Bringing up Salamanders

We've been feeding the birds every morning with cornmeal, placing it on the neighbor's water tank lid in front of the house. They go crazy for it, coming in flocks. Sometimes I can spot 12 sparrows and small doves fighting to get some. It's very sweet...

Which leads me to this...
Andrew Smith is a popular American author who recently was interviewed by Vice and at some point he was asked, "On the flip side, it sometimes seems like there isn't much of a way into your books for female readers. Where are all the women in your work...

I think that extremism is bad, no matter the circumstance.
That's why I don't like machismo and feminism. Because they're extremes, far apart, building barriers, fueling anger, nurturing misogyny and misandry, building even higher, dangerous barriers....

Soooo recently Amanda Palmer was criticized as not being a real feminist for showing public displays of affection towards her man. They said, "If you happen to be an internationally adored cabaret artist, is probably not to coo and gaze adoringly at...