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There are several very basic misunderstandings of how things work when it come to engendering and encouraging diversity, and I’d like to make a few comments with the aim of clearing them up, at least partially. One example of a misunderstanding came up a while back when some of us were complaining about the number [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sexism’
The More Than Men Project
January 20th, 2012 
Greg Laden The More than Men Project is an effort initiated by the Women Thinking Free Foundation to develop a space where men, often white and/or straight and/or Of Priv, could spend a little time and energy telling their fellow Hetero-occidentaloid-Y-chromosomists something useful or interesting about diversity, and to encourage the promotion of said diversity. When I [...]
Women in Elevators and Black Guys Sneaking Up Behind You
January 16th, 2012 Greg Laden As you may know, I wrote a post, Women in Elevators: A Man To Man Talk For The Menz, in which I wrote: I am not afraid of dogs, and most women are probably not “afraid of men.” Except I’m actually afraid of dogs and most women are justifiably afraid of men. If you get [...]
Females Are Not welcome in the Atheist Community
January 5th, 2012 Greg Laden Females, especially younger women and girls, are not as welcome in the Atheist Community as are men. There are indeed many women who are atheists, and many of those are quite active. But to be a woman active in the atheist community, two things are almost always, I think, true: 1) You are not allowed [...]
We’ve Talked About This Enough, We Can Shut Up Now (Or, Don’t Feed the Trolls)
December 19th, 2011 Greg Laden Continuing from the previous conversation … I’ve written about this before (Shut up about everything all the time unless what you have to say is HITLER!!!!) and it relates to the previously discussed topic, as Godwin-Scaping is a way to tell someone to stop talking. Richard Dawkins told Rebecca Watson that her comments were not [...]
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Tags: Feminism, Sexism, Skepticism 
25 Comments »Making sense of our fights on the Internet
December 15th, 2011 Greg Laden After the Big Bang, more or less evenly distributed stuff and energy somehow became slightly unevenly distributed, which caused a kind of Universal Angular Momentum to set in which gave early heterogeneity and structure to everything that existed. The lightest elements formed more or less spontaneously, but in order for heavier elements to form matter [...]
Posted in Feminism, Sexism, Sexuality, Skeptical Skepticism Tags: Elevatorgate, Feminism, Rebecca Watson, Rebeccapocalypse, Richard Dawkins, Sexism 13 Comments »Question: When is Rebecca Watson going to learn to shut up?
November 12th, 2011 Greg Laden Answer: When her burka comes back from the dry cleaners! De-dum dum….. Now THAT was funny. Unlike Kurt Metzger. Kurt has suggested that women can avoid feeling sexualized by sticking to purdah. That’s when a woman covers herself from head to toe, inclusively, with cloth. It is a practice of patrarchical, misogynist societies in which [...]
“Girls Can’t Do Math”
October 9th, 2011 Greg Laden Look at this picture and ask yourself if it is funny, or if it is … something other than funny:
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