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attackeng.jpg 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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The place where I come from...is a small town. Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains

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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.

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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.

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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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Manly Men:

"It's Not A Kitchen Gadget, It's A Tool!"

Ladies, all these years you've been using blenders and understood them as belonging to the category "kitchen gadget". But when he uses the manly new stainless steel RPM blender, it's not a kitchen gadget, it's a tool! Or so the...

Mosquito Men

Female Science Professor works with Professor Troll. Perhaps many of you have a similar colleague or acquaintance. What do you do when you constantly have to rub shoulders with Professor Troll's ilk? Like mosquitoes in summer, they buzz around strong,...

The Caveman Mystique

Alert reader Linda Carpenter has given me a heads-up about a forthcoming book that is a "take down of ev-psych style cave-masculinity". Ooh, that sounds tasty! The book is The Caveman Mystique: Pop-Darwinism and the Debates Over Sex, Violence, and...

What Graduate Students Are For

The cannon fodder of science.

Men [Sick]

Scientist, you see , actually means "men of science".

Female Science Professor's Scary Stories

We learn our gender politics early and often, and in the strangest of places.

Strong, Silent Men Wax Eloquent In Print To Refute Mehl Study

If women and men are the same, how will we know what makes a Real Man?

An Update

It's either this, or all gardening and no blogging.

"I Support Gender Equity In Principle..."

Go right ahead, discriminate your hearts out.

Kirk and Scotty (But Not Uhura) Play With "Rick"

It sucks to see the press doing gender bias work for the physicists.

The Tender Sensibilities of Men

The mere thought of all those panel members up there, sans penis, is enough to make any man quake in his shoes.

Because We Don't Have To

It doesn't matter how nicely we speak, how nuanced our arguments and discussions, how sweetly we invite.

Not Even On the Radar Screen

To ask real, serious, difficult questions about male reproductive health requires challenging ingrained assumptions about what it means to be a man.

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