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GenderVision: Sex & Gender

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Angry women viewed as incompetent

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Boys are failing in the classroom

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Clinton walks tightrope on strength and emotion

Be strong or show some emotion? Stick to policy or share your private life?

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton faces this challenge as she tries to become the first woman in the highest office in the land: how to appear human without appearing weak.

Clinton, a New York senator who has struggled to overcome public perceptions that she is aloof, peppered her speeches this week with references to her childhood and personal life in a twin effort to give substance to her policy goals while opening a window to her personal life.

Analysts say women running for office face a challenge their male counterparts do not in walking a line between exhibiting strength and showing their feelings.

The former first lady has largely favored strength, emphasizing her resume of experience and readiness to serve as commander-in-chief as she campaigns for the Democratic nomination to contest November's presidential election.

Still, a rare teary-eyed moment shortly before the New Hampshire nominating contest was widely credited with turning the result in her favor, handing her a much-needed victory over rival Barack Obama and rejuvenating her candidacy after a loss in the first nominating contest in Iowa that some predicted would be fatal to her presidential hopes.

Since then, that softer side has been on display less often during the see-saw battle with Obama, an Illinois senator seeking to become the first black U.S. president, while her experience argument has produced some holes.

Clinton was forced to back away from her claim that she came under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia in 1996 while she was first lady after a video contradicted her version.

"So I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I'm human which, you know, for some people, is a revelation," she told reporters on Tuesday.

Is it a revelation? Maybe not. But even supporters say they would like to see more of the 60-year-old candidate's human side.

"She seems standoffish to ... the public, like when she's on television," said Stacey Barron-Salvio, 39, a Clinton supporter and mother of six who was attending a rally in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

"I've never heard her really talk about her personal stories that much. I think if she showed some of those personal sides -- even if there are some flaws -- it makes her look more human and it makes her appeal to more people."Be strong or show some emotion? Stick to policy or share your private life?... more

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Sexualization of young girls can spark insecurity, perfectionism, experts say

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Sexual Selections, What We Can and Can't Learn about Sex from Animals

I liked the title "Show me your plummage!" as well =P but...

This article titled "Spitzer's not-so-biological urge" by L.A. Times writer Jennie Dusheck is a stimulating, if somewhat sobering, look at Marlene Zuk's excellent "Sexual Selections, What We Can and Can't Learn about Sex from Animals." Zuk, a professor of biology at UC Riverside takes a more logical and analytic approach on the inspiration of male (and evidently female) infidelity.

"It's hardly news -- and it certainly doesn't take an advanced degree to figure out -- that powerful people [re: recent news regarding Spitzer's call-girl sex] feel more entitled than average people to do all sorts of things, sexual and otherwise. It's also been known for a very long time that EPCs ("extra pair copulations" i.e. polygamy) are common among most animals, even birds that biologists long assumed *were* monogamous.

"Zuk tells a very funny story about research on red-winged blackbirds and some 1950s-style assumptions about how a proper stay-at-home female red-winged blackbird would behave. As late as the 1970s, male biologists just assumed that female blackbirds would be sexually "faithful" (if you can even use such a word about birds) and that a male with lots of chicks on his territory was, by definition, a reproductive success -- a stud in the world of ornithology.

"But the advent of DNA fingerprinting revealed the appalling fact that female birds regularly copulated with other males and the chicks in a male's territory weren't particularly likely to be his own. In short, the males were being cuckolded (and also cuckolding) on a massive scale. Decades of blackbird research was rendered meaningless almost overnight. Biologists initially reacted with actual hostility toward the female birds, as if the female birds had broken their little marriage vows, although the males were generally given a free pass for the same perfectly normal bird behavior.

"...But the real lesson from Zuk's book is that it's far too easy and tempting to choose just-so stories from animals whose behavior happens to support our personal biases. Don't do it -- for every animal that does something you approve of, there are 10 that do something you hate...

"It shouldn't be news to us that infidelity -- whether by men or women -- has roots in biology." But adds Dusheck, "Nor is it an inescapable consequence of celebrity and power." Which is a point particularly well-taken by a majority of Americans if you haven't already "heard"... I liked the title "Show me your plummage!" as well =P but... This... more

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Musical Taste

Do men and women have different responses to music? Are women typically more... more

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1943 guide to hiring women

...before the age of bcc: emails and harassment lawsuits, office memos were just funnier.

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Does biology or society have a stronger influence on the development of our gender identity?

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Making a comeback: Male belly dancers in Egypt

Male belly dancing, a centuries-old Egyptian tradition, is making a comeback - against... more

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Ladies Choosing Jobs Before Bobs

A new survey indicates a shift in priorities, with men indicating a greater... more

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Calif. Anti-Bias Bill Causes Stir Over 'Gender'

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Wellesley Girls Experiment With Heterosexuality

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The Feminine Critique - What's a Working Woman to do?

This enlightening, if somewhat disheartening article brings up some very interesting... more

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Watercoolered: The CIA's Double Secret Probation

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Women in Audio Recording

Women make up less than 5% of the audio recording industry. I had to know why. It was... more

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River

Gender is not a static state of being. Many of the documentaries I have seen about... more

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Thorn In Your Side

A gender-bending view of the world from the San Francisco Trans March.

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Her Depot?

Lumber is out flowers are in. The Home Depot in Concord, CA is getting a makeover in... more

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Ms Pacman, feminist icon

Celebrating 25 years of the 'subtly subversive' Ms Pacman...

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