Giving up on some comments...

[azurelunatic]

shadesong: Got a friend who's female, but without much in the way of a vagina, and completely without the uterus. Biology is weird. XX and XY is really the way to mostly tell biologically, and even then there are weird things that go on... all the edges are fuzzy in the real world! yay!

Dear LJ: Either give the monkeys a raise, or fire them. Ow.

Dear Arizona Weather: Ow. Die.

Dear voter registration people by the library: you're cute.

Dear US citizens who aren't registered to vote: do it. Then remember to vote for someone you think will do a good job. Remember, the personal life of the candidate in question may or may not be relevant to whether they can do a good job representing the people they agreed to represent.

Comments

[boojum.livejournal.com]

On the first, it's neat reading how sex determination stuff has changed over time. I'm trying to remember the name of the nifty book that detailed some of it... my outdated books pending list says that it might have been _Sexing the Body_ by Anne Fausto-Sterling.

[azurelunatic]

Today I alarmed my roommate by speaking to him in a far deeper voice than my usual.

[greyowl.livejournal.com]

There's that one, and there's also _Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex_, by Alice Dreger. I think the second had more of the historical stuff. (Obviously, given the title, it deals mainly with boundary cases.)

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

Then remember to vote for someone you think will do a good job.

That's a nice idea in theory. It sort of requires one of the people running to be someone I think will do a good job though. Unfortunately, that is often not the case. Too often I feel like I'm stuck with choosing the lesser of the evils.