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Feminism Friday – Female Genital Cutting

Posted in Feminism Friday on June 30, 2006 | 27 Comments »

I wrote a paper recently about a topic that brings a great deal of emotion with it for women worldwide, and men too. I’m going to share some of what I learned here, but not the paper itself, which is slightly different in intent (the paper dealt with what the UN policies are and whether [...]

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small town life

Posted in Controversial Commentary, Random Ramblings on June 27, 2006 | 71 Comments »

So, I just spent the most wonderful weekend travelling around small towns in Nova Scotia and PEI with my friend who is doing a PhD on the subject of small towns. It’s a neat project: she is writing a novel set in a small town for half her thesis, and the other half is an [...]

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Feminism Friday – Women and Ageing

Posted in Feminism Friday on June 23, 2006 | 23 Comments »

Wow! Well, after last week’s post, I’m not sure if I can top that discussion. I want to thank everyone who participated in the discussion for their input and insights, I learned a lot about where I stand on matters of free will.I must admit, I’m a bit intimidated because I feel pressured to write [...]

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Feminism Friday – In Defense of Britney Spears

Posted in Feminism Friday on June 16, 2006 | 67 Comments »

Well, this is a highly unlikely post from a Thinking Girl like myself. However, I felt moved to write something about the travesty I witnessed on Thursday evening (June 15) when Matt Lauer interviewed Britney Spears for NBC’s Dateline. (If you missed it and want to know what I’m talking about, click here.)Now, it’s [...]

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politics of the UN

Posted in Political Prattling on June 12, 2006 | 2 Comments »

well, I had my first exam today for my latest class, a political science class called The United Nations in World Politics. I think I did really well on the exam, I normally do pretty well at exams because I can memorize large amounts of information for regurgitation purposes over a short amount of time. [...]

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ch-ch-ch-changes

Posted in Administrative on June 10, 2006 | 6 Comments »

well, I’m thinking of changing my blog to a different site. I’m checking out wordpress.com, to see if I like their software better. I find that Blogger is sometimes a bit slow, and not as flexible as I might like. But whatever, I’ll see what I think about it. For now, I’m changing my blog’s [...]

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Feminism Friday – Women and Morality

Posted in Feminism Friday on June 9, 2006 | 7 Comments »

I recently finished a class in ethics, which was great, and very interesting. The topic of my paper for the class was feminist moral theory (naturally), and there is a great, diverse body of work on this subject. I thought I would share some of my findings on the topics I researched.To begin, the three [...]

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local scandal

Posted in Political Prattling on June 8, 2006 | 6 Comments »

so, I thought I'd share this little local scandal. A few years ago, a female high school gym teacher was "caught" by several male coworkers coming out of a locker room washroom with a female student. The teacher, Lindsay Willow, is a lesbian, and was accused of molesting the student. They were in fact putting [...]

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confessions of a feminist

Posted in Existential Crises & Epiphanies on June 5, 2006 | 14 Comments »

well, I'm late, again. I'm sorry I wasn't able to post a new Feminism Friday piece this past week. I had a bit of a tough week, and my energy was way down and then blogger was acting up and I had to finish a paper and all I really wanted to do was drink [...]

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