Posted in ...and everything else, Bioethics, Pop Culture on May 15th, 2013 No Comments »
As reactions continue to race around the internet about Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery – the actual discussions, not the Monday-morning quarterbacking of her decision or the utterly vile “but what about her boobies” reaction from that particular subgroup of men who manage to amaze me by their continued ability to manage basic [...]
Posted in ...and everything else, Pop Culture on August 13th, 2012 No Comments »
Sex work, I have written, defines the people who do it like no other occupation. Associated with deviance, drug use, mental illness and disease, to be labelled a “prostitute” is to be cast as the lowest of the low. No matter the realities of our experiences, we are thought of as victims and as inherently [...]
Posted in ...and everything else, KellyZen, Philosophy, Pop Culture on March 13th, 2012 No Comments »
I grew up in an ecumenical household. There was no battle between the Stars – Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica. As long as it was space opera, it was welcome, and this was the influence of my father. I don’t have any memories of this starting, because it always was. What I do remember, [...]
Posted in Bioethics, Politics, Pop Culture on February 24th, 2012 5 Comments »
So, the internet has been busy, the last few weeks, discussing ethics. And I’m going to continue avoiding discussion of what I’m sure everyone would love me to discuss, and instead wade into the other debate: should Batman just kill The Joker? Tauriq Moosa, over at Big Think, argues yes, Batman should just kill The [...]
Posted in ...and everything else, Academics, Philosophy, Pop Culture on November 21st, 2011 No Comments »
This started out as a blog comment response over on The Nerdy Bird’s blog regarding Twilight and if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. I was directed to this from Nerds in Babeland’s post defending sparkly vampires, which I flailed about and responded to on Twitter, after GeekGirlCon tweeted [...]