“Look at this. I’m a grocery item. I’m a piece of meat. I’m an orange.”
A 13-year-old girl at Brittan Elementary School in Sutter, California, outraged at being given an electronic tag to monitor her movements in school (San Francisco Chronicle, 10 February)
“They reacted like men faced with a large billboard of a lingerie model.”
Neurobiologist Michael Platt at Duke University in North Carolina, describing how male monkeys take a voluntary cut in their fruit juice allowance to look at pictures of female monkeys’ bottoms and high-status males (The Observer, London, 13 February)
“We don’t know if the three male pairs are really gay or…
