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Zuska is the kick-ass alter-ego of Suzanne E Franks. When not dispensing Zuska's wisdom, Suzanne can often be found gardening, reading, or having one of her thrice-weekly migraines.
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You will be wanting to read my excellent essay, 'Suzy the Computer' vs. 'Dr. Sexy': What's a Geek Girl to Do When She Wants to Get Laid? in She's Such a Geek! Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff.
If you have not yet figured out why you shoud not be using terms like "hard science" and "soft skills", then you absolutely need to read Telling Stories About Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity in NWSA Journal v. 16 No. 1, 2004 (Re)Gendering Science Fields.
You should also read They Blinded Me With Science: Misuse and Misunderstanding of Biological Theory, an excellent critique of Thornhill and Palmer's nonsense about rape as an evolutionary strategy. You can find it in Burack and Josephson's must-read tome, Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives.
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Dumbest Reason Ever for Not Supporting Paid Parental Leave
I was browsing the Women's Policy Inc. site, which is awesome, and ran across an item in the June 16, 2008 issue of The Source that just left me with my mouth hanging open. I can't find a permalink for...Posted on June 27, 2008 11:39 PM • 20 Comments •
Women Maybe Did Stuff Too, or, How To Make A Half-Assed Stab at Inclusive Language
The latest issue of Smithsonian arrived today, in time for my dinner. There are few things more pleasing than reading and eating on a fine summer day, sitting on the back patio with a light breeze blowing and the perfect...Posted on June 24, 2008 6:26 PM • 50 Comments •
Flextime: It Sets Such A Bad Example!
New Boss should be deeply ashamed of being such a retrograde defender of the patriarchy.Posted on May 12, 2008 2:25 PM • 24 Comments •
Gender Bias in Particle Physics: A Statistical Analysis
UPDATE: After posting this entry, I found out that the paper I discussed here is not actually slated at this time to be published in a peer-reviewed journal; it is merely available as a preprint. Nevertheless, I hear that the...Posted on April 17, 2008 7:23 PM • 40 Comments •
Selling Your Blog With Cheesecake
Afarensis, I puke upon your pseudonymous shoes.Posted on March 6, 2008 4:34 PM • 14 Comments •
Whose Issue Is This?
After all, the kid you're raising today may be the person wiping my ass someday in the nursing home.Posted on February 13, 2008 3:50 PM • 40 Comments •
Jim Watson, Seed Adviser: A Slap In The Face To Those Who Care About Science And Equity
In the face of that, I have to seriously ask myself if I should stick with Scienceblogs.Posted on February 12, 2008 12:46 PM • 24 Comments •
Twenty Years Of Sexual Harassment (and other news)
Science policy, 20 years of sexual harassment, French women students as prostitutes: a round-up of stuff from the Chronicle: Dan Greenburg of Brainstorm complains that the U.S. has no national science policy. Some commenters say "that's a good thing". Over...Posted on February 1, 2008 2:43 PM • 3 Comments •
Scientific Nail Polish
I have no time for a real entry, but if you haven't yet had your daily quota of sexist nonsense, check out these two links. Melissa McEwan parses the gender segregation at the Discovery Channel Store. (Thanks to Bora for...Posted on December 7, 2007 4:36 PM • 1 Comments •
Bad Advice On Dealing With Harassment From An Associate Dean
Here we are in 2007, and you can be an associate dean at a prestigious institution of higher education, and still be completely clueless about campus sexual harassment policy and its legal implications.Posted on November 1, 2007 3:15 PM • 9 Comments •
Stuff I Read and Thought You'd Like
Some great posts on other blogs you may have missed reading: Language Log has a great critique of the new PBS show WordGirl, which I found via Fairer Science. If that's not enough to make you grind your teeth, then...Posted on October 27, 2007 11:08 AM • 0 Comments •
PZ, You've Seriously Disappointed Me
PZ Myers is a really nice person and I love Pharyngula - I just spent a nice half hour reading it, and among other good stuff I encountered there was a link in this post to Robert Hooke's notebooks online....Posted on October 24, 2007 9:04 PM • 11 Comments •
Bush Administration Decides Birth Control Not a Health Care Issue
Fertility is not a disease, but it's a health issue.Posted on October 17, 2007 5:45 PM • 7 Comments •
Watson to Africa: You're All Dumb
Jim Watson is a consummate ass. I don't care if he discovered the secret of life, the universe, and everything, he's still a misogynistic racist miserable S.O.B.Posted on October 17, 2007 4:30 PM • 30 Comments •
Watson Stoops to New Lows in Calling Franklin Autistic
Not, of course, that how he sees it bears any relationship to reality.Posted on October 16, 2007 1:17 PM • 19 Comments •
Scholarships for "Special" People
Chem Blog needs some serious shoe-puking.Posted on September 27, 2007 11:55 AM • 22 Comments •
Why There Are No Great Women Science Bloggers
Gender equity: it's not rocket science. Just review the list.Posted on September 19, 2007 6:17 PM • 35 Comments •
The Authorities: Always Looking Out For Women
Potential academic rapists, take note: if you want to get off with just the minor inconvenience of house arrest, make sure to portray yourself as doing research of immense "societal value".Posted on September 12, 2007 4:01 PM • 4 Comments •
How To Train Women For Their Futures
If she insists on a career, let her know that maids are in need in all hotels and many of our finer families' homes.Posted on September 10, 2007 4:59 PM • 6 Comments •
The Biology of Pink
Perhaps you don't remember an entry I wrote about a year ago titled Pink Is For Boys, Blue Is For Girls. I linked to a Fairer Science post that was debunking a Times Online editorial suggesting girls had a biologically...Posted on August 22, 2007 3:08 PM • 6 Comments •
So Just What Is Nature Doing???
