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• Harley Quinn's new 'outfit' is said in the article to be a'a corset and short skirt combo.' Because that really fits in with the Joker/playing cards/commedia dell'arte theme... Harley Quinn is one of my favourite comic-book characters, though it was
  (posted to Harley Quinn in Arkham Asylum )
• Adultery is illegal in South Korea, but not in Singapore. Sodomy between men is a crime, however. Urk. (Sorry for butting in with this, but as a Singaporean I felt prompted to nitpick.) Nonetheless, I do think it's *mostly* a
  (posted to Sexist/Racist Ad Watch: Skin Whitening Edition)
• Yeah, it's real, there was quite a fuss about it when it first appeared a year (or more? Can't remember) ago. It was all over the papers for about a week or so. Most of the fuss was over the
  (posted to Sexist/Racist Ad Watch: Skin Whitening Edition)
• I'm Singaporean, so I kind of remember when the ad first aired - it even appeared in the papers, if I remember aright. Can't recall it being pulled, though; but my memory's famously atrocious. Interesting, if that were indeed the
  (posted to Sexist/Racist Ad Watch: Skin Whitening Edition)
• The one-year passports were instituted, she said, after an Australian transsexual, forced to travel on a passport that identified her as male, was arrested in Singapore. Oh God. I don't think that was even in the local papers. No, I
  (posted to What We Missed)

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• I believe it's because trailers began as men only, so that is what is familiar to us. If we start to hear women's voices narrating movie trailers, it shortly won't seem like a big deal.games (posted to Unnoticed sexism: Movie Trailer Narrators)
• I've always said that I had 3 scientific heroes. Two of them are women: Marie Curie (her biography is great btw) and Jocelyn Bell. I was fortunate enough to meet and talk with Jocelyn in Adelaide last year and I (posted to Women in Math and Science)
• Although I definitely think the Republican backlash is partisan (if the bill endangered the rights of gay rights activists I don't think they would be so sympathetic) for me it's a freedom of speech/thought issue. I would completely support hate (posted to What We Missed)
• The hate crime bill also adds gender and disability. (posted to What We Missed)
• Wow, I sure am glad that this is being passed! I mean, after all.... Until this bill, violence against Homosexuals was Never prosecuted! I find it hard to believe that we can call this a "Civilized" society when Murdering Women, (posted to What We Missed)

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