Are you a woman? Are you a surgeon? Are you in Australia (or maybe any of many other places)? Then you should be aware of the culture in your profession.
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Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Are you a woman? Are you a surgeon? Are you in Australia (or maybe any of many other places)? Then you should be aware of the culture in your profession.
I picture David Futrelle capering gleefully right now: he has so much blog fodder falling out of the sky from the Aurini/Owen breakup. He’s posting some of the comments from misogynist fans, and a hilariously angry interview with Aurini. And now I’m all out of popcorn.
There’s a campaign in progress to put a woman’s face on the $20 bill. It’s about time! Look at all the masculine faces in your wallet — I had to look it up, but apparently a woman has graced our paper money only once in our entire history: Martha Washington, on the $1 silver certificate, way back at the end of the 19th century.
What is the average size of a human penis?
The enduring question now has a scientific answer: 13.12 centimetres (5.16 inches) in length when erect, and 11.66cm (4.6 inches) around, according to an analysis of more than 15,000 penises around the world.
In a flaccid state, it found, the penis of the average man is 9.16cm (3.6 inches) in length and has a girth of 9.31cm (3.7 inches).
I shall sleep easier tonight, knowing that knowledge has been acquired.
You may have heard that a pair of no-talent MRA hacks named Jordan Owen and Davis Aurini were making a bad “movie” called The Sarkeesian Effect. The excerpts seen so far have been uniformly atrocious: bad lighting, bad sound, droning interviews, all somehow supposed to make Anita Sarkeesian look bad.
Well, it’s a pair no longer. Owen fired Aurini. Aurini is threatening to accuse Owen of absconding with all the money they raised. It’s hilarious!
What’s worse than a gamergater? A gamergater giving medical advice.
Mike Cernovich is spreading misinformation now, in a post about avoiding STDs. He first tells us that American women, especially those feminists, are diseased and proud of it (he gives a few quotes that show that people at Jezebel are conscious of the prevalence of STDs, but not that they take pride in it). Then he shows an incomplete chart of the frequency of HIV infections, and announces If you’re a straight man, you will not get HIV.
Poor Erskine College. They recently had a successful volleyball season, then two of their players came out as gay — which shouldn’t be a problem, except that Erskine is in South Carolina, right there in the front flap of the Bible Tightie-Whities, and trustees and administrators and community supporters freaked out. What to do? Easy. They turned to the Bible and issued a statement.
Some people like to refer to “misogyny” with those scare quotes; it doesn’t really exist, they imply, and it’s certainly not worth fighting against. Others go so far as to deny sexism against women at all — oh, it’s really the men who are discriminated against. But you don’t hear stories about men being harassed off the internet, as commonly occurs to women. There are people who work really hard at making the internet a hostile place for anyone who supports feminism.
Jeff Sharlet takes on the Men's Rights Movement, describing the events at a recent conference sponsored by A Voice for Men. He definitely has the ugliest photos ever of various AVFMers, but the real killer is the words of the MRAs themselves.
Tonight! It’s going to be good! Nancy Carpenter (Chemistry), Pieranna Garavoso (Philosophy), and Rachel Johnson (Biology) will answer all the questions you might have about women’s experiences in science.
