Until 1968, women were required to prove their female sex by walking naked before a panel of male judges in order to compete in the Olympics, [Laura Robinson] reported. [More…] Another great CBC Sounds Like Canada find: Laura Robinson speaking about her recent book, Black Tights: Women, Sport and Sexuality. Lisa Bavington, a champion body-builder, […]
Sometimes there’s nothing quite like radio, especially CBC: Sounds like Canada… This morning I heard an amazing clip from a recent documentary film called The Corporation. It’s based on a book, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (check this link, great article), by Joel Bakan, a law professor at UBC, and was […]
My husband just sent me this link, Talibanism in Technology, an article by Deepa Kandaswamy for Dataquest: The Business of Infotech aka “India’s No. 1 IT publication.” The article lists Seven reasons why women in technology remain invisible and was published on Feb. 26, 2003 — almost a year ago! — but he just came […]
Mark on Wood’s Lot excerpts a great essay by Isaiah Berlin on Pluralism. Berlin begins by explaining what differentiates him from a relativist. While there might be a plurality of values that men and women can seek, their number is not infinite, however. And because their number is finite, one woman can understand another woman, […]
I hope Victoria’s Tirdad Shirvani doesn’t object to my blogging his Jan. 7 letter to a local newspaper, The Victoria News, but as it’s a great letter, its dissemination to a few more individuals seems like a good idea. While you could find it online if you followed all the links to “letters” etc., I’ll […]
The Register‘s Andrew Orlowski posted this story today: Flight Sim enquiry raises terror alert. It’s about a mother trying to buy her 10-year old a Microsoft Flight Simulator at a Massachusetts Staples store. The ever-on-guard-against-terror American patriot who waited on the woman called the cops after she left, and they, searching for terrorists, in turn […]
This just in from the Toronto Star: Feds rule out ban on abattoir waste in cattle feed: Federal officials have ruled out a ban on feeding slaughterhouse waste to cattle even though some government scientists say such a ban is the only way to be sure of stopping mad cow disease. The reasoning — once […]
Yes, it’s warmer again, the snow is a slushy memory, the grass is green again, no more hats, no more scarves, but really dirty wet dogs instead. One thing in favour of icy snowy cold is its dryness: low on the ground dogs don’t hoover up mud and city dirt, they stay clean in cold […]
The International Herald Tribune carried an article by Diana Pinto today that I thought was one of the smartest commentaries I’ve yet read on the French ban of religious dress and symbolism (aka “the head scarf ban”): The long, bloody path that led to French securalism: Head scarves and history. Pinto writes that a militantly […]
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