Category Archives: Sex and Gender

On the Dobbs Decision: It Can Happen, It Is Happening, Here

Posted on May 4, 2022 by Bob Shepherd

I’ve never liked the term unenumerated rights because the point is not whether they are numbered but whether they are expressed, so until now, I have avoided it in my comments on this decision. But that’s the standard legal term … Continue reading →

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Thank You Sonnet | Bob Shepherd

Posted on May 10, 2021 by Bob Shepherd

after Edna St. Vincent Millay Yes, it’s true, as you said, that after good sexthe world is heightened, clearer, a cineplex—as if a summer shower’s intercession washed clean the muddied, muddled doors of perception,but lest there be any misconstruction of … Continue reading →

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A Government That Looks like America

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Bob Shepherd

My Latina granddaughter, watching Kamala Harris being sworn in as Vice President of the United States.

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Are We Failing Our Boys?

Posted on March 24, 2019 by Bob Shepherd

We are making admirable strides toward redressing millennia of gender inequities, toward FINALLY not shutting women out of government, business, universities, the arts, and so on. Of course, we’re far from there yet, as a glance at the sea of … Continue reading →

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The Most Astonishing Anthropological Fact That I Know

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Bob Shepherd

At one point about 7,000 years ago, and for a period of about 2,000 years thereafter, the percentage of human males having offspring was reduced to 1 in 20 in Europe, Asia, and Africa, while female reproducers remained at previous … Continue reading →

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Casey

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Bob Shepherd

In my neighborhood, when I was a little, there was another kid, a gentle, kind kid whom I’ll call Casey, who was born, biologically, a boy but always wanted to dress as a girl and to cook and sew and … Continue reading →

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Wooing, Dating, Hooking Up

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Bob Shepherd

Choose one and be immediately teleported to that time. Wooing 1880s: Boy walks to girl’s house, carrying bouquet of wildflowers. Boy and girl sit in the parlor across from her parents. She serves him tea and little cakes and plays … Continue reading →

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Grrls Aren’t Like Us | A Short Story | Bob Shepherd

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Bob Shepherd

“Hi. We haven’t met. I’m Shiela, Malcolm’s Mom.” “Oh. OK. I’m Renee. Jason said you were going to call.” “So, you’re letting your son go to this thing?” “Sure. Why not?” “Well, I don’t know. I worry. This kind of … Continue reading →

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MONOGAMY: A One-Act Screenplay | Bob Shepherd

Posted on March 17, 2019 by Bob Shepherd

A holographic virtual classroom meeting on a lawn on Kizhi Island in Lake Onega, Russia, 2059 CE, the onion-shaped domes of the Transfiguration Church in the background. Thirteen students, attending via remote presence avatars, sit in a circle, their professor’s … Continue reading →

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Is Sexual Orientation Innate?

Posted on March 17, 2019 by Bob Shepherd

The stench of racism wafting from the speech of Donald trump has brought a lot of racists scurrying out of the woodwork and into our newsfeeds. Consequently, a lot of us have been wondering about what we can do to … Continue reading →

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