So, Allyson! I pre-ordered your book today, but in my little local bookshop. I was trying to find out if they planned on stocking it, but the girl who was in today is not the Decider, but she made a note of it. And I was chatting with her about it, and by the time I got done she was so excited about your book I think she's going to order a copy for herself, too!

I just clicked over and read the post and the replies. Gah, people can be so fucking STUPID. And the fact that that guy replied with "yeah right" to Allyson makes me want to scream. Look, asshat, you're proving her point. If you're assuming that the reason she's objecting to the model is because she is so very jealous of the model's body, then you are acknowledging that the ad is USING the model's body in order to sell a product.

What would be nice is if women were not constantly faced with objectifying images of other women and made to feel that we have to compete with each other all the time...and not compete in healthy ways (through our brains or wit or strategizing), but purely through physical appearance.

Academ~ma to ND.

I have a vague recollection of a furor (or at least discussion) over a telescope ad in Sky & Telescope over a decade (or two?) ago. I need to ask my dad, as he probably was the one to mention it.

So, Allyson! I pre-ordered your book today, but in my little local bookshop. I was trying to find out if they planned on stocking it, but the girl who was in today is not the Decider, but she made a note of it. And I was chatting with her about it, and by the time I got done she was so excited about your book I think she's going to order a copy for herself, too!

Ah ha! Thanks for reminding me, Liese--I did the same thing at Vromans the other day. (I also told them, Allyson, that they should really have you up for a reading since you're local and have "a significant local following already." Yeah, I'm a doof, but it would rock if it worked.)

Yay, Kathy! I'm so impressed, I really am; I can't get to the gym for anything. You're really doing great!

From Conservapedia...

From bias in Wikipedia section.

Unlike most encyclopedias and news outlets, Wikipedia does not exert any centralized authority to take steps to reduce bias or provide balance; it has a "neutral point of view" policy but the policy is followed only to the extent that individual editors acting in social groups choose to follow it. For example, CNN would ensure that Crossfire had a representative of the political right and one from the political left. In contrast, Wikipedia policy allows bias to exist and worsen. For example, even though most Americans (and probably most of the world) reject the theory of evolution,[6] Wikipedia editors commenting on the topic are nearly 100% pro-evolution.[7]

From Evolution Section.

Microevolution has indeed been seen and verified, and its effects can easily be viewed in the recent trends of bacterial diseases developing resistances to antibiotics. However, microevolution, nor evolution for that matter, ever purports to claim that a dog will become a cat over time. Instead, modern science considers macroevolution, which has also been empirically observed[1], to simply be microevolution on a large scale, where many cumulative differences spawning from microevolution cause an organism to branch off into two distinct cousin species.

It was a stronger endorsement, but the article changed while I was making the post.

Oops...wrong thread.

Allyson, I mentioned your book to two krav instructors--one's a TV producer, and the other one's in the biz too, but I forget how. Neither of them have a clue about fandom, but the producer (who's auditioned Colin) had some vague idea I counted TV as a hobby.

Then she asked why I wasn't looking for work in the field. I told her I much preferred backseat driving to putting my money where my mouth is.

Oh, and she thinks the casting of Fillion over Sergei is a good move. I think she'd seen the original pilot.

Oh, I am getting so into American Idol. I now know why this show gets thrice weekly Super Bowl ratings. Tonight had some real performances, and the banter is so weird but entertaining! Lakisha though: fucking wow. I can't believe I loved her more than Melinda and Sabrina Sloan and Stephanie Edwards. Another league indeed. Also so happy about the destruction of that awful Jersey girl.