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Ninja has finally finished reading Norah Vincent’s Self Made Man and shares her’s and other readers’ views on the book. 28 minutes or thereabouts listeners.

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The lesbian brain is like a straight man’s. One of your fingers proves that you’re gay. Homophobia in the workplace. Lesbians who fail home economics.

Two Gay Games: One hosted by the Federation of Gay Games in Chicago and the other in Montreal by GLISA (Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association). What a mess.
25:07 minutes

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Ninja muses on the many forms her fifteen minutes of fame take. Next Special K and Ninja tackle some serious issues. Then they leave you with a delightful discussion on the relationship between happiness, the future and nut burying. Is the human being really the only animal that thinks about the future? Famous African policitians mentioned: Jacob Zuma. Canadian Beauty Queens mentioned: Nazanin. Sociopolitical issues mentioned: AIDS, rape. Harvard Professors mentioned: Daniel Gilbert. 29:53 Minutes

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Some speculations about the new book some are calling a “gimmick memoir”: Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Journey Into Manhood and Back Again by Norah Vincent. Another take on the passion up on Brokeback Mountain and the music of T.S. Eliot.

18:15 minutes

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Ninja talks about the importance of your voice. She thinks you deserve to be heard. Your opinion matters. How important it is for you to be counted. She segues into the mysteries and annoyance of that social phenomenon called bullshit and offers up some entertaining details from Laura Penny’s fabulously written book Your Call is Important to Us. Famous politicians mentioned: Barney Frank, Pierre Elliot Trudeau. 2005 Best Sellers mentioned: On Bullshit.

30:43 minutes.

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