tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349755132011-04-21T13:11:53.617-07:00Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17463451220494665441noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34975513.post-1159328559324601392006-09-26T20:28:00.000-07:002006-09-26T20:42:39.330-07:00A brief synopsis, in equation form:<br /><br />Lonely military wife + pet dog for companionship &amp; protection while her husband is away + peanut butter + fucked up = lost nipple + angry husband + dead dog = awesome!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34975513-115932855932460139?l=dazifudo.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17463451220494665441noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34975513.post-1159156332919620842006-09-24T20:35:00.000-07:002006-09-24T20:52:12.926-07:00One of the most interesting things I studied in college was the phenomenon of intersex births, or births in which the appearance of the genitals is not definitively male or female. Almost universally, the doctors and parents decide on one sex over the other, and after surgery (or surgeries) the child as raised as the selected sex. There are numerous ethical questions raised by this, however, and an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/magazine/24intersexkids.html">article in this Sunday's NYTimes magazine</a> does an okay job of bringing them to the awareness of public.<br /><br />Quoting <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</a>:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">According to the highest estimates (Fausto-Sterling et. al., 2000) perhaps 1 percent of live births </span>exhibit some degree of sexual ambiguity<span style="font-style: italic;">, and that between 0.1% and 0.2% of live births are ambiguous enough to become the subject of specialist medical attention, including surgery </span><span style="font-style: italic;">to disguise their sexual ambiguity.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span>Though unusual, intersex births are far from rare. So we are left with the question - do we raise intersex children as one gender or the other (decided by the parents and doctors), or do we raise them as "special" and let them decide their gender as they mature?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34975513-115915633291962084?l=dazifudo.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17463451220494665441noreply@blogger.com1