[ETA: Welcome Mefites! The posts you are looking for is are here and here. Those are original content on the theme, this is mostly just a pointer back to to the original thread.]PAGING ALL FEMINISTS. REPEAT: PAGING ALL FEMINISTS. PAGING ALL FEMINISTS, ALL WOMEN'S LIBBERS, FEMINIST ALLIES, FEMINIST DOUBTERS, ANTI-FEMINISTS, REALLY ALL WOMEN, ALL ( Read more... )

Huh, this just crossed my desk:

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CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap Theatrical Trailer from Finish Line Features, LLC on Vimeo.
Doesn't look like it says anything really novel, but it's good to put a face to these things and organize them and put them all in one place for convenient reference ( Read more... )

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http://blogs.laweekly.com/stylecouncil/2011/07/gender_bent_justice_league.php

A group of cosplayers make a fabulous point at ComiCon. "A couple of us like to do female versions of preexisting male characters. One of our friends, Psykitten ( Read more... )

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They're right.Or at least, Group Selection is right. I've been reasonably certain Kin Selection was mathematically ludicrous since I learned about it at age 15, and it didn't add up then, but I figured actual scientists must have looked into it and I would hold my opinion until I had a chance to hear what they said. I got a little distracted ( Read more... )

So I finally saw Ultraviolet courtesy of Netflix. In short, it was a hot mess, with a bunch of inspired cinematographic moments, some Waterworld-bungie-cord moments of fight choreography (we all know of "suspension of disbelief", but these indicate a related-but-different "suspension of mirth") and lots of ravishing architecture shot up by a well- ( Read more... )

Ok, this isn't an emergency, but it's something which would be useful for me to have by 6pm tonight, and I don't have time to go looking for it -- and figure someone here might just know what I'm looking for off the top of her head ( Read more... )

I have a backlog of substantive things to post about so long that it's almost demoralizing. In particular, I have a whole lot I want to say on women, geekiness, STEM, gender, feminism, development, families, giftedness and events I've recently attended, books and research I've recently read, and papers I have recently, or will soon, write ( Read more... )

1) I had my appointment with my pshrink last night. I had at the previous appointment printed out the How to Make Friends (for INTPs) and Friendly Christmas Advice posts for her to read. I'd included the full comments, too. Quite aside from what she and I talked about, wrt me, she was very fascinated and impressed by the discourse in the ( Read more... )