eNom vs. OpenSRS

I have been an active registrant and reseller with eNom since 2000. In that time I have witnessed eNom go from a small company in Seattle to a large firm with multiple divisions as part of Demand Media. I have gone from having a personal e-mail address for high level executives to having to resort […]

Making Microsoft Word Usable

Lately I have been spending a lot of time in Microsoft Word 2010 for various tasks that are academic, and I have noticed that the 3 installations of Word I run all seem to start off with great amounts of annoying. To make Word more usable I have taken the following steps: Set default font […]

What if ‘we’ are wrong?

What if homosexuality is not normal and natural? What if there is a reason for the gender divide? The more I read for my classes in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies the more I am beginning to question everything. The readings and theories go as far as claiming that physical sex is a social construct. […]

SOCY 6895 Paper Outline

brought to you by Livescribe This project is starting to come together, mentally at least. There are still so many articles to read and so many things to review. There will also be a bit of concluding research. I am personally happy that I managed to get this outline out. It is rough and will […]

What I Know About Sex and Gender.

[Cross Post: http://www.masculineimagery.net/?p=12] When I began the certificate program in Gender Studies I accepted that I did not know a lot about gender, and probably even less about sexuality. Before I began the program I accepted that men have a penis and women have a vagina. This was my essential “truth” of sex. I also […]

Fall 2011 Semester Papers

Tutorial in Sociology [SOCY 6895] – Final paper only. Topic Sociology of Masculinity. The specifics are not yet determined, but the paper will focus on the Western conception of masculinity in its hegemonic form and in alternative forms. Introduction to Lesbian and Gay Studies [WGST 2050] – 3 papers (2 req, 1 EC). Topics selected […]

Floating Above Myself

I’m sitting in the student union in the balcony around the rotunda. I’m in the perfect spot to be a passive observer to the social interactions and other things happening below me.  I am not an active participant, only an observer. I am sitting above the activity trying to focus on academic work (that focus […]

Why Masculine Studies?

[Cross Post with: http://www.masculineimagery.net/?p=10] Why did I choose to focus on masculine studies, when it seems that feminist theory is where everything is? The simple answer is because I feel that masculinity is where the social problems originated. There are social difficulties because of hegemonic masculinity. This is the problem for non-whites in western culture, […]