Quickies

  • Illustration of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

    Skepchick Quickies, 4.25

    Your logical fallacy is …. A handy, web-based guide. Should a dateless teen be banned from prom? (From Kirsten.) From Penny Arcade: bullying, misogyny and hate speech that occurs within the gaming community. (From Kyle.) Intelligence and other stereotypes:the power of mindset.

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  • Skepchick Quickies 4.24

    The girl's guide to calling out sexism without being attacked – "At the very least, women who call out sexism can expect to hear the B word, which makes me beg the question: Is it even possible to nip sexism in the bud without a little mud getting slung your way?" Planned Parenthood worried it's the target of a new…

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  • Female scientist testing equipment

    Skepchick Quickies, 4.23

    Cryobots could drill into icy moons with remote fiber-optic laser power. I couldn’t improve on that sentence if I tried. Kids narrate the lives of wild animals for “Planet Earth”. (From Holly.) History, women and mathematics. “Oh, You Sexy Geek!” Geek girls and the problem of self-objectification.

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  • Skepchick Quickies 4.20

    Fornication the "cause of unwanted pregnancies" – Fighting for women's rights in Ireland. From Ashley. Elderly perv falsely diagnosed cancer in women so he could sexually assault and use weird gadgets on them – He used pseudoscience as a thinly veiled way to take advantage of and molest these women that he lied to. From Ben. How to apologize –…

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  • Skepchick Quickies 4.19

    Should kids go vegan? – From Ray. American women dominate this year's Orange Prize shortlist – The award is, "Britain’s annual prize that goes to a novel written by a woman in English." Vatican orders crackdown on radical US nuns – "It says the group is undermining Roman Catholic teaching on homosexuality and is promoting "feminist themes incompatible with the…

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  • Cartoon of a blue male figure and two pink females, with one revealing a blue undertone

    Skepchick Quickies, 4.18

    “About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking contaminated water at a high school in the country’s north, officials said, blaming it on conservative radicals opposed to female education.” Couple sues landlord over a haunted house. “… a quick peek around the animal kingdom reveals that sex and animal behavior don’t always break down into neat “one male,…

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  • Skepchick Quickies 4.17

    No one called me a slut – A woman writes about her experience of having an abortion in 1978 and shows just how much we've backslid in 34 years. Dear daughter – "So. The world hates you. You are considered the worst thing to be compared to. Throw like a girl. Talk like a girl. Cry like a girl. God…

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  • Santa character sketch for Super-Powered Revenge Christmas

    Skepchick Quickies, 4.16

    Intelligence and other stereotypes: the power of mindset. Interview with Sanal Edamaruku on the recent blasphemy harges against him in Mumbai, India for exposing a fake “miracle” claim of the Catholic Church. (From Josh.) Everything you never thought you needed to know about giant pandas’ tricky sex lives. Five Titanic myths spread by films. A couple of Kickstarters worth backing:…

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