Sometimes what I suspect I’m doing – the way I live my life, what I write – is building an alternate version of femininity. I was at the coffeeshop today working on Black Desert, and at the the next table over three skinny, blond 14-year-old girls were drinking waters and frappuchinos, gossiping about boys and […]
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Was clicking through some shows tonight while finishing up my Greek yogurt, and happened upon Dr. 90210, in which a porn star was having her third breast augmentation surgery because the first two had been screwed up. While the doctor pressed and cupped these enormous bubble breasts protruding from her tube-shaped boyish body, he said,
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Does it really bug anybody else when men refer to women as “females”? Why do guys do this? I’d like to think it’s because they’re including “women and girls” in their description, so “females” is supposed to mean “all female-gendered persons in particular,” but I don’t go around saying, “I haven’t been with many males,”
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There’s a new girl at work who was introduced to us here in the IT room. She’s quite lovely, petite, and blond, and the lot of us engaged her in our usual sort of introductory banter. As the boys and I chatted with her, I found myself thinking about how much easier introductions must be
Over 90% of women of childbearing age use some sort of contraception method. I quickly became aware that my male gender has allowed me to pass through medical school (and life!) totally ignorant of all of this. My patients came in using almost everything–condoms, the pill, the patch, Nuvaring, Depo–and I was left perplexed. What
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