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Nina Hartley The September issue of The Humanist contains an interview with a woman who is witty, intelligent, a humanist, lover of science, former nurse, a feminist, and just happens to be a porn star. Marie Hartman graduated with honors from San Francisco State University and is the author or coauthor of several
Continue reading Thoughtful Intercourse About a month ago, my local paper the Spartanburg Herald Journal ran an editorial by writer Lane Filler entitled Abortion Eliminated, My Way. In it he listed his ideas for what he figured would be good solutions to making abortions a part of America’s past, not it’s present. I was actually astounded that Mr. Continue reading Abortion Eliminated? “Former Fly Girl JLo Supports Vaccines!” Recently, skeptics around the web have been buzzing about a public service announcement, first aired in April of 2009, which features singer and actress Jennifer Lopez urging parents to get themselves vaccinated against Pertussis. The PSA goes right for the gut; it uses recordings of a child suffering from the Continue reading The Skeptical Headline You’ll Never See Not ev’ry girl can get herself a guy who looks like Nick. Wait, to tell the truth, it hurt my pride — the groom was prettier than the bride. “Sadie, Sadie” from the movie Funny Girl And then Sadie’s groom got her pregnant and abandoned the relationship in favor of gambling. We fail in our love Continue reading He’s Just Not That Into You – But I Can’t Prove It I’ve been thinking about miscarriage lately. A cluster of women I know have shared their stories of recent pregnancy loss. Then I read Isis the Scientist’s article about her current miscarriage: What I haven’t told you is that toward the end of July I saw two blue lines. I told Mr. Isis, some friends,
Continue reading Speaking of Miscarriage A version of this article is cross-posted here. I read some fluff. I encountered the term “vajazzling” when I happened across this video. The definition is something like “Swarovoski crystals on my vajayjay.” Let me attempt to translate that: someone put little expensive sparkly crystals on Continue reading Yay! Vaginas! And Other Awesome Girly Bits! (NSFW) For those of you that read Sheril Kirshenbaum’s “Under The Microscope: Feminism, Scientists and Sexiness,” and Alexandra Jellicoe’s response “Is Science Sexist?,” here’s a response to the response. If there is one lesson from SexyGate (the kerfuffle following Sheril Kirshenbaum’s inclusion on a “sexy scientist” list[1]), it is that actions have consequences, long-range, Continue reading Des Liked: Zombie Feynman vs The Special Girl Powers Challenging: The Beautiful Servant by Fragonard I recently attended the keynote lecture given by Dr. Linda Williams at the Pornography: At the Limit conference at the University at Buffalo. Williams elucidated several important things that we should consider when thinking about porn, which is a subject that provokes strong reactions categorizing it as everything Continue reading Thinking Critically About Porn At what point are we going to allow female scientists to just “be”, without continually commenting on their appearance? Under The Microscope: Feminism, Scientists and Sexiness “In my profession today I work closely with many talented men. We write
Continue reading If You Think I’m Sexy And You Like My Data It is no secret that there is dissent within the skeptical ranks, both in terms of philosophy and method. What may be less known is that there is even drama within the micro sub-cultures of this “movement”, some of which I am less than proud to be a part of. When James Randi split Continue reading (S)He Without Sin by Heidi Anderson |
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