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         <title>I&apos;m back!</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>I've <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000501.html">been busy</a> <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000497.html">for a while</a>, now. Should be back to posting some interesting (to me, anyway) reflections shortly, once I deal with the usual end of university year stuff, now that the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000501.html">final essay for the year</a> has been handed in. Yay!</p>

<p>In the meantime, I've written up at <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/"><cite><abbr title="the power house">tph</abbr></cite></a> a note on what appears to me to be the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000502.html">small sample size</a> in what <abbr title="Microsoft NBC">MSNBC</abbr> call a study on dress style and ovulation.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:10:51 +1200</pubDate>
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         <title>Yet another (American) university guide</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>This one has a criteria I hadn't thought of before -- a <a href="http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2006/08/08-09-06tdc/08-09-06dnews-04.asp" rel="nofollow">college guide for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students</a>.</p>]]></description>
         <link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/wisc/archives/safety/000485.html</link>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:36:36 +1200</pubDate>
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         <title>Intentions</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>While I have indeed <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000470.html">been busy with postgraduate school</a> and not posted much lately, I've set myself <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000472.html">two possible subjects of books to scan</a> for the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/"><cite><abbr title="Section 27(1)">S27(1)</abbr> and <abbr title="Public Domain">PD</abbr> Books</cite> pages</a>.</p>

<p>Hopefully inbetween all that and reading some books and journals on feminist pedagogy, I'll have time to post some news links again, too. Soonishly, I'm hoping.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:17:35 +1200</pubDate>
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         <title>&quot;Do you take care of men too?&quot;</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/opinion/17legato.html?ex=1308196800&amp;en=22e07f81c7fd2028&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss">From an (apparently female) doctor</a> writing in the <cite><abbr title="New York Times">NYT</abbr></cite>:</p>

<blockquote><p>Thinking about how we might correct the comparative vulnerability of men instead of concentrating on how we have historically neglected women's biology will doubtless uncover new ways to improve men's health — and ultimately, every human's ability to survive.</p></blockquote>

<p><strong>Reflective question:</strong> is she thinking of just the financing aspects of medical research, or is she indeed thinking of a bigger picture?<br />
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         <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 01:40:32 +1200</pubDate>
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         <title>&apos;Women attracted to men who like children, study shows&apos;</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/"><cite><abbr title="New Zealand Herald">NZH</abbr></cite></a>: <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&amp;ObjectID=10381275">Women attracted to men who like children, study shows</a>.</p>

<blockquote><p>Women can pick up cues about how men feel about children from their faces and use the subtle signs to rate them as potential partners, scientists said today.</p><p>The team of researchers from the United States showed that an affinity for children and male hormone levels play a role in determining how attractive men are to women.</p></blockquote>

<p><strong>Reflective question:</strong> really? Or are you sceptical about this?</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 16:06:04 +1200</pubDate>
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         <title>Dove returns, and &apos;that&apos; 25th anniversary</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Here we go again! There was <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000401.html">last year's appearance</a> of the Dove Firming billboards.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/nikster/gallery/v/gend-topics/billboards-october-november-2005/gend-topics_20051101_0177.JPG.html"><img src="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/nikster/gallery/d/29342-2/gend-topics_20051101_0177.JPG" width="240" height="180" alt="'New Dove Firming. As tested on real curves.' But who defines 'real curves'? Billboard advertisement on Lambton Quay, Wellington, above Burger King, opposite Midland Park." style="border: none" /></a></p>

<p>Now, in the last couple of months, we've got what methinks is the second part (I'm guessing) of the so-called '<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.co.nz/">Campaign for Real Beauty</a>' by the same outfit. After reading and hearing about standpoint theory in graduate class this week, I'm getting an idea of how someone might have thought of the campaign. Here is one typical of those being used.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/nikster/gallery/v/gend-topics/advertisements-december-2005-april-2006/IMG_6699.JPG.html"><img alt="'Freckled? Flawless? Does beauty mean looking like everyone else?' Dove advertisement on a Stagecoach Wellington bus, Willis Street." height="240" width="180" style="border: none" src="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/nikster/gallery/d/29785-2/IMG_6699.JPG" /></a></p>

<p>I do wonder, however, what's in it for Unilever, especially in a monetary sense?</p>

<p>It still doesn't beat this weird one that I also saw last year, though:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/nikster/gallery/v/gend-topics/billboards-october-november-2005/Picture_25_.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1"><img src="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/nikster/gallery/d/29349-2/Picture_25_.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Girl available for only $3.50. [Vodafone advertisement on a bus, Willis Street, Wellington.]" style="border: none" /></a></p>

