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    Gender Roles at the Olympics

    My love for all things quirky has resulted in a youtube algorithm setting that appears to serve me up the finest random stuff.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 12, 2024
    • For laughs, Fun, Gender, Gender issues
    • 14 Comments

    More Detailed B.S.

    Some people take the whole “alpha male” concept way too seriously, and too far.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • December 27, 2022
    • Gender issues, Propaganda, Things that make blood squirt out my ears
    • 28 Comments

    Squick and Squeam At Fox

    It would appear that Tucker Carlson’s surprise “trout fishing vacation” happened when he learned about the new lawsuit against Fox, in which he appears as a member of the supporting cast.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 21, 2020
    • Burn it to the ground, Gender issues
    • 6 Comments

    Pseudonyms On The Internet

    My attitude toward internet pseudonyms is probably a bit odd; I’m not sure, though. I don’t know if this will interest any of you, but “why not?”

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 18, 2020
    • Click Bait, Cyberwar, Gaming, Gender issues, I don't even know how to categorize this one
    • 34 Comments

    Theatrical Gender as a Performance

    Someone swapped the models in Arkham Asylum so that Batman and Catwoman were inverted.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 20, 2020
    • Art, Gaming, Gender, Gender issues

    Sunday School: Let’s Deconstruct Some Pinker

    Recent discussion in some comments brought up the nature/nurture question and Steven Pinker’s book The Blank Slate.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • February 25, 2018
    • Book Report, Burn it to the ground, Feminism, Gender issues, Sunday Sermon

    It Feels Like an Ass

    Warning: Discussion of Butts, particularly squeezing thereof.

    I’m going to vent for just a second.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 23, 2017
    • Burn it to the ground, Gender issues, Randomness

    Don’t Forgive or Forget the Renfields

    I call them “Renfields” after the vampire’s slave in Dracula. They’re the weak, beglamoured, cowardly, venal, crippled, soul-dead followers of a master vampire: their sense of right or wrong is completely overruled and all that’s left is fear of the master’s displeasure.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 21, 2017
    • Burn it to the ground, Gender issues

    A Self-Reflection Exercise

    PZ wonders if he’s as flawed as the people being accused. [pha] That little bit of effort is part of living an examined life.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 16, 2017
    • Gender, Gender issues

    More on the Googlebro – The AI Take

    I got into a lengthy facebook flail-a-thon [here] with some real live biological determinists, last night. Seriously! I had allowed myself to believe that such people didn’t actually exist. Silly me. Now I remember why my appearances on facebook are brief (occasionally I use a stealth account to do investigations) and are usually followed by years of silence.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 10, 2017
    • Burn it to the ground, Gender, Gender issues
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