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Quickies
Quickies: MRAs, Typewriter Noises, and Donating to Charity in the Name of Non-consent
Open letter to the gaming community – A concise letter, the gist of which is “if you see something, say something.” From mrmisconception. Grover Norquist Goes to Burning Man – “Norquist has been at Burning Man for less than a day, but he’s already learning lots of new things — including the word taint, which, after a moment of confusion,…
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Quickies: Homeless Women, Anita Sarkeesian, and Rowdy (White) Retirement Communities
One Woman’s Lessons From Living On The Street – “Susan says life on the streets is a constant battle for all homeless people, but for women it’s particularly hard. On top of the everyday challenges of finding food and a safe place to sleep, she says, women face the threat of sexual violence and cruelty.” Brazilian Town Run by Women…
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Guest Bloggers
Guest Post: The Second Amendment is for White People
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post, by Jon Childress, is a must-read on the racial politics of guns in America. ****** If you haven’t been following (on social media, not cable news) the finally-concluding force escalation against protesters by police after the fatal shooting of unarmed Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, you’re missing what should one day be…
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Quickies: Prayer Meetings, Anti-Vax Mentality, and the Indifference of White America
How neuroscience is being used to spread quackery in business and education – The origin of the phrase “cargo-cult science” and how charlatans and pseudoscientists are co-opting neuroscience language without the actual science. From Rebecca. W.E.B. DuBois on the Indifference of White America – This was written decades ago, and it’s still maddeningly relevant. Atheists Get The Shaft In New York…
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Feminism
Cross Post: The Radical Notion that Children are People
Editor’s Note: This cross post from Grounded Parents was written by Cassandra Phoenix. Click through the link at the bottom to read the full post and make comments. ****** I have no beef with people who choose to be childfree. I mean, there are enough people in the world that having people willingly abstain from breeding is probably a better…
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Quickies
Quickies: Bill Nye Fights for Science, Gaming Misogyny, and Comic Book Parents
Tuskegee Syphilis Study Recruitment Letter – An example of the letter sent out to some black men in Alabama, in one of the most infamous cases of unethical science. Gaming Misogyny Gets Infinite Lives: Zoe Quinn, Virtual Rape, and Sexism – “A lady developer was harassed by her vindictive ex-boyfriend. Some gamers ‘rape’ other avatars in Grand Theft Auto V.…
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Book Club
Skepchick Book Club: Life Ascending
Note: Information about next month’s book is at the bottom of this post. Welcome back to the Skepchick Book Club! This month we read Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, a very comprehensive tome about evolutionary science and what exactly scientists know about life. Reviews for this book are very positive, and I agree with the reviews that the author…
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Quickies
Quickies: Teenage Nostalgia, Sexism is Great?, and Domestic Violence
Neural Nostalgia – “Why do we love the music we heard as teenagers?” It’s true–I’m definitely more into the music of my teenagehood now than I was when I was a teenager. What If Sexism Is Actually Great? – “We were wrong about street sexual harassment. It is not, as we have written, man’s sad, nonspecific attempt to assert his dominance,…
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