Why is Silicon Valley so Awful to Women?(Cover story, so warning, it’s a long article, but worth your time)

But in the past couple of years, Intel decided to try a few other approaches, including hiring quotas ( Read more... )

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"That willingness to gamble is male privilege: It centers the desire to pick up a woman over the possibility that she wants to be left alone ( Read more... )

They were showing both original Ghostbusters on Sundance channel last night (no, I did not stay up all night to watch both of them. It was bad enough that I stayed up late to watch the first one all the way through). But I need to find time to watch the new, all female, Ghostbusters. Because I’ve read so many articles praising it for being a ( Read more... )

I survived another week of work. Things have slowly been getting a little better. I’m understanding the product more and I feel like I’m starting to get a little traction and make progress on my projects and Getting Shit Done™. But there’s still way too much magical thinking and assuming that “everyone knows” things that are not common ( Read more... )

This is a beautiful response to an unsolicited dick pick. Even better, it should be safe for work, as the woman rather brilliantly censored the photos in the conversation before she posted it.

Brilliant. Seriously brilliant. I love it whenever I read about women calling men out on their random sleaze on the internet.

After guy_todd’s Anchoress comment the other day, I ended up doing some reading about female hermits for some reason.

To be alone, after all, is to admit to that rare quality: a contentment with one’s self ( Read more... )

Reading Facebook yesterday I came across two very different stories about women and religion, or how religion treats women. Reading one right after the other and comparing the two was really quite interesting.

The first was a story about how Orthodox Jews are demanding not to be seated next to women on planes if they are not related to them.

“My ( Read more... )

I was going to write a post about what I’m grateful for, because the other day malterre made a post about what she’s grateful for in response to an Everyday Feminism post that she couldn’t find (I suspect it was this one about everyday class privilege). But then I found and read that Everyday Feminism post, and now I’m not feeling grateful any more, I’m ( Read more... )

From a fantastic essay in Harpers about finding meaning in life:

Questions about happiness generally assume that we know what a happy life looks like. Happiness is understood to be a matter of having a great many ducks lined up in a row - spouse, offspring, private property, erotic experiences - even though a millisecond of reflection will bring ( Read more... )