He’s Just Had Coffee

Some time ago, a character hopped onto the Sexual Racism list I run at Yahoo groups with a fairly detailed rebuttal to some of the material on my Sexual Racism Sux page. I decided to pull his posting to bits and Andy, bless him, put my argument up on his web page. I just went […]

Something I posted to one of my lists this morning that I enjoyed writing a great deal. On 22/01/2006 Craig wrote: Many people have a hard time accepting the concept of White Priviledge, and get hostile about it. When people of color are rejected or ignored, race might be a factor. You can […]

Sorry for the break, I’ve been busy shifting things to Wordpress 2.0, which makes a surprisingly nice mini-CMS. First I shifted this blog and then I moved my Sexual Racism Sux project over. Finally, I got around to starting my new fitness blog project, which I haven’t launched yet. I’ll announce it here when I do. In amongst […]

I love facial blend projects. I saw a lovely project that blended faces from different suburbs in Brisbane to make average faces from places like Inala and Redcliffe. The artist (whose name I tragically can’t recall) researched the demographics in each place: gender balance, proportions from different ethnic backgrounds, age curve and then picked a […]

From RACE - The Power of an Illusion . Background Readings | PBS: From here we see the structuring of the ideological components of “race.” The term “race,” which had been a classificatory term like “type,” or “kind,” but with ambiguous meaning, became more widely used in the eighteenth century, and crystallized into a distinct reference for Africans, Indians and […]

Commonly held stereotypes about Asian men include that they’re not masculine, that they’re small and that they have no beards or body hair. Street life in inner city Sydney has many examples of tough, macho, masculine looking and acting Asian guys, hairy and bearded Asian guys (including gay Asian men on the scene) and tall […]

The notion that the species “homo sapiens” is divided into significant groupings called “races”, each of which is associated with certain cultural traits, distinguishable by certain superficial physical features (hair colour, skin colour, eye shape, body hair and so on) and more or less homogenous is accepted by most of us ordinary folk. Among population biologists […]