Which sort of tech actually makes the most daily difference to the largest number of people?
gendered roles
Thought of the day: when does bigotry occur?
If we use the intentions and feelings of privileged people to determine when bigotry occurs, you will find that no one is bigoted by that definition.
The reading iceberg: promoting ‘serious’ male narratives over ‘trivial’ female narratives starts at school
It took me years to realise that I had been educated to privilege men’s writing over women’s. Like a lot of girls educated in the ’70s and ’80s, I grew up reading a canon of ‘great literature’ written by men (and, primarily, for men) … At school we read almost exclusively male writers … our one woman author was Jane Austen.
“I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because [Lego]’s just so good for little girls’ brains”
“If it takes color-coding or ponies and hairdressers to get girls playing with Lego, I’ll put up with it, at least for now, because it’s just so good for little girls’ brains,” says Lise Eliot. A neuroscientist at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in Chicago, Eliot is the author of Pink Brain Blue Brain, a 2009 survey of hundreds of scientific papers on gender differences in children
Katha Pollitt: Hitchens and his writing on Women
for someone who prided himself on his wide-ranging interests, he had virtually no interest in women’s writing or women’s lives or perspectives
On having to feel embarrassed for what you love
Shed a tear for all the 6 year old girls who struggle to be able to love what they love regardless of stupid gender binary stereotypes: Look, I’m an optimist. I prefer to dwell on the positive rather than the… Read More ›
The Humbling of a Pretty Girl
To say that the outlets reporting on this think of it as a shock or a misfortune, feel really bad for Ms Scruggs, and are inappropriately sexing it up, misses the main point. There are loads of bigger stories to care about, on economies, wars, and disease. The point is that they are latching on to the most popular plot in the world: the humbling of the pretty girl.
Queen Victoria and now
Have social attitudes to female criminals changed since Queen Victoria’s time?
Quicklink: China and fashion spending
Chinese men spend more on fashion clothing than women. More than twice as much ($1.1 billion to $439 million).
G’day, Bingo Viewers!
There’s been an uptick over the last few weeks in site visitors clicking on links to Anti-Feminist Bingo and Anti-Feminist Bingo #2 – since comments on those posts have been long closed, I invite you to comment here instead, should you feel so inclined.
Hoyden About Town 