives: November 2008

For Those About the Rock: All-Women Saudi Band

I am amazed at this, really. The Accolade is an all-female Saudi rock band that cannot perform out or be photographed for publicity, but they are still rocking. They say they hope to maybe someday perform in Dubai, which if they could perform anywhere in Saudi Arabia, I would think it would be there. The [...]

CafeMom - most sexist parenting site on the internet.

If it seems odd that my first post on a feminist blog is about decrying a website that ostensibly promotes separate female space, well, you are probably right. It seems odd to me, too. However, CafeMom’s attempt to co-opt an idea of feminist separatism while at the same time perpetuating a raft of harmful and [...]

Second Life Divorce Raises Questions about Relationships and Boundaries

By now you’ve probably heard of the infamous “Second Life Divorce,” which hit the news late last week. Basically, a UK couple who met in a chatroom and bonded over their love of the game Second Life married and began to live together IRL, as the kids say. The couple, Amy Taylor and David Pollard, [...]

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