VR is Sexist
It’s always interesting to check the correspondence between the headline of an article and it’s URL. In this case, the headline reads: “Is the Oculus Rift sexist?” and the URL includes:...
View ArticleThe Myth that Rape is About Power
Myth: Rape is caused by lust or uncontrollable sexual urges and the need for sexual gratification. Fact: Rape is an act of physical violence and domination that is not motivated by sexual...
View ArticlePaglia Weighs In On Campus Sex Crimes
I like Camille Paglia a lot in no small part because the world clearly has no idea what to do with her. I mean, just look at the intro she gets to this piece for Time: Paglia is the author of...
View ArticleT&S Post: “A woman is a woman no matter what, but manhood can be lost.”
In keeping with my renewed every-other-week schedule at T&S, I posted some speculations about theology and gender at Times and Seasons yesterday: “A woman is a woman no matter what, but manhood...
View ArticleGender Occupational Fatality Gap
Economist Mark Perry has a rather different take on the gender wage gap: Economic theory tells us that the “gender occupational fatality gap” explains part of the “gender pay gap” because a...
View ArticleFamily Instability and Wages
Marriage historian Stephanie Coontz has an interesting piece in The New York Times on rising family instability. Commenting on male and female wages, she states, Today, job prospects for young men are...
View ArticleHow Atypical Was This Election?
Donald J. Trump is President Elect of the United States of America. The predictions were off. Way off (The polls themselves may not have been.)***** Numerous commentators–from the professional to the...
View ArticleWhy Trump Won, A Reminder
So we’ve got a lot of people acting as though the election of Donald J. Trump represents a seismic shift in the American electorate and–just maybe!–a prelude to the Fourth Reich. This is just a...
View ArticleHow much of gender is a social construct?
Check out this National Geographic article “How science is helping us understand gender.” Author Robin Henig outlines different intersex conditions that can be more complicated than the typical XX vs...
View ArticleGoogle, the Gender Pay Gap, and Markets
So you’ve probably seen this article making the rounds: Google Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men as It Addresses Wage Equity. It’s not hard to see why. The idea that a socially-aware megacorp tried to...
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