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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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Category: Those Humorless Feminists
Stories involving feminists, by definition, must always be controversial, because feminism and feminists cannot be taken as uncontroversial things.
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Category: Feminist Foremothers
Because when we were growing up, the joke in our household was that our mom would die if hot food ever touched her lips.
Posted by Zuska at 6:57 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Ludicrous Language
Yesterday I was listening to Morning Edition on NPR and caught this very intriguing segment, Shakespeare Had Roses All Wrong. Would you describe a bridge as fragile, elegant, beautiful, peaceful, slender, pretty? Or as strong, dangerous, long, sturdy, big, towering?...
Posted by Zuska at 2:03 PM • 26 Comments •
Category: Blog I Am Reading Today
It's the tiresomely enduring repetitive nature of this stupid crap that makes me a cranky humorless feminazi.
Posted by Zuska at 1:56 AM • 30 Comments •
Category: Isn't It Ironic?
There is no conception of two women interacting with each other as colleagues, to exchange ideas, argue concepts, work out disagreements, in a discussion of issues of common concern that do not have men at the center.
Posted by Zuska at 3:47 PM • 33 Comments •
Category: Announcements
...talking about gender and science is also not up for negotiation.
Posted by Zuska at 5:44 PM • 21 Comments •
Category: Daily Struggles
The Philadelphia Inquirer has an interesting article today about the "issue of cultural sensitivity...in the world of comedy". Comedy: When The Laughing Stops looks at how comedians struggle with knowing where to draw the line - and when to go...
Posted by Zuska at 1:51 PM • 46 Comments •
Category: Daily Struggles
It's maddening that something as simple as how I wear my hair can be fraught with gender connotations.
Posted by Zuska at 6:39 PM • 43 Comments •
Category: Friday Fare
Oh, the mighty struggle of sperm to fertilize egg!
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Category: Gratuitous Sexism
I am so not making this up.
Posted by Zuska at 2:41 PM • 21 Comments •
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