Tag: gender barriers
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Sheep in Wolf Clothing
I suppose it has always happened -there’s very little that’s really new around; I still wonder why it’s necessary, though. Even through the lens of my white male privilege –my through-a-glass-darkly upbringing- I continue to wonder about these things. Why, for example, do I even have a lens? Was it necessary simply because in the […]
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Teenage Sexuality
It seems like every time I turn around nowadays, I learn something new about what my colleagues are doing -or not… A recent article published online in JAMA Pediatrics, Dec. 30/13 (abstract: http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1791584 ) suggests that we in the medical profession are not doing enough to disseminate information about sexual health -especially to teenagers. The study was […]