Feminism
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Global Quickies: 07/12/13
This week’s links come with a little bit of everything. Check them out! POLAND A German newspaper reports the case of an atheist coma patient who was given the “extreme unction” by a priest, and, upon recovery and finding out about this, sued the hospital for disrespecting his freedom of conscience. The Supreme Court agreed with him and a lower…
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That David Bowie Movie Was Fiction: The Labyrinth of Choice
I spent a decent portion of my teenage years watching two movies on repeat: Labyrinth, that ridiculously 1980s Jim Henson + David Bowie concoction (complete with fan theories written about at Mad Art Lab), and Fight Club. I’ll leave it up to you to figure out what that says about me. What I wanted to focus on was what the…
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The Power of a Position
Bryan Cantrill is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Joyent, a cloud infrastructure company. Like many tech companies, Joyent has a management team made up of mostly white males. Unlike some tech companies, Joyent (via Cantrill) recently came out with a strong statement in favor of the power of a pronoun – a gender-neutral one, to be specific. Joyent is…
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Global Quickies: 30/11/13
Here’s your weekly dose of links from around the world! AUSTRALIA (from Jack99) The Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) lost an appeal against the order to change their name for being misleading. The Fair Trading Minister said the Ministry reserves the right to reject any names they consider inappropriate for this anti-vaccination lobby. MEXICO Mexican observatory pushes the limits of gamma…
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Stop Asking “What Did You Expect?”
Many a non-activist has wondered what can be done at the layperson’s level to help in the quest to make the world a better place. One answer — to raise your everyday, expressed expectations — may sound like a platitude, but it isn’t. It’s not overly idealistic to believe that raising expectations can change at least the part of the world…
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The Beastie Boys vs. GoldieBlox
Last week, everyone on the Internet watched the newest ad for Goldieblox, the company that sells engineering toys targeted at girls. In the most recent video, little girls build a Rube Goldberg machine while a parody of the Beastie Boys song “Girls” plays. If you’ve been in a cave and haven’t seen it, check it out here: A few days…
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Global Quickies: 23/11/2013
PHILIPPINES Take a look at the relief operations that the Philippine Atheists and Agnostics Society (PATAS) have set up after the devastating Typhoon Haiyan swept the country. Oh, yeah, and some Catholics are donating rosaries. ISRAEL Rabbi says women should not operate the horseless carriage because in the past only men drove horse-drawn vehicles, and that Rabbis who permit women…
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Selfies
In case your twitter was broken yesterday or you live in a cave I would like to bring your attention to an article published on the website, Jezebel. The article called, Selfies Aren’t Empowering. They’re a Cry for Help was by far one of the most shallow posts I’ve read since I last looked at the pages of TMZ. The…
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