Chris Clarke very succinctly gets to the not-so-hidden sexism behind the nostalgia for “quality of life”. Though it goes beyond neo-environmentalism and caretaking; scratch an argument about the good old days when life was less impersonal and hurried, and you’ll find someone bitching that women aren’t doing more of the heavy lifting. “Families don’t sit [...]
On the laments of women who insist they really, truly would like more female friends, but are baffled as to how to make any. As always when I play Answer Bitch, I will be happy to give you the complete truth that you didn’t want to hear, and are now mad at me for sharing [...]
Chris Clarke has some helpful suggestions for gentlemen who wish to discuss sexual harassment, gender on the Internet and stalking in a rational, dispassionate manner. Share and Enjoy:
A recent conversation came to mind apropos of threads at Pandagon and Hugo Schwyzer’s blog. Eldest Daughter: Mama, I think I might have been a little too blunt at school today. Me: OK, what happened? ED: Well, see, this boy asked me if I want to go out with him– Me: You’re too young to [...]
Among many other good posts in the blogosphere about the harassment of Kathy Sierra is Violet Blue’s piece in the SF Chronicle–correctly pointing out that this isn’t an issue of one tech clique hatin’ on another, but a fairly typical example of the mentality of boys who love computers because computers, unlike women, don’t turn [...]
Via Pandagon, the story of Julie Amero, who was obviously railroaded for the crime of failing to erase porn spam pop-ups that mysteriously appeared on a school computer while she was a substitute teacher. Right? Well, it’s hard to tell from the Pandagon or Alternet articles, which are less about what actually happened and more [...]
What’s odd is that, for a change, they managed to let a few facts slip into a story about an increase in the number of women living without husbands. Of course, they quickly swaddle the facts in a lot of talky anecdotes from people who are able to fully explain the trend by what they [...]
Nole Irritare Leones links to an article citing a Newsweek poll about the chances of electing a female or black President. Respondents overwhelmingly said that they, themselves, would vote for someone other than ‘standard white male guy’, but doubted that the rest of the electorate would. It’s a bit like the poll results showing that [...]