Saturday, August 13, 2011

A Re-Post: A Harlequin Romance Snippet

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This would be a Victorian romance with heaving bosoms, handsome pirates and innocent maidens in whalebone corsets. Here's the crescendo...

Catching Up on My New Yorkers (by res ipsa)

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Did anyone read this profile of French feminist Elisabeth Badinter ? I have to admit that I'd never heard of her. Unfortunately, the pro...

Riot Rebuild (by res ipsa)

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Another "Nothing to do with Feminism" post. This story -- and especially the part about the barber who has been helped by total...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Reading THE HANDMAID'S TALE: II (by res ipsa)

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I just finished the book and wanted to throw out two questions. First, is the book anti-feminist? Offred's mother evokes the femin...

Contraception in the milieu of health care reform: Redux (by Skylanda)

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Not long ago, during a yawn-inducing day of medical review lectures, a particular speaker threw a PowerPoint slide onto the screen with a ...

A Re-Post: Three-Dimensional Mental Rotation

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This is the fourth post in my series concerning the science of sex differences. The earlier ones can be found here , in the order of t...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

A Re-Post: Studying Sex Differences in Science: A Story

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This is the third post in the series, originally from here . In 1995 a wife-husband research team published the first study appearing to ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

That Newsweek Cover (by res ipsa)

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So, sexist or not-sexist ? What about the headline? And before I forget, what about the great migraine controversy raised by Tim Pawlenty? ...

A Re-Post: Looking for Sex Differences: The Complications

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This is the second post about my quick impressions after reading three critical books about the science of sex differences, and it has to ...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Order in the Court (by res ipsa)

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Trigger warnings for rape and incest. Yesterday I read this NYT story about a New York rapist whose appeal of his conviction is based o...

The gambler against the house: Fundamental flaws in the health insurance model (by Skylanda)

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Last time the brakes on your car wore thin (or in my case, the last time I blew an aneurysm into the sidewall of my snow tires on last year’...

A Re-Post: On Ballerinas and Football Players. The Failure of Gender-Neutral Parenting

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Introduction This week I'm going to write up some of the ideas I got from reading on the science of sex differences, off-the-cuff mos...
Monday, August 08, 2011

This Post Has Nothing to Do With Feminism (by res ipsa)

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It has to do with gardening, specifically, the pests that will screw up said gardening, this pest in particular. How do you get rid of the...

A Re-Post: Introduction to My Series on Gender Science

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I wrote the posts in this series from last December to January. They will appear here one per day this week. This one is originally from ...

Bess gets a life (by Suzie)

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“The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,” a musical adaptation of the 1935 opera, will open Aug. 17 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambrid...

A Guest Post by Anna: A Feminist Criticism of Jack Kevorkian

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A Feminist Criticism of Jack Kevorkian by Anna Why do Kevorkian’s actions have feminist implications? They do because women’s lives, part...
Sunday, August 07, 2011

A Re-Post: The Decline Effect

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This is from last January . Jonas Lehrer's article is important because of the implications it has for certain biased types of researc...