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When it is after midnight and you see a lady you do not know walking down the street with a six-pack, it is never appropriate to holler after her. It is especially never appropriate to follow her and call out about buying one of her beers. It is least appropriate to attempt to open the door to her apartment building if you do not catch up to her in time to, what? Tap her on the shoulder? Grab her arm? Wave your hand in front of her face? Engage her in unwanted conversation?

You and I, sir, we are not interacting. If you force an interaction, you will not like what you get. We are not even going to talk about how much you shouldn't be doing what you are doing. I am ignoring you ON PURPOSE.

Also, my beer is too good for you.

the hedge abides.

This is absolutely disgusting. "Oh! It's so amazing! TWO WOMEN will be in command of spacecraft AT THE SAME TIME!"

Yeah. Amazing. It only took MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS to get there.

Honey, that's not amazing for the reason you keep exclaiming over.

After all that women's lib, all that work to make sure that women in academia get access to the same resources and the same promotions that men do, all the women in the workplace today, and there are still only 18 women who are astronauts, and 73 men? And we still talk about whether the astro-women are married and have kids, but that's hardly a requisite point in any article about astro-men.

Mya would tell me that I'm being oversensitive here, but I really don't see how that is true. How can you look at numbers like that and not see that there is still a huge discrepancy in how women are treated? What year *is* this?!

the hedge abides.

Current Mood: pissed off

Many of you may be interested in this article about trans students at women's colleges:
When She Graduates as He.

Mya and I went to see "The Last King of Scotland" at the Riverview this weekend. It was... graphic.

I also have new jeans and a raincoat which is exciting.

Medical school is frustrating. I need to take another semester of college classes before I'll be able to get in, which is both a logistical nightmare and another delay. Aargh.

Now I should read this exciting review paper. And analyze my RIA data.

I study neural control and circadian regulation of the adrenal stress response. What exactly do you guys think I do over the course of a day? What is your understanding of scientific research in general? Science policy? Scientists?

the hedge abides.

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