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- Wildrose or Staying Home (Lesbians only)
- Dicks or Vaginas
Sep 22
lizzie commented on As Slog's Resident Anti-Fat Bigot....
lizzie commented on As Slog's Resident Anti-Fat Bigot....
#23: It's a shortcut for ready-to-wear clothes. Just like men and some women's clothes are "M" "L" "XL" "XXL". Size numbers (dress sizes) are more specific and less judgmental. Tailored/custom clothes don't necessarily follow that sizing guideline and get more specific. There are also different fits on ready to wear styles (petite, tall, misses, juniors, etc.). Different clothing lines follow different fit ratios, which is why a lot of women are very loyal to certain brands/lines if they have a non-standard body type.
Sep 12
lizzie commented on On My Way to Work.
lizzie commented on On My Way to Work.
#43: Who is hiring poor immigrants or other poor people not part of mainstream white culture? Is Microsoft hiring uneducated poor people with accents? Is Boeing hiring uneducated poor people with accents? Amazon, Chase, Safeco, Harborview, Children's Hospital, Group Health, UW, King County, the City of Seattle? If you offer them a decent job and they refuse, then you can maybe complain about lazy poor people.
Sep 11
lizzie commented on The Morning News.
Give me a fucking break. No, you can't get swine flu from eating pork or chicken. Yes, swine flu was caused by the terribly packed and unhealthy conditions at pig and bird farms.
The Secretary of Agriculture should be working to prevent the next (worse) swine or avian flu by bettering the awful conditions at animal farms, like they have done in California. He should not be propping up factory bird meat or pork producers, which are the cause of the problem.
lizzie commented on The Morning News.
“By continuing to mislabel this pandemic H1N1 Influenza Virus, we’re affecting populations around the world. The media is causing, in my view, undue and undeserved harm to America’s agricultural industry, especially to the pork producers in the United States,” Vilsack said.
Give me a fucking break. No, you can't get swine flu from eating pork or chicken. Yes, swine flu was caused by the terribly packed and unhealthy conditions at pig and bird farms.
The Secretary of Agriculture should be working to prevent the next (worse) swine or avian flu by bettering the awful conditions at animal farms, like they have done in California. He should not be propping up factory bird meat or pork producers, which are the cause of the problem.
Sep 10
lizzie commented on The Results.
lizzie commented on The Results.
Can someone please write a Slog primer on intersexed people? You know, the "I" in LGBTI?
The six main biological determinants of sex/gender:
1) Gender identity - Mostly determined through genetics and prenatal (in womb) hormones.
2) Chromosomal - XX, XY, XO, XXY, XYY, XXX, XXXY, etc.
3) Gonads - Internal/external, ovaries/testes, typical/chimera, or none.
4) Internal genitalia - Fallopians, vas deferens, uterus, seminal vesicles, cervix, etc.
5) External genitalia - Penis, outer vagina, vulva, scrotum, etc.
6) Hormones - Testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, etc. These determine secondary sex characteristics as well as the structural brain "differences" between adult women and men. FTM's and MTF's show the same brain structure as cisgendered people after about 2 years of hormone treatment.
At least 2-3% of humanity have some intersex variation in one or more of these categories that is not the typical pattern. There are quite a few people who have variations from the "typical" chromosomal, hormonal, or internal organ structural and don't even know it. "True" hermaphrodites that have complete male and female external genitalia are extremely rare or possibly mythical.
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
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The six main biological determinants of sex/gender:
1) Gender identity - Mostly determined through genetics and prenatal (in womb) hormones.
2) Chromosomal - XX, XY, XO, XXY, XYY, XXX, XXXY, etc.
3) Gonads - Internal/external, ovaries/testes, typical/chimera, or none.
4) Internal genitalia - Fallopians, vas deferens, uterus, seminal vesicles, cervix, etc.
5) External genitalia - Penis, outer vagina, vulva, scrotum, etc.
6) Hormones - Testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, etc. These determine secondary sex characteristics as well as the structural brain "differences" between adult women and men. FTM's and MTF's show the same brain structure as cisgendered people after about 2 years of hormone treatment.
