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A personal report on the 2010 Rio Carnival.
Archive for the ‘Feminism’ Category
February 19th, 2010
November 17th, 2009
A listserv I belong to had an admiring post about the Pacquiao-Cotto fight (you don’t need a link, one guy beat the sh*t out of the other one, and the ref had to stop the fight in the 12th), and I rose to the bait with some snark about people who get off on that [...]
June 14th, 2009
Category: Feminism, Garbage pail
Larry Summers and Tim Geithner seem to have a problem with highly qualified women who disagree with them.
February 22nd, 2009
III. Garments …
C. Modern era…
4. Pockets (denial of)
In the middle of a long thread on a writers’ list-serv, provoked by my post on fashion models, it occurred to me that one of the unrecognized ways women are kept dependent and threatened is simply denying them pockets. This is more important than one might think, right [...]
February 12th, 2009
Category: Feminism, Financial crises
Geneder parity on bank boards would contribute a needed cultural shock.
March 7th, 2008
An ode of thanks to the now old lady warriors of WW II.
March 5th, 2008
Category: Academic Labor Market, Education policy, Evolutionary psychology, Feminism, Policy Analysis, Science and its methods, Women in academia
Two dispatches this week from the “is our girls and women learning?” wars. Elizabeth Weil writes about the nascent movement for single-sex education in public schools, and Christina Hoff Sommers takes on efforts to socially engineer the equal representation of women in science and engineering PhD programs. (Charlotte Allen’s “Women are dumb” doesn’t [...]
February 2nd, 2008
The best commentary on anti-contraception lunacy is in a cartoon.
January 30th, 2007
Category: Feminism
Why do pro-choice people think of the right-to-life folks as a bunch of ignorant, hate-filled, anti-feminist sexual-purity fanatics? Because that’s who the RTL’s have accepted as their leadership.