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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.
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: Apologists for the Oppressors
The fact is, you can't pick sexual harassers out of a crowd. They don't have a mark on their foreheads.
Posted by Zuska at 4:27 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Sex Offenders
I really wonder what you have to do to get fired from a university.
Posted by Zuska at 12:50 PM • 21 Comments •
Category: Burns My Shorts
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 by Zuska at 4:01 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Sexual Harassment
You may know him now as the jerk-ass who allegedly sexually harassed his secretary
Posted by Zuska at 11:04 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Sex Offenders
you wouldn't expect that dogturd of a man to be sexually abusing her
Posted by Zuska at 4:18 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Sexual Harassment
So, what would be an example of someone creating a hostile environment in the workplace or educational setting? An example of "frequent, non-trivial acts of a sexual nature" might be, oh, say repeatedly raping your lab assistant nearly 80 times....
Posted by Zuska at 6:39 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: Why There Are No Women in Science
Women scientists and engineers are swimming - and choking - in the effluent from the discrimination factories.
Posted by Zuska at 5:36 PM • 4 Comments •
