10 month ago
adamrg : Women’s group slams Kennedy for ‘betrayal’ - "And now the greatest betrayal! ...[Ted Kennedy] picked the new guy over us. He’s joined the list of progressive white men who can’t or won’t handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton." Is this the Onion?
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11 month ago
nelson : People keep stealing our stewardesses - Creepy old sexist add; I love how he's got his hand over her mouth
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12 month ago
plasticbag : I can't quite believe that I'm linking to the Daily Mail, but there you go - a series of ridiculously appalling sexist adverts from (mostly) the first half of the 20th Century - When I was at University I met a lot of people who found the idea of feminism silly and gross and couldn't imagine why anyone would be such a weird radical. This is why! That we've come so far as a culture is down to them.
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18 month ago
gleuschk : Shut the Fuck Up, or how to act better in meetings - if only I could get math departments to read this -- the context is different, but the points are the same
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19 month ago
gleuschk : Whedonesque: Let's Watch A Girl Get Beaten To Death. - Joss Whedon
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19 month ago
Linkorama : We found women in tech... - ...so why are you still not reporting about them?
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21 month ago
Linkorama : Blogging gone bad, if not evil - Death threats against bloggers are NOT "protected speech" (why I cancelled my ETech presentations)
Simon Willison : Death threats against bloggers are NOT "protected speech" (why I cancelled my ETech presentations) - Death threats against bloggers are NOT “protected speech” (why I cancelled my ETech presentations). Truly sickening behaviour.
kellan : Kathy Sierra: Death threats against bloggers are NOT protected speech - Kathy Sierra: Death threats against bloggers are NOT protected speech. Deeply disturbing, and upsetting. (And some part of me is selfish enough to be sad that I won’t be seeing her this week, as she is a consistently wonderful speaker) #
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26 month ago
plasticbag : Stephen Colbert's awesome Cooking with Feminists - Featuring Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem. I don't know if my mother's reading this, but I think you'd find this funny. I'm not sure, but I think you would. I hope you would. I think it's funny. Um.
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27 month ago
plasticbag : Suw Charman on how to speak at and organise conferences - This is a good solid piece that I don't think would necessarily please a lot of the people who think about these things. The gender thing is a particular community flashpoint.
Paul Hammond : The Twelve (or so) Step Program for Conference Speakers and Organisers. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns from the chaos that is the blogosphere. - You have a responsibility to pull your fingers out of your collective ass and start trying harder.
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30 month ago
deusx : Composite: thoughts on poetics by Liz Henry: talking gender - a long digressive juicy post - "If you talk all the time you will not hear anything."
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34 month ago
plasticbag : Pink's new video is a pretty entertaining tirade in favour of smart, ambitious women - It's really cool to see some positive reinforcement in the mass media for a version of womanhood that isn't about tight clothes, booty, bling and boobs.
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37 month ago
plasticbag : The history of Power Girl is a history of enormous comic book breasts. There's a lot of insight into the minds of teenage male comic book readers in this piece... - "Seriously, she has got to be the most sexualized – dare I say, objectified? – heroine in mainstream spandex comics."
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39 month ago
plasticbag : Last year's O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005 'regendered' - I was trying to find something with a lot of names in it, and this kind of seemed a perfect (if controversial) choice. Whatever my disagreements with people about the reasons for the lack of women at ETech, I'll agree with them that it's far from ideal...
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39 month ago
plasticbag : BBC News: "A US psychologist says there are not that many differences between the genders." - The complexities of the politics of same vs different, superior vs inferior, made vs born (etc) remain a perpetual focus for debate, argument and rhetoric...
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plasticbag : Shelley Powers takes Our Social World apart for being too dominated by males and not having enough minorities. - (1) I am gay, (2) I spent three post-grad years working around identity politics, feminism and queer theory, (3) There are iniquities that need to be rectfied, (4) I think this argument is illogical, insular, self-defeating and insulting.
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44 month ago
plasticbag : The BlogHer conference is an overdue gathering on women and weblogging. The UK could do with a weblogging event of some kind, as could the gay community... - I'm a little tense that some of the comments are characterising the event as an opposition to an apparent male hegemony, which I think is over-simplistic. Still, can't have everything...
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plasticbag : WI forces cuts to Little Britain - "Complaints by the Women's Institute have prompted the BBC to make changes to hit comedy show Little Britain."
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plasticbag : Jon Snow to host New Year's Eve "Man only" version of Women's Hour - "Snow, who confesses to being hopeless in the kitchen, will also learn how to cook roast partridge under the tutelage of chef Tom Norrington-Davies, and will ask why women spend so long in the bathroom and run up such large phone bills."
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Women design databases too - on Cal Henderson saying normalised data is for sissies - 'Sissy' as a term is often used as a term to suggest that a man is gay. Sure it's not positive about the feminine either, but to pick up on one injustice at the cost of another is ludicrous. And bluntly, in this case misplaced, given how well I know Cal.
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