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If you were hacking since age 8, it means you were privileged.
Often, computer geeks who started programming at a young age brag about it, as it is a source of geeky prestige. However, most computer geeks are oblivious to the fact that your parents being able to...
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The Myth of White Male Geek Rationality
People who consider themselves fully rational individuals are ignorant about basic psychology and their own minds. It is easy for white men in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields...
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Nice Guys (TM) are not really nice.
Many self-identified “nice guys”, i.e., Nice GuysTM would sympathize with the male character and perceive his behaviour as being “nice”. According to Nice GuysTM, the poor male character is being...
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(Female) Geek = Geek^2
Over at Geek Feminism, Metaneira explains why Team Unicorn of G33k & G4M3R Girls fame are doing it wrong. The “G33k & G4M3R Girls” music video, stereotypically, portrayals female geeks and...
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The traditional male is an endangered species.
Why We Need to Reimagine Masculinity (Newsweek): To survive in a hostile world, guys need to embrace girly jobs and dirty diapers. Why it’s time to reimagine masculinity at work and at home. [...]...
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Women did not evolve against risk-taking and tech startups.
This is cross-posted at Geek Feminism. There is a common idea that women are underrepresented in tech startups because we are “nurturing and not risk-taking enough by nature”, an idea often proposed...
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White males blame Asians and women for attending universities intended for...
In When Asians enroll! (And other tales from meritocracy’s margins) Sarah Ghabrial writes: Meritocracy forgets privilege, and the fact that folks from marginalized groups have to work a hell of a lot...
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Performing masculinity encourages violence against women.
(To enable English or Spanish subtitles, click on “View subtitles”.) Transcript of A call to men by Tony Porter: I grew up in New York City, between Harlem and the Bronx. Growing up as a boy, we were...
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White women are stereotyped differently from Black and Asian women.
Abagond describes the Three Bears Effect: The Three Bears Effect is the name given by Aiyo at the blog Black British Girl for how whites stereotype blacks and Asians as opposites while putting...
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Does pr0n make men think that women like having sex with jerks?
As I understand it, most pr0n depicts men sexually humiliating women, being abusive, or at least being jerky towards the women they are having sex with. Many heterosexual men who are heavy Internet...
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Some scientists criticize the field of evolutionary psychology.
In The evolution of rape?, PZ Myers writes: There are days when I simply cannot bear the entire field of evolutionary psychology: it’s so deeply tainted with bad research and a lack of rigor. And that...
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Myths about Girls, Math, and Science
Top 5 Myths About Girls, Math and Science (LiveScience 2007): Myth 1: From the time they start school, most girls are less interested in science than boys are. Reality: In elementary school about as...
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The ethical corollary of “sex is a basic human need” is that rape is justified.
(Trigger Warning: This post discusses rapist logic and rape.) Some men argue that when women “withhold sex” from men, we are depriving men of their basic needs: A sense of entitlement? That’s what you...
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If tech discussion was really about tech, it wouldn’t be sexist.
Cross-posted at Geek Feminism There is sexism in tech culture. However, I continue to love tech, because I think of the sexism as a separate, unnecessary appendage to pure tech. I cannot think of...
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This is an example of sexism in tech recruitment.
This is an example of unconscious sexism in tech recruitment that assumes that women are bad with math and computers. The yellow sticky note says, “My mom has a PhD in math”. I am not a mother, but if...
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Rock Star Programmer: The Charlie Sheen Guide To Passing a Job Interview
In The Charlie Sheen Guide To Passing A Job Interview, John P. Lopez provides a very compelling case that answering interview questions exactly like Charlie Sheen would get you hired. I argue that job...
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Men agree to casual sex more, because female strangers are not considered...
Or (Heterosexual) Male privilege, not evolution or innate female frigidness, explains the gender difference in accepting random propositions for casual sex. Gender Differences and Casual Sex: The New...
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Across the calculus sections, women outperformed men on grades.
Several recent studies have suggested that the gender gap in STEM fields is caused not by bias, but simply by different choices made by men and women. What the new research shows, Dasgupta said, is...
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Misogynist activist at the University of Waterloo hates scientist Marie Curie...
In The Fourteen Not Forgotten and Sexist Posters at Waterloo, Christine Cheng discusses a misogynist activist at the University of Waterloo who put up fourteen posters last month (February 2011)...
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Carl Sagan on why his science organization should stop excluding women (1981)
If membership is restricted to men, the loss will be ours: Early-1981, following IBM’s withdrawal of support due to the organisation’s continued exclusion of women within its ranks, renowned astronomer...
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