Bra-Burners and Feminist Activists: A Wee Primer
Category: Stereotypes We Know And Love
Alas, there is no answer sheet, except the one provided by your own pre-existing (mis)conceptions and biases. Enjoy.
Posted by Zuska at 9:40 PM • 25 Comments •
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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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Rules For Media Coverage of Feminists
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.
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Tiny Shiny Keys and Gendered Language
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?...
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Category: Blog I Am Reading Today
It's the tiresomely enduring repetitive nature of this stupid crap that makes me a cranky humorless feminazi.
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When Women Get Together Outside The Kitchen, It Must Be To Plot Against Men
Category: Isn't It Ironic?
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Just a Reminder
Category: Announcements
...talking about gender and science is also not up for negotiation.
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Another Perspective On Delineating Funny/Not-Funny
Category: Daily Struggles
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It Helps To Speak The Language When You're Thinking About Gender
Category: Daily Struggles
It's maddening that something as simple as how I wear my hair can be fraught with gender connotations.
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A Bit of Feminist Humor
Category: Friday Fare
Oh, the mighty struggle of sperm to fertilize egg!
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