This is puzzling...surely if Nature had already updated its mission statement, it would not need to write an editorial about updating its mission statement, right?Posted on August 20, 2007 11:07 AM • 5 Comments •
Men [Sick]
Scientist, you see , actually means "men of science".Posted on August 19, 2007 8:36 PM • 14 Comments •
Nature Sticks One Toe In the Early 20th Century
...physicists are studying how Nature has managed to warp the space-time continuum...Posted on August 16, 2007 7:54 PM • 22 Comments •
Debbie Does Laundry
Yes, global warming be damned, no technology is too expensive for Debbie to get back to simpler times and fresher scents.Posted on August 13, 2007 4:34 PM • 16 Comments •
Math Confuses Princess: I Read It In Seed
I am so not making this up.Posted on July 9, 2007 2:41 PM • 21 Comments •
But She's So Cute!
Maybe this is why there's such a strong myth that hot women don't do science.Posted on June 29, 2007 5:18 PM • 5 Comments •
The Playing Field Will Never Be Equal: Gender Equity For Physicists
Everything can be blamed on the kids!Posted on June 6, 2007 8:55 PM • 73 Comments •
A Case of Egregious TV Criticism
But will there be equal opportunity chastisement?Posted on June 3, 2007 6:24 PM • 4 Comments •
Bunch of Men Honored for Science Stuff Again
And now...let the comment whiners commence whining.Posted on May 31, 2007 2:18 PM • 16 Comments •
CBS's Dreadful "The Big Bang Theory"
Hah hah hah, "big bang", get it? like the theory, and like, "bang" a chick?Posted on May 22, 2007 5:52 PM • 52 Comments •
Kirk and Scotty (But Not Uhura) Play With "Rick"
It sucks to see the press doing gender bias work for the physicists.Posted on May 7, 2007 11:01 PM • 15 Comments •
5th Scientiae Is Up
You might want to check out this horror story...Posted on May 1, 2007 7:50 PM • 1 Comments •
SciAm Reports: ScienceBlogger Is Attractive!!!
what the f*ck does that have to do with anything in the story?Posted on April 27, 2007 9:18 PM • 55 Comments •
Pennsylvania's Gun Lobby Lynch Mob
A bunch of gun-totin' white Americans threatening to lynch a non-white American just does not go down well.Posted on April 26, 2007 7:19 PM • 10 Comments •
Fair Use? What's That?
UPDATE: There was a veritable blogswarm on this issue, and Shelley reports that it seems to have generated results. Although, I will note that "granting permission" is not quite the same thing as acknowledging that her original post fell under...Posted on April 25, 2007 3:14 PM • 1 Comments •
A Pox on "Cathy"
This is evil in so many ways I can't even begin to describe it.Posted on April 24, 2007 5:22 PM • 27 Comments •
Delta Zeta Cleans House
I find all of this incredibly appalling - but not surprising.Posted on February 26, 2007 4:44 PM • 8 Comments •
Calendar Girls
She has great tits! And she's an engineer.Posted on February 11, 2007 10:59 AM • 8 Comments •
Sci Fi Guys and Stereotypes, Again
So, I have insomnia. I'm catching up on some blog reading. I come across this courtesy of Asymptotia. It's one of those quizzes; this one is "Which Science Fiction Writer Are you?" It's fun, it's harmless, more or less; I...Posted on January 29, 2007 7:42 AM • 6 Comments •
"Conversations About The Tribe"
Dr. Free-Ride has graciously put the slides from her talk at the Science Blogging Conference on the conference wiki, so I'm thinking I can go ahead and blog about the stuff I thought I couldn't blog about in my earlier...Posted on January 25, 2007 2:42 PM • 10 Comments •
Scientists and the Public - What's Our Responsibility?
Well, I would argue that good science blogging is NOT just "my opinion...Posted on January 24, 2007 7:29 PM • 4 Comments •
The Greatest Scientists Of Our Time?
Oh christ, I hope Susumu Tonegawa isn't included in this ad campaign.Posted on January 8, 2007 8:55 PM • 27 Comments •
