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  • And unto them was born a son – yea, via the miracle of modern virgin birth known as surrogate parenting, plus separate egg donor, plus a soupçon of the necessary donation from the Y-chromosomed side of things – on Christmas Day!

    This Week: Elton John and David Furnish, Michael Gove, Neil Abercrombie 2011

  • Scholars of boys and men converged Wednesday at Wagner College, in Staten Island, N.Y., to announce the creation of the Foundation for Male Studies, which will support a conference and a journal targeted at exploring the triumphs and struggles of the XY-chromosomed of the human race -- without needing to contextualize their ideas as being one half of a male-female binary or an offshoot of feminist theory.

    Archive 2010-04-11 Bill Crider 2010

  • A few years ago, after one of their gigs, I asked Bruce Roper, the group's token Y-chromosomed member, if it was a deliberate corruption of "Guns of the Navarone."

    Robert Rodi: Sons of the Never Wrong Make It Right In Evanston 2009

  • And while I wouldn't trade the Tasmanian Devil we spawned after Wren's birth and death for anything in the world, it gave me a completely emotional, illogical feeling of glee (and pang of jealousy) to see Palin up on stage with her little five-month bundle of extra-chromosomed joy Wednesday night.

    Esther J. Cepeda: I love Sarah Palin's Down Syndrome Baby 2008

  • Just watching that group of geriatric, Y-chromosomed honkeys and feeling the ever-flowing testosterone in the room, I immediatlely felt safer.

    Cliff Schecter: What I Learned From Republican Debate 2008

  • Am I only XX chromosomed here who hates being Ma'am-o-grammed by cute young guys behind registers?

    Sharon Glassman: Ma'am I Am...So Not 2008

  • The sole Y-chromosomed survivor is an amiable, headstrong young man, the son of a U.S. congresswoman and, as it happens, an amateur escape artist.

    Just finished M-mv 2008

  • I could completely get into a lesbian separatist existence, but what to do with those pesky Y-chromosomed individuals?

    The Deep Throat and Catherine McKinnon 2005

  • I could completely get into a lesbian separatist existence, but what to do with those pesky Y-chromosomed individuals?

    The Deep Throat and Catherine McKinnon 2005

  • Why do we have to do anything with the pesky Y-chromosomed people?

    The Deep Throat and Catherine McKinnon 2005

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