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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.
The place where I come from...is a small town. Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains
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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Category: Feminist Foremothers
As it stands now, Scienceblogs is more like Ms Magazine than Cosmopolitan, both in terms of its ability to attract advertising, and in the types of advertising its readers - and writers/workers - will tolerate without revolt.
Posted by Zuska at 1:04 AM • 93 Comments •
Category: Manifestoes
I don't really give a rat's ass whether or not DrugMonkey or PZ wash the dishes or scrub the toilets at their respective houses, or whether they hired a cleaning service to do so.
Posted by Zuska at 3:39 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Daily Struggles
Even if fifty dudes got together and wrote A Post, on the same day, about balancing work and family, it would still be like that Special Section on The Rare and Strange Creatures Known as Women-in-Science published annually by Glamour Journal.
Posted by Zuska at 9:03 AM • 53 Comments •
Category: Manifestoes
I have put in (literally) decades of work acting on the assumption that folks are reasonable and well-intentioned, and trying to be effective and get messages across. Part of that time I was even paid to do so.
Posted by Zuska at 1:26 PM • 34 Comments •
Category: Apologists for the Oppressors
Jeebus, people, you have GOT to get some new whiney whines, you Whiney McWhinersons.
Posted by Zuska at 11:07 PM • 89 Comments •
Category: Burns My Shorts
I gather that "woman" is stodgy, or P.C. (!), and too mature and "girls" these days are putting off adulthood, and can't think of themselves as women. To this, I say, what a load of horsecrap we have have been sold.
Posted by Zuska at 2:48 PM • 69 Comments •
Category: Gratuitous Sexism
You are not supposed to notice sexist behavior, and everything in our society is carefully designed to help you understand and accept it as natural and just the way things are and evolution and the battle of the sexes and God's will and girls like pink and boys love trucks and men are better at spatial hoo-hah and women are so verbal and boys will be boys and act like a lady and don't be a slut and men can't help themselves and blah blah blah.
Posted by Zuska at 9:05 AM • 168 Comments •
Category: Burns My Shorts
I'm speaking from experience, people, having had most of these lobbed at me one time or another. Please feel free to add to the list in the comments section. 1. "When is the baby due?" I'm not pregnant, you douchebag....
Posted by Zuska at 4:48 PM • 52 Comments •
Category: Manifestoes
I'm telling you, the system works, they have figured out how to take the raw talent and produce skilled researchers. It's just that they only do it for the ones who look most like themselves.
Posted by Zuska at 8:57 PM • 21 Comments •
Category: Naming Experience
Look out, science! She's got a uterus and isn't afraid to use it!
Posted by Zuska at 9:34 AM • 50 Comments •
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