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Breakthrough’s Video ~ One Billion Strong
Posted by Greg Laden on February 3, 2013 … Warning abuse triggers … Breakthrough’s video -Mann ke Manjeeré- winner of the Screen Awards 2001 in India and nominated for MTV’s ‘Best Indipop Music Video’, reached 26 million households via six satellite music television channels, effectively mainstreaming discussions about domestic violence issues throughout South Asia and reaching as far as Tajikistan, Indonesia and the…
Are you a feminist activist? Thank you.
Posted by Greg Laden on December 7, 2012 
The other day, PZ Myers noted in a Blog post the remembrance of the École Polytechnique massacre in which Marc Lépine hunted down and killed 14 women, injured another 10 women and a handful of men, as his way of striking out against feminism. To be clear, he was hunting down and killing feminists because…
I, for one, welcome our new female overlords
Posted by Greg Laden on November 12, 2012 This is the year of the woman in the US Congress and elsewhere, despite the best efforts of some to make sure that the opposite happened. This is the year in which the Right Wing carried out the most anti-woman campaign ever since suffrage, or at least, so it would appear, along with a continued…
I Am A Secular Woman
Posted by Greg Laden on June 30, 2012 
Secular Woman is a organization that just formed, and is currently filing for 501(c)(3) status. I just joined it and you should to. Here’s the mission statement: Mission The mission of Secular Woman is to amplify the voice, presence, and influence of non-religious women. Vision Secular Woman envisions a future in which women without supernatural…
How many countries have ever had a woman leader?
Posted by Greg Laden on June 3, 2012 
First, a little Benazir Bhutto story, since we are on the subject of women leaders. A friend of mine was to be on the podium of Harvard’s graduation the year Benazir Bhutto was to give the keynote, and heard this conversation. John Galbraith, the economists who was also a professor at Harvard, Bhutto’s former undergraduate…
More Than Men
Posted by Greg Laden on January 20, 2012 The More than Men Project is an effort initiated by the Women Thinking Free Foundation to develop a space where men, often white and/or straight and/or Of Priv, could spend a little time and energy telling their fellow Hetero-occidentaloid-Y-chromosomists something useful or interesting about diversity, and to encourage the promotion of said diversity. When I…
Screw this sexism
Posted by Greg Laden on October 10, 2011 The following photograph is a Facebook Peme (Pic Meme, sometimes spelled “peem”). In its original form it had a caption that was sexist and offensive, feeding the idea that girls can’t do math (innately) and also suggesting that a good backup plan for a middle schooler frustrated with academics is sexual self-objectivictoin. I’ve blogged about…
Driving The Patriarchy: Demonic Males, Feminism, and Genetic Determinism
Posted by Greg Laden on July 7, 2011 Behaviors are not caused by genes. There is not a gene that causes you to be good, or to be bad, or to be smart, or good at accounting, or to like bananas. There are, however, drives. “Drives” is a nicely vague term that we can all understand the meaning of. Thirst and hunger are…
Ladies, Richard Dawkins knows how to protect you from being raped in an elevator
Posted by Greg Laden on July 4, 2011 Recently, Richard Dawkins said (full quote below) that a woman should not be concerned about her own safety if she finds herself in an elevator (under some sort of threat, presumably), because it is trivially easy to get out of an elevator if you are under attack. I’m sure Richard is a very smart guy…
Shut up about everything all the time unless what you have to say is HITLER!!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on July 3, 2011 And thus, structurally, Richard Dawkins, or his distant cousin Richard D. Poe (I am still not sure) has shut down the argument that the Elevator Guy acted inappropriately when he asked Rebecca Watson over for a cuppa joe at four O’clock in the AM, in an elevator, while she was on her way to bed.
What is Feminism?
Posted by Greg Laden on March 8, 2011 Courtney Martin examines the perennially loaded word “feminism” in this personal and heartfelt talk. She talks through the three essential paradoxes of her generation’s quest to define the term for themselves.
Why do women shop and men hunt?
Posted by Greg Laden on October 12, 2010 Or, when the hunting season is closed, watch teh game (the guys), or when there are no sales, admire each other’s shoes (the gals)? This is, of course, a parody of the sociobiological, or in modern parlance, the “evolutionary psychology” argument linking behaviors that evolved in our species during the long slog known as The…
It is God’s plan that you bear the child of your rapist
Posted by Greg Laden on June 29, 2010 I heard a white male blogger said something, or failed to say something, or whatever. So, let’s pile on and verbally pound him for a while! Because, you know, there is nothing worse going on in the world when it comes to buying and selling (with money or votes) women’s freedoms!!! Or is there?
