The provost of UCL has issued a new statement.
Does he apologize and offer to reinstate Tim Hunt as an honorary professor?
No.
UCL was the first University in England to admit women on equal terms to men. Equality between the sexes is one of our core values, yet this past fortnight our commitment to women and to women in science has been challenged, our reputation put under pressure and we have been part of an intense and uncomfortable media storm.
In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Courtruled on Friday that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in the 5 to 4 decision. He was joined by the court’s four more liberal justices.
As Eddie Tabash likes to say, it’s Justice Kennedy’s world and we all live in it. This time it worked out.
Scalia of course had to poop on the party.
In a second dissent, Justice Scalia mocked Justice Kennedy’s soaring language.
“The opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic,” Justice Scalia wrote of his colleague’s work. “Of course the opinion’s showy profundities are often profoundly incoherent.”
He’s just jealous.
The pope talked a bunch of awful shit on Sunday the 14th, the day after Rome’s gay pride march.
Addressing around 25,000 followers from the Diocese of Rome, the pope said the differences between men and women are fundamental and “an integral part of being human.”
Bullshit. People have all sorts of differences, of personality and temperament and kinds of talents and all sorts. The ones between women and men are not the only or the most special ones, and it’s certainly not the pope’s job to hype them. What does he know about it?!
The pontiff likened a long-lasting marriage to a good wine, in which a husband and wife make the most of their gender differences.
“They’re not scared of the differences!” the pope said. “What great richness this diversity is, a diversity which becomes complementary, but also reciprocal. It binds them, one to the other.”
Well at least we know that if we do see sexism anywhere we can point it out without repercussions.
Hahahahaha just kidding, no we don’t. Look what happened to Rose McGowan for instance.
Pushback against Hollywood sexism seems to have gotten Rose McGowan dropped from the talent agency Innovative Artists.
Late Wednesday, the actress and director wrote on Twitter that her agent fired her because she “spoke up” about Hollywood casting practices, adding the hashtag #BRINGIT. Last week, the actress had tweeted the casting notes from a movie whose star, she wrote, has a name that “rhymes with Madam Panhandler.”
More choicey-choice choice: a woman in a hijab explains that it’s all about rejecting consumerism. It’s a choice to reject consumerism by (as she puts it) covering up.
The liberation lies in the choice.
She does admit, impatiently, that yes women in some places are forced to wear it, but then brushes that off to return to her main point, that the veil is not a symbol of oppression.
The first two funerals for the victims of the racist shootings in Charleston are being held today.
The services for Ethel Lee Lance and Sharonda Coleman-Singleton will both take place after viewings at Baptist churches in North Charleston.
Ms Lance, 70, worked for the church for 30 years and was a mother of five.
Abigail Darlington at the Charleston Post and Courier wrote a profile of Lance last week.
Ethel Lance loved to dress up and take her family to see performances at the Gaillard Municipal Auditorium when she wasn’t on duty there as a custodian.
Best headline of the day:
Man arrested for pouring syrup on sidewalk
Police were called around 10 a.m. Thursday, and found a strange “unknown, sticky liquid” covering a four-foot area on the corner of Summers Lane downtown, police say.
A city road crew had to be called in to clean up the liquid. “They think it might’ve been a syrup — maybe maple syrup,” said city spokesperson Kelly Anderson. “But they don’t know for sure what it was.”
Well why didn’t they taste it?
Witnesses pointed out the man they said was responsible, and police arrested the 56-year-old for mischief. “He caused resources to have to be deployed to clean this stuff up,” said Const. Steve Welton.
City crews had to lay down “absorbent material” to clean up the mess, Anderson said.
I bet it was honey. I bet I know where the honey came from, too.
Charles Seife @cgseife 6 hours ago
I asked EU official @marcinmonko if he was the source of #timhunt Times “transcript,” and if he was recording/taking notes. (1/2)His full response: “The document that the Times refers to is an internal report, not a verbatim transcript.” (2/2) #timhunt
Not a verbatim transcipt.
Guest post by Josh Spokes
Reflexively voicing your “support for their right to choose this choice” actually serves a regressive, right-wing political project.
Have you ever noticed that the idea of “choice” and “agency” is only ever invoked to defend the right to enact stereotyped roles that have not only been culturally favored, but culturally enforced?
I’m serious—that’s really important and worth talking about. One only ever gets pushback about “defending their right to X” when the X is taking on a stereotyped role. [Read more…]
