Sex differences, free ridership and the HPV vaccine.

So the reason I post to this article is that I was talking about structural discrimination and such things the other day(and today even), partially prompted by this article Writing about FOSS sexism(via /. post... reading /. on sexism... uh... yeah... well, at least I can say its certainly ( Read more... )

From the author of Coders at Work: Enough women in Coders at Work?(Hacker News thread).
Edit: A pair of interesting Hacker News comments: male in a female dominated engineering group and a male nurse.

Striphanger
Quote: "People see a naked woman and they smile," he said. "They see a penis and they freak out."Obviously, I think a lot could be written about asymmetry of gender issues involved in this sort of thing. It would make a great discussion actually. But in theory, I'm supposed to be doing something else right now, but I couldn't pass up ( Read more... )

I Choose My Choice! is pretty entertaining. Honestly, I find very little of it "gender specific", though(which is part of my point in linking to it). But then again, I'll admit that my biases tend to steer toward classism. Some feminist may point out that the world is ruled by a bunch of pasty old white guys. I would point out that the vast ( Read more... )

The Extreme Google Brain. I'm still reading it, but I find this article to be fascinating(as much about the writer's worldview as anything). I wonder what he would say about The Programmer's Stone since he seems to have a different worldview on ADD/ADHD. Also, the gender stuff in there... fascinating set of accusations. (Just for reference, my own ( Read more... )

The Brilliant Bechdel/Wallace Movie Test, basically: To be worth watching, a movie must

1. Have at least two women in it,
2. who talk to each other,
3. about something besides a man.

Sounds good to me...