Culture & Media Feminist Frequency and the Truth About Video Games Posted on August 30, 20187 commentsbyChristopher Ferguson Since 2013, the Feminist Frequency series Tropes vs Women has been an important voice in examining and reshaping how female characters are portrayed in video games. Featuring executive director Anita… View Post
View Post 10 min Culture & Media The Task Facing Masculinity. Posted on July 6, 2018July 7, 201812 commentsbyConor Barnes “I think everyone would agree the world would be a better place if we had less testosterone.” My friend shared this quote with me in bemusement after he heard it… View Post
View Post 7 min Culture & Media Time to Call a Truce in the Gender Wars Posted on November 5, 2017December 30, 20173 commentsbyAR Devine If you are a news and current affairs junkie like myself, you could quickly come to the conclusion that men and women are at war with each other across the… View Post
View Post 4 min Culture & Media Is Cordelia Fine’s Award from the Royal Society an Escalation of the Culture Wars? Posted on September 23, 2017September 24, 20179 commentsbyAndrew Sabisky One occasionally hears it said, generally by intelligent people who have turned their brains off for a moment, that science and politics don’t mix, and shouldn’t. This is of course… View Post
View Post 6 min Politics In Defense of the Google Manifesto Posted on August 8, 2017March 14, 201815 commentsbyMalhar Mali James Damore, the Google employee who wrote the viral Google manifesto, was fired yesterday for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” From the various reactions I’ve read, you would think Damore wrote the next… View Post
View Post 9 min Culture & Media If Gifted Children Exist, Does a Meritocracy Still Make Sense? Posted on August 2, 2017September 8, 20175 commentsbyJonathan Gleadell The lamentable and dangerous myth persists that there is no such thing as innate talent or a gifted child. Whilst we might concede that if you are not born with… View Post
View Post 21 min Science & Tech Sex and Gender Are Dials (Not Switches) Posted on August 1, 2017September 8, 20179 commentsbyDavid P. Schmitt It has become more and more common for young people around the world to describe themselves not as a “man” or a “woman,” but as “something else.” One term for… View Post
View Post 3 min Science & Tech What Science Has to Say About Gender Identity Posted on July 29, 2017September 8, 201710 commentsbyGregory Hickok A few days ago, President Trump announced that transgender individuals would not be allowed to serve in the U.S. Military. This follows a previous Trump reversal of guidelines put in place by President… View Post
View Post 13 min Culture & Media Science & Tech Gender Trouble: Gender Feminism and the Blank Slate Posted on March 16, 2017September 9, 201720 commentsbyMalhar Mali “There is no reason to assume that gender also ought to remain as two. The presumption of a binary gender system implicitly retains the belief in a mimetic relation of… View Post