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• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  @ Xeni: Thank you for posting this story. While it's been hard as an intersex person to read some of the uninformed or trollish posts, it's also been good to see people learning and engaging intelligently with intersex issues. One...
• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  By the way, I have a blog on intersex issues, if anyone would care to read more: http://intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/. I've posted on Caster Semenya's case there....
• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  Friends, as an intersex person, let me make a point here. The idea that there are two sexes is a myth. The idea that instead there are three, male, female, and intersex, is equally a myth. Sex exists as a...
• Commented on Treatment of intersexed African athlete appalling
  Oh, my friends. So, speaking as an intersex person, testes are not a cancer risk in us any more than they are in other folks. That's a scare tactic used to prod parents into surgically altering us. It's just depressing...
• Commented on A history of the Klingon Language
  Ah, this is why I love geeks. People pursuing useless things for the sheer joy of the accomplishment--which I believe is a good definition of art....
• Commented on Ecstatic epilepsy seizures
  I experience seizure auras with a strong emotive component, but alas, rarely bliss--usually a sort of oceanic sensation of regret, guilt and fear. I have experienced the blissed state though, which occurred while my partner was holding me for comfort,...
• Commented on HOWTO make edible circuit diagrams out of candy
  The commentary on project site totally left me grinning. On Air Heads Xtremes Sweetly Sour Belts: “the sticky surface texture left you feeling like you'd just been handling salted, fluorescent bacon.” Working in the bacon meme--way to go! Lovely geekery....
• Commented on Waterboard torture memo set to music
  I wish I lived in a world where I could post something snarky about writing a song about waterboarding, but I don't. I'm glad the video's getting exposure. I hope that poignant yet ironic commentary on U.S. practices in the...
• Commented on freaky food fun: Insert dried spaghetti into hot dogs, then boil
  As many kids from Hawai'i seem to know, these are squidogs: http://www.flickr.com/photos/forkableblog/2602280128/in/set-72157605772129444/....
• Favorited Anatomical paintings on vanity and fading beauty on Boing Boing
• Commented on Art film made with satellites videos of solar wind and coronal mass ejections
  Just love the embracing of the human subject in this. Datacleaning produces the illusion of objectivity that is so foundational to our scientific ideology that are barely aware of its ideological status. It seems to me more lovely, honest and...
• Commented on Fake People Tell Fake Stories About The Threat Of Gay Marriage
  What are the mysterious rights that are being trampled here? They are the "right" of a doctor not to treat all patients equally (what? for those who took the Hypocritic Oath?), the right to receive government subsidies for discriminating, and...
• Commented on Women's sense of smell evolved to sniff out bad mates
  Meh, so much of this is cultural. Studies using American college students show that women can distinguish more colors than men, but the results *don't hold when testing subjects from nonwestern cultures*. Turns out that distinguishing colors is a trait...
• Commented on Women's sense of smell evolved to sniff out bad mates
  Meh, so much of this is cultural. Studies using American college students show that women can distinguish more colors than men, but the results *don't hold when testing subjects from nonwestern cultures*. Turns out that distinguishing colors is a trait...
• Commented on Women's sense of smell evolved to sniff out bad mates
  Meh, so much of this is cultural. Studies using American college students show that women can distinguish more colors than men, but the results *don't hold when testing subjects from nonwestern cultures*. Turns out that distinguishing colors is a trait...
• Commented on Women's sense of smell evolved to sniff out bad mates
  Meh, so much of this is cultural. Studies using American college students show that women can distinguish more colors than men, but the results *don't hold when testing subjects from nonwestern cultures*. Turns out that distinguishing colors is a trait...
• Commented on Teaching journalism with virtual worlds
  I've been doing research in Second Life for almost two years. Like any nonvirtual environment, many more people visit than move in; I don't see it as a criticism of Paris that it has a lot of tourists, or of...
• Favorited Nine year old's survey project excluded from school because he learned some people don't think of themselves as male or female on Boing Boing
• Favorited Nine year old's survey project excluded from school because he learned some people don't think of themselves as male or female on Boing Boing
• Favorited Nine year old's survey project excluded from school because he learned some people don't think of themselves as male or female on Boing Boing
• Commented on Nine year old's survey project excluded from school because he learned some people don't think of themselves as male or female
  Since #10 and #16 seem so focused on the idea that while crazies may try to deny it, empirically speaking we are all "really" either male or female, and should check either our pants or our genotypes for the proof,...
• Commented on Argentine philosophy prof faces prison time for posting unofficial translations of out of print Derrida texts
  Great--an obscure academic introduces the blissfully unaware to obscurantisme terroriste, and get slammed by copyterrorists....
• Commented on Worst-dressed aliens
  This is both deeply amusing and a great target for a sociologist. Fashion trends in alien couture! The greys who abduct folks do seem remarkable attuned to local style trends. . ....
• Commented on Essay Jukebox
  Listen, as a transguy, I can assure you from the position of those of us who actually have to run a gauntlet to get to manhood, you reaaally don't want toothy coming-of-age rituals. It's all fun an games until somebody...