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Category: feminism
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,...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:01 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Sex Differences
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...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:35 AM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
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...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:13 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Aging
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...
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:07 PM • 250 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skeptical Skepticism
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...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:13 PM • 123 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: feminism
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....
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:23 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Behavioral Biology
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...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:45 PM • 96 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: feminism
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...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:04 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: feminism
...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.
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:54 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Anthropology
There is a mud fight going on over at Ed Brayton's blog regarding his use of the word "shrew" in reference to Sarah Palin. The Kliqueons (rhymes with "Klingons") have called Ed out for being sexist.
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:57 AM • 248 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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