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Lisa Jain Thompson
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Sunday, 05 September 2010
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Once upon a time, and a very good time it may have been, there was a young mother coming along the sidewalk in Sacramento, pushing her year old infant in a stroller. Passing strangers would greet the young mother, telling her what a pretty young girl she had.
Mother would smile, look at the strangers and politely, but firmly say
- She is a boy. Can’t you see he is dressed in blue?
Passersby would apologize. “The curls, the dimples, the pretty brown eyes …”
As easy as that, I would become a boy in the eyes of the world. My mother would tell me this story many times as I was growing up, laughing as if she was still embarrassed that I was often mistaken for a girl when I was young. Looking back, I suspect she always sensed the true nature of her oldest surviving “son” but, like most parents, preferred not thinking about it much.
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 Maggie Fox Friday, 03 September 2010
The Politicians And The Medical Establishment Fudge Science To Appease Abrahamic Religions!
Manchester, England. In England the National Health Service (NHS) defines sex as the biological sex that you were born with. It is determined by the sex organs (gonads) which are the testes in males and the ovaries in females.
So there you have it!
You are going to be discriminated against by the medical and political establishment forever if you can’t demonstrate possession of one or the othe |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 29 August 2010
Fairfax, VA, USA. It was the best of times; it was the worst of times, the best of all possible worlds and the worse. It was politics as usual on Planet Earth.
The President, an articulate speaker of prefabricated speeches, finds that words do not a new world make. The ship of state that is the greatest democracy in the history of world does not alter its course easily.
Inertia is a sticky wicket that only a handful of politicians can master. Washington, Lincoln, and, perhaps, Franklin |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 22 August 2010
Fairfax, VA, USA. Meet me at the crossroads where psychology engages neuroscience and biology. Join me at the sharp edge where cultural anthropology and sociology confronts the higher maths and scientific methodology.
There are no pristine university sanctuaries that will survive the growing standards of rigorous scientific research; no learned academic petitions that will survive outside of their ivory sanctuaries without baring themselves to vigorous peer review by neurobiologists, gen |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 15 August 2010
Fairfax, VA, USA. It is always difficult when discussing humanity — Homo Sapiens as a species — to separate what is biologically driven from what is culturally imposed.
There are genetic and hormonal differences between boys and girls. There are deep seated cultural norms that cause parents raise male and female children differently. Research shows that boys and girl gravitate towards different toys. A culturally driven outcome perhaps, but young male and female chimps and other prim |
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 Coleen Kivlahan and Nate Ewigman Saturday, 26 June 2010
London, UK. Rape is deployed as a weapon of war in countries throughout the world, from Bosnia to Sudan, Peru to Tibet. [R1] Rape includes lack of consent to sex as well as provision of sex to avoid harm and obtain basic necessities. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court recognises that rape and other forms of sexual violence by combatants in the conduct of armed conflict are war crimes and can constitute genocide. [R2]
Sexual violence such as forced marriage, female genit |
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Rev. Cathryn Platine Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
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G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young Sunday, 22 August 2010 |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 08 August 2010
Fairfax, VA, USA. Those of us who learned to pass as male, who learned to playact so we could meet however uneasily the expectations of our parents and grandparents, our priests and ministers, our friends and our culture, somehow survived our less ... |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 01 August 2010
Fairfax, VA, USA. I am not one of the most beautiful women in the world, but then who is?
Forty years ago, when I was a sweet young thing, the only olive skinned women on the cultural radar were Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.
I was neither.
Medi... |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 25 July 2010
Fairfax, VA, USA. Women on women, girls on girls, boys on girls and women. Around and around and around and around. What is the default setting for human female sexuality?
Suppose the permanent default position for human female sexuality is bisexu... |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Fairfax, VA, USA. I remember when mother subscribed to Sports Illustrated [N1]. It was something all the other young “boys” were eager to read.
My father was rather geeky — a self-taught amateur radio ham and a broadcast radio and television... |
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 Jayashree Vivekanandan Monday, 19 July 2010
New Delhi, India. Nanotechnology's potential to improve public health will be maximised only with a conducive environment. There are around five billion people in the developing world who could benefit from the use of nanotechnology in key sectors ... |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Sunday, 18 July 2010
Fairfax, VA, USA. The high priestesses of gender theory produce impenetrable academic bulls well ornamented with academic abstruseness meant to distract the reader from the emptiness of their pretty papers.
Those enlightened few, trapped high in t... |
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 Lisa Jain Thompson Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Fairfax, VA, USA. In the world of the gender theory, there is no greater fashion expert than a professional drag queen, as they should be. Their performance quality, and the tips they might receive, depends on the theatrical perfection of their app... |
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 TS-Si News Service Monday, 30 August 2010
Geneva, Switzerland. A major humanitarian organization has performed close to 20,000 surgical procedures in resource-limited settings between 2001 and 2008 with an operative death rate of only 0.2 percent.
Of the 230 mil... |
 TS-Si News Service Thursday, 26 August 2010
Houston, TX, USA. The most robust statistical examination to date of our species' genetic links to mitochondrial Eve — the maternal ancestor of all living humans — confirms that she lived about 200,000 years ago.
The s... |
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 TS-Si News Service Wednesday, 01 September 2010
Houston, TX, USA. Interviews with 360 American leaders who are evangelical Christians finds enormous variety in how leaders engage their personal faith in workplace decision-making.
The study was the largest of its kind an... |
 TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 31 August 2010
East Lansing, MI, USA. People tend to pick their spouse based on shared personality traits, which upends the popular belief that married couples do not become more similar over time. A team led by researchers from Michigan ... |
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 Daniel C. Vock Sunday, 05 September 2010
Topeka, KS, USA. Besides Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, Kansas City law professor Kris Kobach may be the most visible supporter of Arizona’s recent law to discourage illegal immigration.
With a sterling resume and telegeni... |
 John Gramlich Saturday, 04 September 2010
Baton Rouge, LA, USA. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is ramping up pressure on the Obama administration over the BP oil spill — but not in the way that many people might expect.
Jindal is demanding that deepwater drilli... |
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