<p>I just don't get it still. I'm glad they don't have it around Wellington any more.</p>

<p>While we're at it, on a completely unrelated topic, <acronym title="acquired immune deficiency syndrome">AIDS</acronym> won't be going away any time soon. <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12663345/site/newsweek/"><cite>Newsweek</cite>/<abbr title="Microsoft NBC">MSNBC</abbr> are reminding me</a> it's the twenty-fifth anniversary. It also suggests to me that <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12665685/site/newsweek/">women are far more vulnerable</a>, due to a multitude of factors. Perhaps most sobering is this quote from Melinda Gates.</p>

<blockquote cite="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12665685/site/newsweek/"><p>For millions of married women, abstinence is unrealistic, being faithful is insufficient and the use of condoms is not under their control.</p></blockquote>

<p>Yikes. <kbd lang="x-emoticon">:(</kbd></p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2006 00:03:22 +1200</pubDate>
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         <title>Condoms and civil unions</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Two related topics today...</p>

<p><abbr title="New Zealand Herald"><cite>NZH</cite></abbr>: <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/organisation/story.cfm?o_id=409&amp;ObjectID=10380093">Pope could be poised to sanction condoms</a>.</p>

<blockquote><p>The church is expected to give a guarded, provisional blessing to the use of condoms by married couples when one of them suffers from Aids, as a way of protecting the health of the other partner.</p><p>It is only a technical concession, based on two ancient principles, but, against the background of the stolid refusal by church authorities to countenance even the slightest deviation for more than a generation, it amounts to a revolution.</p></blockquote>

<p>Also: <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/organisation/story.cfm?o_id=409&amp;ObjectID=10379515">Civil disunion in church</a> and <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/organisation/story.cfm?o_id=409&amp;ObjectID=10379252">Smooth, smart, sophisticated -- it's the dapper Papa</a>. The latter...</p>

<blockquote><p>Conservative and reformist elements are pulling against one another in most of the Protestant churches, and also in the Catholic Church to an extent, he says.</p></blockquote>

<p>This one goes on to express concern by an Anglican cleric that the best way for Anglican parishes to act on civil unions is to leave it to individual parishes, or there will be the risk that those on the fringes, such as the rainbow community, might feel excluded.</p>]]></description>
         <link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/wisc/archives/christianity/000462.html</link>
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         <category>Christianity</category>
         <pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 13:49:01 +1200</pubDate>
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         <title>&apos;Thank you, governor, for women&apos;s rights&apos;</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>From a <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0422satlets221.html" rel="nofollow">letter published on the <cite>Arizona Republic</cite>'s website</a> on April 22, on Janet Napolitano:</p>

<blockquote><p>Each abortion bill she vetoed was irresponsible, forcing desperate women to jump through meaningless hoops simply because some do not agree with their rights to choose. The added suffering these already-pained women would be put through would be cruel and accomplish nothing, except to place women in the position of fighting for their constitutional rights as human beings, and to be afforded the same rights as each man has always had, to be in control of their own bodies.</p></blockquote>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 13:42:57 +1200</pubDate>
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         <title>Cardinal (apparently) backs condom use</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><cite><abbr title="New Zealand Herald">NZH</abbr></cite>: <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&amp;ObjectID=10378538">Senior Catholic backs use of condoms</a></p>

<blockquote><p>The former Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, said condoms, when used by married couples, were a "lesser evil" than passing on the disease to more people.</p><p>"A spouse infected with Aids is obliged to protect the other partner who also has to be able to protect herself," said the respected Jesuit prelate, who remains the most influential figure among Catholic liberals in spite of having retired from his tenure at the head of Italy's largest archdiocese.</p><p>Cardinal Martini's comments, published yesterday by L'Espresso magazine during a debate with a leading Catholic surgeon, Ignazio Marino, were in stark contrast to the staunchly conservative teachings of the Catholic Church.</p></blockquote>

<p>Cool! But I wonder what this actually means.</p>

<p>And, because I can't be bothered starting another entry for <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/"><cite><abbr title="the power house">tph</abbr></cite></a>: <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10378431">New book claims Bard the love child of English queen</a>. Right...</p>]]></description>
         <link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/wisc/archives/christianity/000459.html</link>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:47:44 +1200</pubDate>
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         <title>&apos;Sex with a robot?&apos; Huh?</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>What?</p>

