Hadley Freeman this time suggesting why she thinks New York needs to pass the same sex wedding bill. The argument seems quite cogent to me, see what you think.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/...

Angharad.

Is it just me, or do we live in a society which is driven by shallowness and selfishness, powered by a media which has a constant need for stories — whatever their merit. We are no longer citizens but consumers — and boy, can we consume.

We’re stripping the planet of its resources faster than a swarm of seven billion locusts in our selfish and conspicuous consumption and possibly storing up a payback which will endanger if not destroy our successors.

A Guardian bike blog reporting that a dutch model was pulled over by a NYPD officer for cycling in a short skirt. Given that cyclists are booked for not cycling in bike lanes even when there are obstructions tends to show some inconsistency in policing.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2011/jun/15/...

Just to remind people that this is ongoing on the Guardian website with several episodes since it was last aired here including the McDonald's Baltimore special - 'Would you like your head kicked in with that, ma'am?'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/transgender

Now who would name a bike Tranny, apparently Ibis have. It's a mountain bike - not a cross one. Just to prove it, here's a link to a page on What Mountain Bike, who appear to like it.

http://www.chuckibis.com/chuck_spew/wp-content/uploads/2010/...

I want one!

Angharad.

Seems a very bizarre way to avoid arrest, especially as it failed. Now in TG fiction, she would have escaped and lived happily ever after. Real life is less predictable.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2001562/Now-thats-I-...

Angharad.

Thousands of women and girls were incarcerated in Magdalene laundries and the Irish government seems unwilling to apologise and compensate the remaining surviving victims. Given the recent scandals of the scale of child abuse there, this is yet another except it concerns only women and girls--which might explain why nothing is being done to compensate them.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/08/irealnd-...

Angharad.

Despite the criticism and even condemnation of this type of therapy, people are still doing it and getting away with it. It says more about the therapist than the client.

This article appeared in todays Guardian, it was quite interesting.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/27/gay-conversion-t...

Angharad.

Ths film is on BBC iplayer at the moment for those who can access it and those who like body swap stories - about a boy and a girl who hate each others guts but end up in each other's bodies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00k7b6d/Its_a_Boy_Girl...

It's American but Sharon Osbourne has a part in it!

Angharad

It appears for socio-culural reasons, many Indians find the idea of having girl babies unpalatable and these foetuses are being destroyed before birth by abortion.

Now I know abortion is a hot topic, especially in the US, and I admit being a well meaning Guardian reader, I'm pro-choice - but I find this practice abhorrent - and extremely short sighted as eventually, there will be a shortage of women for men to marry.