At least 2-3% of humanity have some intersex variation in one or more of these categories that is not the typical pattern. There are quite a few people who have variations from the "typical" chromosomal, hormonal, or internal organ structural and don't even know it. "True" hermaphrodites that have complete male and female external genitalia are extremely rare or possibly mythical.
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex
Sep 6
lizzie commented on Prosecutors Charge Another Participant in City Drug Intervention Program.
lizzie commented on Prosecutors Charge Another Participant in City Drug Intervention Program.
This comment thread made me sad. STOP ARRESTING DRUG USERS. SPD, you are supposed to help people. These people don't have any other economic opportunity. Provide them some other opportunity, or leave them alone and focus on actual crimes.
Sep 5
lizzie commented on So You're Rushing Around Trying to Think About Healthy Eating For Your Kids and You Have a Choice Between a Plastic Tub of Pre-Made Vanilla Cake Frosting Loaded with Trans Fats and a Punch in the Side of the Head....
lizzie commented on So You're Rushing Around Trying to Think About Healthy Eating For Your Kids and You Have a Choice Between a Plastic Tub of Pre-Made Vanilla Cake Frosting Loaded with Trans Fats and a Punch in the Side of the Head....
#6: The FDA already does pretty close to that.
http://web.archive.org/web/2007092913043…
"Sugar drink" would include all milk and juice -- they all contain a load of sugar by nature. Fructose = fruit sugar, lactose = milk sugar. The body can't tell the difference between fructose in 100% orange juice and fructose in added HFCS.
16oz servings:
soda pop: 194 calories
100% orange juice: 220 calories
100% apple juice: 240 calories
100% cranberry juice: 280 calories
nonfat milk: 180 calories
1% milk: 220 calories
2% milk: 260 calories
whole milk: 300 calories
water: 0 calories
http://web.archive.org/web/2007092913043…
"Sugar drink" would include all milk and juice -- they all contain a load of sugar by nature. Fructose = fruit sugar, lactose = milk sugar. The body can't tell the difference between fructose in 100% orange juice and fructose in added HFCS.
16oz servings:
soda pop: 194 calories
100% orange juice: 220 calories
100% apple juice: 240 calories
100% cranberry juice: 280 calories
nonfat milk: 180 calories
1% milk: 220 calories
2% milk: 260 calories
whole milk: 300 calories
water: 0 calories
Sep 2
lizzie commented on Today in Letting Children Do Whatever They Want.
lizzie commented on Today in Letting Children Do Whatever They Want.
This is great news. The "classics" that are required in most schools are racist, sexist garbage that focuses on the history and experiences of - guess who? - rich, white European Christian men. Fuck the traditional cannon - that is what social conservatives are pushing on all of society.
I was one of millions of kids who was required to read the Bible ("as literature") as part of mandatory public school classics. I found it less offensive than most of the other "classics" I was required to read.
I was one of millions of kids who was required to read the Bible ("as literature") as part of mandatory public school classics. I found it less offensive than most of the other "classics" I was required to read.
Aug 31
lizzie commented on McGinn and Mallahan Agree to More TV.
lizzie commented on McGinn and Mallahan Agree to More TV.
McGinn just released this cool web site to submit and vote on "ideas" for Seattle: http://www.ideasforseattle.org
Mallahan has a similar web site, full of "ideas" like "stop building bike lines!" and "throw crack smokers in jail!" and "why aren't you throwing crack smokers in jail!!!" http://joemallahan.ning.com/profiles/blo…
Mallahan has a similar web site, full of "ideas" like "stop building bike lines!" and "throw crack smokers in jail!" and "why aren't you throwing crack smokers in jail!!!" http://joemallahan.ning.com/profiles/blo…
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If you want unregulated free-market foods, you'll get something like the current herbal supplements market (although those are still prohibited from making "structure and function" claims). You'll get foods that aren't what they say they are, ridiculous health effects with no warning or recourse (like Zicam's permanent loss of smell), and ridiculous claims and lies of all kinds.
We need a LOT more food regulation against unscrupuous corporations, not less. I hope this guy wins.