• Astarte of Utopian Hell wonders where women only organizations/groups/etc stop helping and start reinforcing the “women as Other” paradigm in her post Women’s Conferences.
• Over at kblog, kristy talks about Disparity in Asian-White Dating, focusing on how the media’s representation of Asian males, females, and interracial dating affects the numbers.
• Over at Brutal Women, Kameron discusses “girl crushes” and how everyone wants us to know that they’re “purely infatuation, not attraction”. Because attraction would be gay.
• Duke Ferris of Game Revolution brings us The Truth About Violent Youth and Video Games, an article examining violent crime rates and how they relate to the emergence of video game culture.

Because I know all of you missed it, Sunday Link Blogging is back! (Until I get too lazy to link posts and put it on hiatus again, that is.)

• Over at gendergeek, Emma discusses the links between Faith, terror and gender
• Jill at feministe brings us God Hates Dudes in Dresses, a critique of an article reporting on how Judeo-Christian (read: wingnut) “values” hate “transgenders” (read: cross-dressers).

• Ampersand of Alas takes on Gwen Stefani’s appropriation of Japansese “harajuku girl” culture as seen in a Salon article.
• Jenn at reappropriate posts a nice “can’t we all get just along?” style article on the “conscience clause” controversy: Religious Freedom, Pharmacists, and Me
• LegendaryMonkey over at Sudden Nothing writes on the problem of Girls and Games
• More on the Japan/China feud over at The Peking Duck (Japan apologizes to China – again) and East Asia Blog ( Japan – China : Yoshi’s Commentary).

• Astare addresses some more concerns about women and their participation in traditionally male oriented areas in Politics and Video Games, Part II over at Utopian Hell.
• In related news, Jane and ClockworkGrue over at game girl advance talk about new marketing ploys for the PSP with Pink for PSP and PSP Glamour: Will Anybody Care That You Liked Gaming Before It Was Cool?.
• Egalia posts one woman’s letter on female priests in her post Naming the Injustices: Where are the Women Priests? over at Tennessee Guerilla Women.
• Everybody is talking about the “morality” driven opposition to the HPV vaccine. Via Tennessee Guerilla Women, Alas, Pandagon, Echidne and probably some others that I missed.
• Over on the East Side, the blogsphere is buzzing with news and opinions on the problems betwen China and Japan: A bunch of posts over at East Asia Blog, More Protests in Shanghai at The Paper Tiger, and Where’s the referee? over at The Peking Duck.