Tigtog has been blogging about how, contrary to Chicken Little predictions of electronic media being the end of literacy worldwide, children today are better writers than ever before. I was just watching this interview on “The Twitter Revolution”, Chuck Klosterman… Read More ›
Sociology
I have nothing to add …
…except “Oh, for fuck’s sake.”
Not-so-evil internets: making kids better writers
Every few months or so, we read about some freaked out reporter/columnist/pundit/politician complaining about how the internet and texting are destroying kids’ ability to write. Yet, pretty much every study on the subject has found the opposite to be true. Study after study after study after study after study have all found that kids today are better writers than in the past.
New study on negative effects of smacking children
Dr Straus said children who constantly faced physical punishment lived in fear and suffered stress, which was associated with poorer academic performance.
One for the annals of classic rebuttals
Lots of people in skeptical circles have linked to this, so many of you may have seen it already. Marvellous effort from Cristina in Romania, pointing out that not only is the latest attempt by American fundagelicals to demonise Darwin full of the usual ignorance of actual science, misrepresentations of science and outright falsehoods about Darwin and science, it’s full of double standards and blatant hypocrisy as well.
Dear World: Look up “Satire” in the Dictionary
Dear world: Stop mis-using ‘satire’. Satire is a genre that ridicules human wrongdoing, with the ultimate goal being to expose institutional oppression and effect social change. Putting ignorance on display, then panicking, backpedalling and calling it “satire” isn’t hip or… Read More ›
Press Release from Equality Now
Remember the RapeLay video game, written about by Melissa and Cara back in February? Equality Now has been working to persuade Japan to uphold its obligations under UN conventions with respect to material that normalises and/or promotes violence against women and girls.
“This never happened in my day; I blame the internet”
[cut for sexual assault triggers]
Quick Hit – Feminism ur doin it rong, with a hint of teh patriarchy doesn’t exist
Read all about it Apologies for the lack of discussion, I just don’t have the energy today.
Marvel Fail: rape culture apologism from writer, where the hell were the editors?
Storyline summary: villain named Chameleon takes Peter Parker’s shape and has sex with his roommate Michelle Gonzalez, who thinks he is Parker. Subsequent events show that the incident is being played for laughs with the oh so hilarious misunderstandings afterwards between Parker and roommate as she morphs immediately into a super-possessive clingy and bossy girlfriend from Nightmareland.
Hoyden About Town 