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Feminism vs. femininity
In the impressive follow-up to her anti-monogamy polemic, Laura Kipnis explains why we feel a little uneasy when the possessor of a brand-new boob job proclaims, "I did it for myself."
By Laura Miller [2006-10-18]

  • This is sooooo 1971...

    Dichotomy

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    A dichotomy is any splitting of a whole into exactly two non-overlapping parts.

    In other words, it is a mutually exclusive bipartition of elements. i.e. nothing can belong simultaneously to both parts, and everything must belong to one part or the other. They are often contrasting and spoken of as "opposites." The term comes from dichotomos (divided): dich- ([in] two) temnein (to cut).

    -- Gordon Wagner
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    Wednesday, October 18, 2006 05:30 AM
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