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	<title>Secular Apostasy</title>
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	<description>an apostate from secular humanism, radical feminism, and progressive liberalism</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>I am Sarah Palin and that is why I don&#8217;t like her.</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/i-am-sarah-palin-and-that-is-why-i-dont-like-her/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can see myself wielding my fecundity against other conservative women as a sort of morality trump card (I am clearly more Christian/more moral/more family-oriented/etc COS I GOTZ FIVE KIDS BIATCH!).  I can see myself finding out the hard way that while I was pretty good looking (enough to win or place well in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes a picture is worth 100000 words.</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/sometimes-a-picture-is-worth-100000-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This image, from the Field posting about Ms. Palin, is worth a hundred times the usual thousand words, especially in light of the way evangelicals rushed to view a white lady and her kid as image-bearers of God when they could not do the same for others of less pale and middle class persuasion.
I&#8217;m a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christianity and same sex desire</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/christianity-and-same-sex-desire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:54:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>torduange</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to experience homosexual love, as opposed to just the desire.  I don&#8217;t tend to write about that side of my sexuality because I just don&#8217;t have affinity with bisexual or lesbian women who love other women.  It is a circumstance where I sympathise and wish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mormons are not Christians.</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/mormons-are-not-christians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only reason they are considered fully Christian and not a &#8216;cult&#8217; like Santeria often is considered would be because it&#8217;s a bunch of blond, blue-eyed white people practicing heresy.  Mormonism is very much a religion that borrowed a fair bit from Christianity, but it is not itself Christian.  It really would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Review&#8211; X-Files: I want to believe</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/movie-review-x-files-i-want-to-believe/</link>
		<comments>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/movie-review-x-files-i-want-to-believe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been away from blogland for long enough.  Here&#8217;s a spoiler-free movie review of sorts. But first some background:
Being an X-files fan from back in the day, I was obliged to see the new movie that was randomly sprung on summer crowds.  It was quite the stealth attack advertising campaign.  Just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I used to write fiction.</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/i-used-to-write-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 08:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>torduange</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been blogging in a very intermittent and unsteady fashion for the last yearish now.  Additionally, I have a few other spots on the internets where I post comments and such more than a bit.  However, for the time of official blogging, I have pretty much stopped writing fiction.  Every couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shoeboy&#8217;s Law of science fiction series</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/shoeboys-law-of-science-fiction-series/</link>
		<comments>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/shoeboys-law-of-science-fiction-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>torduange</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://torduange.wordpress.com/?p=120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Any sufficiently lengthy science fiction series will degenerate into sexual wish fulfillment for the book&#8217;s author.
The canonical examples of Shoeboy&#8217;s Law are the Dune series, which includes such things as Amazons from space enslaving the human race with Tantric sex and the Ringworld series, which pretty much degenerates into the hero having sex with bearded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Authenticity Cult in sexwork sucks.</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/the-authenticity-cult-in-sexwork-sucks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 23:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title says it all.  There are plenty of other authenticity cults, such as the one that says you have to have been a drug addict or regular user to write about it.  Or the one that says you have to have given birth to write about it.  And so on.  
It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is reproductive freedom?</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/what-is-reproductive-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I question the right to abortion.  I don&#8217;t question it out of jealousy or resentment or a desire to keep women &#8216;in their place&#8217;.  I question it because I question a societal circumstance that leads women to believe that an instance of pregnancy is a disaster that must be dealt with by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vitamin D, black American women, and fibroids</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/vitamin-d-black-american-women-and-fibroids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 18:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a mystery to the American medical establishment why black American women got fibroids at rates far higher than white American women&#8211; some estimates run as high as 70%.  It&#8217;s also been a mystery why black American men get higher rates of prostate cancer.  
It&#8217;s the Vitamin D (or lack thereof). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop calling Prostitution the World&#8217;s Oldest Profession</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/stop-calling-prostitution-the-worlds-oldest-profession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 08:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prostitution (and for that matter, all the rest of sexwork) isn&#8217;t the world&#8217;s oldest profession.  In fact, the winknudge aspect of that whole association is remarkably non-respectful of womens&#8217; ability to get along in the world using something other than sexual service.  In the history of the world, women have been valued for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Reminder from Ecclesiastes</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/a-reminder-from-ecclesiastes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2011:5;&#38;version=47
&#8220;As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.&#8221;
This is the kind of Bible verse cherrypicked by science-worshipping atheists to demonstrate that Christians are inherently opposed to science.  Because in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexwork is not transgressive, but socially normative.</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/sexwork-is-not-transgressive-but-socially-normative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 06:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>torduange</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://torduange.wordpress.com/?p=113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In agreeing to participate in any form of sexwork, one is agreeing to rules and roles that are demarcated by society.  They are rules that can be bent a little here and there, but it&#8217;s deceptive to claim sexworking is a transgression or flouting of social conventions.  Sexwork is part of the social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Influence is more than statcounter results.</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/influence-is-more-than-statcounter-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>torduange</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the (white) femblogosphere, the latest whitegirl idiocy is the Pandagon writer Amanda Marcotte not noticing racist cartoons being published in her book.  I was fool enough to post a bit in the comments.  The primary thing I got into commenting about was, well, stats and how they are a measure of influence. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assorted thoughts on sexuality and sex education.</title>
		<link>http://torduange.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/assorted-thoughts-on-sexuality-and-sex-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A heavily edited assemblage of comments I made about sexuality a while back, edited to include the new information I have about fertility awareness and also a bit for cogence.  I apologise in advance for any lack of focus, since many of these &#8216;grafs were responses to others&#8217;.  But I want the general [...]]]></description>
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