Astronomer makes wistful call for gender apartheid
Sir Patrick Moore, EU segregationist, is perturbed about women getting their hooks into public life. Bewailing the domestification of television, he today launched a diatribe reminiscing about the “golden days” when the BBC was an shrine to testosterone, and lamenting the contaminatory intrusion of soap operas and cooking shows in what should be the sacred [...]
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Fat children are more likely to have their father to blame for their weight problem than their mother, a new study shows. Research by Australian child health experts has revealed that fathers who are disengaged or do not set clear limits for their kids are more likely to have heavier children. Dads who did lay [...]
What you don’t see when you’re a “good guy”
Kate Harding is stunned by an unexpected response from a Random Guy to her asserting herself, and then makes some connections and intersections: And you know, the worst part is, my boyfriend was sitting right by the window inside, a foot away from me but totally unaware of what was going on. I think about [...]
And the Inaugural Award of the Tiniest Fainting Couch in the world goes to:
Paris Hilton, who is being positively persecuted just because she’s a celebrity, and who couldn’t possibly be sent off to nasty gaol with the polloiest of hoi polloi, just for a teeny-weeny little thing like driving drunk without a license (repeatedly). Hilton’s mother, Kathy, is appalled: “This is pathetic and disgusting, a waste of taxpayer [...]
Google and the He/She Ratio
I’ve been tinkering with The He/ She Ratio on Google Blogoscoped. A site’s he/ she ratio is measured by counting the number of pages on the domain containing the word “he”, then searching for the number containing “she”, and then looking at the two numbers in comparison. Here are a few figures. We’re running at [...]
It’s not the empty street that causes rape
Today’s Guest Post is a crosspost from JoAnne Schmitz of Jupiter9. Edited to add: a link from Pandagon to this particular post was actually meant to link to this other post on passive/active voice by Lauredhel instead. Please do read JoAnne’s excellent post here as well, because it’s also relevant to the general points raised [...]
Hearing Women’s Voices: Digital Communities and Feminist Ethics
Here’s a paper I wrote recently, Hearing Women’s Voices: Digital Communities and Feminist Ethics. [Edit: now available in HTML format here.] The intro: Introduction: Community and Ideas of “Space” “Online community” is a highly contested concept. Are text interactions “authentic”? Are digital friendships real? Can collections of electronic conversations and relationships truly constitute a community? [...]
Parenting While Female: “It’s Not About You”
I’ve been contemplating this post: The Male Gaze… falls upon a Nursing Mother…. by Morgan Gallagher. I think there’s an important truth in there, something feminists find themselves saying over and over and over again: “It’s not about you.” Breastfeeding fear seems to be partly about keeping mothers in the home where they “belong”, partly [...]
Yes and No
This post has been hanging around as a draft since February, because I wasn’t quite happy with it. Lindsay’s recent post (and my response), on how misusing “moderate” to describe faith positions which don’t preach intolerance imputes that the intolerant theology is the orthodox position made me recast it – everywhere that now reads “more [...]
Knowing Your Market
Today’s Guest Poster “Little Jim” is a masked IT professional and blogger While the outside perception is that it is still a male domain (and indeed some segments of the industry are very much like a post office), within the IT industry female techos and IT managers are quite the norm. I know as I [...]
Heffernan: Non-incubators are non-people
From today’s Australian comes this story: Liberal[1] Senator and colossal asshat Bill Heffernan says he stands by comments that Labor Deputy Leader Julia Gillard is not qualified to lead the country because she is deliberately “barren”. [...] “If you’re a leader, you’ve got to understand your community. One of the great understandings in a community [...]
Feminism – an ethic or a subculture?
This post is text yanked from the previous post, because the beginning and the end of the post were just a really, really bad match, and I think the feminist material deserved its own post. So if you’ve already read the previous post, this is the same stuff, OK? If you haven’t read it yet, [...]
“Moderate” language
Image Credit: Karen Wehrstein, Gliese 581c, uploaded by Phil Plait The picture has nothing to do with the subject of the post, it’s just v. cool (follow the link). Lindsay Bernstein, of Majikthise, has a post up talking of the effect of describing some Muslims (or some Christians) as “moderates”. Although the intent may be [...]
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