The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing: Why Too Many Y’s?
Posted by Greg Laden on December 7, 2009 I have yet to meet anyone who has read this book, myself included. But apparently some sciency blogger picked up a copy the other day and noticed a near absence of female scientists represented in the anthology. Why? Y, apparently.
The Taming of the Shrewd: “Get her drunk then get her done”
Posted by Greg Laden on December 1, 2009 “Get her drunk then get her done.” So reads one of the decals on the F-150 pickup truck parked in my new neighbor’s driveway. Of all the objectionable aphorisms on that particular truck, that’s the mildest one. I wonder what my daughter will think of that when she notices it some time over the next…
A woman in the Sudan has done the absolutely worst thing a woman can do.
Posted by Greg Laden on September 7, 2009 She wore pants.
“Game characters are too white, too male”
Posted by Greg Laden on August 3, 2009 Games developers are failing to reflect diversity, according to the first survey of game characters. Latinos are nearly invisible, and women and other groups are woefully underrepresented. Study leader Dmitri Williams, a social psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication looked at the top 150 games in a…
The Natural Basis for Inequality of the Sexes
Posted by Greg Laden on July 27, 2009 Is the Natural World a valid source of guidance for our behavior, morals, ethics, and other more mundane areas of thought such as how to build an airplane and what to eat for breakfast?1 When it comes to airplanes, you’d better be a servant to the rules of nature (such as gravity) or the airplane…
Sexism in the lab: Perception and reality mingle
Posted by Greg Laden on July 21, 2009 A three part conversation between two women overheard on the University of Minnesota campus.
Observations on sexism in the skeptics movement
Posted by Greg Laden on July 21, 2009 … by Skepchick by “carr2d2″ … touch on a wide range of topics that make TAM7 seem like a microcosm of the blogosphere, academia, and to some (limited) extent the broader society. “…a lot of men in the skeptical movement, well intentioned as they may be, have a tendency to look at women as though…
A rape in progress
Posted by Greg Laden on June 1, 2009 Please read the following vignette of an actual incident. I am a scientist observing the culture of the Namoyoma people. I am sitting in a shady spot just outside the village, writing up some notes, and I observe a disturbing event. Four men are trying to drag a young woman from the road into the…
Rewriting Comrade Physioprof
Posted by Greg Laden on May 22, 2009 … I admit, sometimes I just want to delete the guy. But at least for now, stet wins the day, and instead of erasure I’m calling for some heavy editing. I recently made this challenge to those poking around at Almost Diamonds that they should have a look at PhysioProf’s non-rules (follow the links above…
Is this an appropriate facebook photo?
Posted by Greg Laden on May 21, 2009 Probably not, but not for the reasons suggested by the subject of this excellent post by Sheril Kirshenbaum.
My reaction to Zvan on PhysioProf at Isis
Posted by Greg Laden on May 19, 2009 I loved Stephanie’s post for a number of reasons, including and mainly for it’s clear statement about why rules are more tempting (to create) than is good for us. At the same time, I would say that when I read PhysioProf’s “Tips” (which everyone takes as rules though he never seems to have actually called…
Burn this book
Posted by Greg Laden on May 3, 2009 … well, not really, you should not burn any book. But don’t just leave this one around for your kids to accidentally read. Source of book. Hat tip
Miss California Persecuted By Teh Gays, Is Blessed, It Turns Out.
Posted by Greg Laden on April 29, 2009 Miss California has found a new calling. She is making the transition from bikini clad ditzy blond representative of women nowhere to iconic stander-upper against political correctness.
Commentary on OTT date rape scene….
Posted by Greg Laden on April 12, 2009 … in the movie Observe and Report. Go HERE to see the rest of the commentary as well as the R-rated trailer which shows part of the scene in question. I’ve got no opinion on this one scene because there is not enough context or detail (having not seen the movie) but the FFFU seems…
FFF-Y
Posted by Greg Laden on March 22, 2009 Do I need to spell this out for you? Transcript and background available here.
National Young Women’s Leadership Conference
Posted by Greg Laden on March 22, 2009 The National Young Women’s Leadership Conference is going on. You can get to related information via this blog: Choices Feminist Campus. Welcome to the second day of our National Young Women’s Leadership Conference. WOOHOO! We are Showing this morning’s plenary live today on UStream — same link as below for yesterday’s plenary. It will be…
The Verdict on the new Dora the Explorah
Posted by Greg Laden on March 20, 2009 Julia and I looked into this and we have concurred, and this Jury of Two is prepared to pass judgment. This is the original Dora the Explorer: And here (below the fold) is the new Dora:
, which is now available for the 
