Gender
Bride Song
As of December 2003, 247,966 Taiwanese had married foreigners, most of these were men marrying women from Mainland China (over 50%), Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, etc. Most of these women are less educated and younger than the average Taiwanese bride. More importantly, many of these women don’t speak Chinese. In fact, many are not even literate […]
撒嬌
I’m really just showing off that I’ve finally implemented Unicode posting on my site, but I also wanted to add a footnote of sorts to my last post about language and gender.
There is a very particular form of female speech in Taiwan, which while it may not be unique to Taiwan, doesn’t seem to have […]
Are they?
Mark Liberman goes over the research on language and gender and, looking at one particular language feature, asks whether the empirical evidence really stands up to assertions that women use more “tag questions” in their speech than men. He concludes that the evidence does not support the claim, in fact the opposite is true; however, […]
Haboub(a)
I have serious problems with a theme that has been running through reports on the Abu Ghraib torture photographs. The most elaborate version of this argument appeared in today’s Washington Post, in an article which asserts that
… by stripping the prisoners naked and posing them in ways designed to insinuate homosexual behavior, the American guards […]
Hazing
At the end of my last post on the photos from Abu Ghraib, I quoted President Bush as saying:
“That’s not the way we do things in America.”
And asserted that this was not true, linking to an article about rape in the Air Force Academy.
Well, I think the following makes my point even better:
On the April […]
Nong Thoom
BoingBoing seems to have linked to the website for the movie Beautiful Boxer, mostly because of the tagline:
He fights like a man so he can become a woman.
But it actually looks like it is a good film:
This amazing film is based on the true story of Parinya Charoenphol, known to everyone as Nong Thoom – […]
Caesarean
Now, here is the kind of woman a right-to-lifer would love. An
unidentified 40-year-old, lived in a rural area of Mexico without electricity or running water, and eight hours from the nearest hospital.
Who had previously lost a baby due to “labour complications”, is having problems giving birth. So what does she do?
She took three small glasses […]
Pregnant
It seems that expectant mothers who wish to carry their pregnancies to term are the ones most likely to be harmed by the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA):
Paradoxically, the UVVA does not make it a federal crime to attack pregnant women, and its sponsors explicitly rejected proposals to protect the woman herself under federal […]
Pink
One group I never “got” are the “Gay Republicans.” But two news stories, one in the New York Times, and the other in the Washington Post, have revealed that this seemingly incongruous category, which I assume must be small to begin with, contains a wide array of identity and political positions. One division stands out: […]
Gender
Mike at Ishbadiddle points out an interesting legal quandary:
So amidst all the Gay Marriage backing-and-forthing, one thing I haven’t seen addressed is this: if the Constitution (as amended) will define marriage as “between a man and a woman,” then how will we define “man” and “woman”?
… Apparently, the answer differs from state to state. If […]
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