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Quickies: A world built for men & a new generation of villainous women characters
Men rigged a world built for them and called it ‘neutral’—women call bullshit – “It’s not that I think we should rebuild the world for women, but it might be a decent experiment for, say, five years. Then men could experience what it feels like to be erased from the public consciousness, to not even be considered “the public” at…
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Quickies: TERFs and the right wing, a history of vaccination, and neighborhood apps
The unholy alliance of TERFs and the right wing – “It’s clear why religious conservatives have entered into a pragmatic alliance with groups like WoLF—recognizing that they have lost the cultural and political battle against gay marriage, they have shifted to fight the expansion of trans rights, and see allying with TERFs as a strategic partnership.” An evolutionary psychology quiz…
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Creating a far-right movement, who IS the mysterious gut doctor, teens protesting the Methodist church
Want to build a far-right movement? Spain’s Vox party shows how – “Opposition to Catalan and Basque separatism; opposition to feminism and same-sex marriage; opposition to immigration, especially by Muslims; anger at corruption; boredom with mainstream politics; a handful of issues, such as hunting and gun ownership, that some people care a lot about and others don’t know exist; plus…
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Botanical sexism, queer skeptics, and multi-use washroom
Botanical sexism cultivates home-grown allergies – “In order to put the brakes on America’s allergy epidemic, we need to reverse the trend toward male-dominated landscapes and stop selling and planting any more of the most allergenic trees, shrubs and grasses in our cities.” Meet the Queer Skeptics who hate astrology – “So how does it feel to navigate a community…
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Quickies: Unconscious bias, black feminists vs. the alt-right, and the science of traffic
Unconscious bias is running for President – “I’ve just spent a month watching white male people in particular arguing about who has charisma or relatability or electability. They speak as if these were objective qualities, and as if their own particular take on them was truth or fact rather than taste, and as if what white men like is what…
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Quickies: Conspiracy theories, crafting protest, and whitewashing movies
The conspiracy theories of Trumpland – “To help you navigate the vast assortment of conspiracy theories to which Trump’s staffers subscribe, we’ve compiled a bestiary of crackpot beliefs, pseudo-scientific ideas, and anything otherwise insane that’s come out of the mouths of his cronies and hangers-on who have boldly stood up for what they believe in.” From Criticaldragon1177. Craft’s long history…
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Quickies: A day without women, being child-free, and the new Storm
What would a literal day without a woman do to the world? – “Yes, in this hypothetical scenario, people would generally be making more money, but that’s only because in the real world, the wage gap still exists between women and men, and women also work significantly more minimum wage jobs than men (almost 66%).” Child-free and okay with it,…
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Quickies: Evolution of human birth, doctors treat women’s pain differently, and Trump on autism
The evolution of human birth – The latest video from Brain Scoop. Your pain is not real: How doctors discriminate against women – “According to a ResearchGate investigation, there are more than five times as many scientific studies about erectile disfunction as there are about PMS, although 19 percent of men report suffering from erectile dysfunction at some point in…
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