<blockquote><p>When America's top sex researchers gathered recently to discuss the next decade in their field, some envisioned a future in which artificial sex partners could cater to every fantasy.</p><p>"What is very likely to be present before 2016 would be a multi-sensual experience of virtual sex," said Julia Heiman, director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, Bloomington.</p></blockquote>

<p>Now this is interesting... I'm just not sure in what way it is so...</p>

<p>From <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/"><cite><abbr title="Microsoft NBC">MSNBC</abbr></cite></a>: <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12356642/">Sex with a robot? Maybe not yet, but ...: Researchers ponder brave new world of technology-fueled sex.</a></p>]]></description>
         <link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/wisc/archives/sexuality/000456.html</link>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:06:16 +1200</pubDate>
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         <title>What is normal?</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Reflective question:</strong> Read a quiz that's been doing the rounds of e-mail forwards for some time now on <a href="http://billstclair.nfshost.com/blog/stories/heteroquiz.html" rel="nofollow"><q cite="http://billstclair.nfshost.com/blog/stories/heteroquiz.html">25 questions about heterosexuality</q></a> and ask yourself something. <em>What <strong>is</strong> normal?</em></p>

<p>If you get a 404, it seems available on other sites on a web search.</p>

<p>(I wonder if this Martin Rochin person I've seen on many of the forwards exists. My favourite love, Google, comes up with just the above 'quiz' on other sites. Odd.)</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:23:13 +1200</pubDate>
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         <title>Boston Catholic Charities Halts Adoptions</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Quote from Andrew Sullivan:</em> <a href="http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/03/the_church_and_.html">The Church and Adoptions</a> -- <q cite="http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/03/the_church_and_.html">The whole thing is sad. But that's what bigotry does. Cruelty begets cruelty. And all in the name of love.</q></p>

<p><strong>Reflective question:</strong> the state governor <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/10/ap/national/mainD8G8UM6O4.shtml">calls</a> it a 'mistake' to place <q cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/10/ap/national/mainD8G8UM6O4.shtml">the rights of adults over the needs of children</q>. In this case, is it?</p>]]></description>
         <link>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/wisc/archives/gay_rights/000448.html</link>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:12:22 +1200</pubDate>
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         <title>Text safety</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>A story from the <cite>Wairarapa Times-Age</cite> talks about what I hope is a one-off highlight of <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&amp;ObjectID=10371611">how serious</a> <a href="http://www.times-age.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3675365&amp;thesection=localnews&amp;thesubsection=&amp;thesecondsubsection=">bullying of <strong>any</strong> form</a> is terrible. It would be nice if people knew to back off when told to, but in this case, it does sound unfortunate.</p>

<p><strong>Reflective question:</strong> are what the <a href="http://www.netsafe.org.nz/mobilephone/mobilephone_default.aspx">Internet Safety Group</a>, <a href="http://www.vodafone.co.nz/aboutus/12.4.4.3_responsible_marketing.jsp?item=global&amp;subitem=responsible">Vodafone</a> and <a href="http://www.telecom.co.nz/content/0,3900,204239-204056,00.html">Telecom</a> doing in New Zealand to help alleviate (and hopefully eliminate) the problem of cellphone bullying enough?</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2006 19:44:05 +1200</pubDate>
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         <title>Assuming roles of &apos;surrogate men&apos;</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Elizabeth Gross, in her essay 'What is feminist theory?', makes an interesting thought about trying to make women equals with men in what she calls patriarchal theory. When they '[adopt] the role of (male) subjects of knowledge, women began to assume the role of surrogate men.' (<cite>Feminist Challenges: Social and Political Theory</cite>, 1986, page 192.)</p>

<p>On reflection of my first reading, I wonder if this is a good case for one creating their own knowledge. Such a statement probably has wider applicability to gender identities, too. I'm thinking this because of the difficulty many in the <abbr title="Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex">LGBTI</abbr> community whom I know that have had difficulty making their voices heard in the dominant social system.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:48:19 +1200</pubDate>
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         <title>30%!</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p>Listening to <a href="http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/lateedition"><cite>Late Edition</cite></a> on <a href="http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr">National Radio</a>'s <a href="http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/nights"><cite>Nights with Bryan Crump</cite></a> right now. If I heard the report correctly, it just said 30% of <abbr title="Human immunodeficiency virus">HIV</abbr> sufferers in New Zealand don't know they have contracted it. Yikes.</p>

<p>I'll try to remember to update with links if I find them.</p>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:38:12 +1200</pubDate>
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