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Concerns regarding the lack of effectiveness of gender reassignment
Looking at a Guardian study into the effectiveness of gender reassignment treatment.
:: STARTED BY pointless and uncalled for
:: 208 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:34 22.08.07
You say "cunt" like it's a bad thing...
The word "cunt" as a term of abuse. Acceptable or not? Political Correctness gone Bad or an attempt to reorder a man-made language? Should the feminists just get the Hell used to it and accept that female genitalia are weird and nasty?
:: STARTED BY ONLY NICE THINGS
:: 136 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:22 22.08.07
Student Confidence and the Class System
Thoughts arising from a blog posts - is confidence the one thing private schools have to market?
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:01 17.07.07
Political Correctness - collation and discussion
A thread that pulls together recent discussions of Political Correctness, aiming to provide both a resource and a location for further discussion.
:: STARTED BY ONLY NICE THINGS
:: 190 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:30 11.07.07
The subversion/ruining of useful concepts and ideas
How things one might otherwise be happy to support become tainted by over-use by people who abuse them.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:59 07.07.07
So, everybody's got some good in them...
Normally, an idea I can get behind. But sometimes... not so much. Keywords: Darfur, rebels, rape
:: STARTED BY wicker woman
:: 41 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:15 26.06.07
Your thoughts on paper, your thoughts on screen - still *your* thoughts?
Is your laptop your add-on brain?
:: STARTED BY We're The Great Old Ones Now
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:53 22.06.07
Privilege
Perhaps it's trivial, but I want to be able to think of broadening what is called 'privilege', not restricting it so that everyone is equally at a disadvantage. Am I being naive?
:: STARTED BY We're The Great Old Ones Now
:: 90 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:29 21.06.07
No Compromise? Limits of your ethical stance.
How far do you go with commitments to ethical living? How do you decide priorities when there are conflicts between your ethical positions, or with those of people you love?
:: STARTED BY aim for joviality (gone)
:: 22 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:11 17.06.07
Transactional analysis
Transactional analysis: Fast-food psychotherapy for the wise (and poor), or pop-psychological fuckbakery...?
:: STARTED BY captain piss
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:07 12.06.07
Loltheorists [PICS]
loltheorists, lolcats, kitteh, etc.
:: STARTED BY Disco is My Class War
:: 44 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:18 02.06.07
Humanism
What is Humanism and am I a Humanist?
:: STARTED BY lord henry strikes back
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:20 26.05.07
Effective anti-smoking campaigns
can it be done? memtics? marketing? both? none?
:: STARTED BY H3ct0r L1m4
:: 34 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:45 24.05.07
Edward Said on "Orientalism"
"The Orient (defined by Said as the Middle East) is not only adjacent to Europe; it is also the place of Europe's greatest and richest and oldest colonies , the sources of its civilisations and languages, its cultural contestant, and one of its deepest and most recurring image of the Other."
:: STARTED BY agapanthus
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:42 24.05.07
Question for those still trying to understand foucault
If one had to write about Foucault's "discourse" where would one begin?
:: STARTED BY Jackie Susann
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:37 12.05.07
bdsm questions?
Why do people like it? Is it physical sensations? Emotional connections? Messing about psychological or societal positioning? Does it intersect with intellectual positions you hold? Or with therapeutic/self-actualisation stuff? Because its naughty?
:: STARTED BY hoopla
:: 165 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:40 09.05.07
The Psychology/Politics of Humor/Laughter
anyone know of any good resources about the topic?
:: STARTED BY TeN
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:53 29.04.07
The Consolations of Philosophy
Philosophy- why bother?
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 52 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:25 28.04.07
Desire and its end — judgment, final cause, …
What are the dimensions of the need for humans to accurately represent desire? Is it possible for biological research to inform this judgment, or would an appeal to biology be mischaracterize the nature of the final cause we seek by returning to the realm of the efficient cause (ala the punch in the face). Would an appeal to psychology be any better or would it run the same risk? Is there a moral dimension — a duty to oneself to get it right? Is there an ontological dimension, concerning the reality of ideas, or the degree of reality in a thing (like a desire)?
:: STARTED BY SMS
:: 19 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:17 16.04.07
Circumcision
Why is it that Western society sees male circumcision as an acceptable practice, when female circumcision/clitorodectomy is seen as barbaric? Is it still true that most males born in American hospitals are circumcised as a matter of course?
:: STARTED BY The Planet of Sound
:: 211 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:42 06.04.07
SBR: Conceptions of Love
Discussion how different cultures and subcultures define "love".
:: STARTED BY The Huge Manatee (is gone)
:: 13 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:30 01.04.07
Un-Schooling
The writings of John Taylor Gatto; the rival merits of unschooling, homeschooling, and conventional education.
:: STARTED BY Matthew Fluxington
:: 48 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:46 29.03.07
Contraception and consequence
A thread to discuss the planning and care required for what is, as often as not, spontaneous and careless.
:: STARTED BY JOY NO WRY
:: 67 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:55 27.03.07
Hakim Bey, Pederasty, and the difference between the Work and the Author.
Hakim Bay writes a mulitude of articles for nambla. Jared finds out, and is very confused.
:: STARTED BY Jared Louderback
:: 60 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:20 27.03.07
Born in the USA
why is globalised racism against the USA, or American-bashing, seemingly allowed?
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 78 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:02 15.03.07
What would a (complete?) metaphysical system look like?
Some people have said that a complete metaphysical system is impossible. How on earth could we possibly know?
:: STARTED BY SMS
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:24 11.03.07
Jean Baudrillard - 1929-2007
A tribute to a great philosopher
:: STARTED BY dogwonder
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:15 09.03.07
Genderless/Gender-neutral pronouns, "he", "she", "them" and "they", and broader gender issues in language.
The use, or not, of coinings such as "ze" or "hir" in language, what it is intended to achieve and whether it is advisable or desirable.
:: STARTED BY ONLY NICE THINGS
:: 169 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:40 08.03.07
Anna Nichole
I'm just interested if anyone else cares about Common Law.
:: STARTED BY Daemon est Deus Inversus
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:05 27.02.07
My head, it breaks with all the ideas
Discussion about TED, inspiring speaking, motivation, creativity and exclusivity.
:: STARTED BY Happy Dave Has Left
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:18 18.02.07
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