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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Music for Saturday, Instead of Paul Ryan Analysis

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Because I'm still ignorant of recent American politics (o divine vacation!), I offer you instead the divine Nina Simone in a song which...
Friday, August 10, 2012

The Best Places To Eat

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Appear to hang from heterosexual men's crotches if this Newsweek cover is to be taken seriously. It's just asparagus, of co...
Thursday, August 09, 2012

Today's Thought on Evolutionary Psychology

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I recently got into a conversation where I was accused of being a creationist because I criticize evolutionary psychology of the misogynist...

On David Brooks, the Taliban and the Boy Crisis At School

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What a way to get back into the saddle after a vacation!  Someone sent me a link to David Brooks' July column about the need to change ...

A Rant About Whoever Changes My Computer Stuff. A Repost.

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From here.   My complaints still apply.  They also  extend to Facebook and to all tools I use for blogging except for my machine itself, t...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

I Have Returned

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As one is supposed to say at a moment like this.  Sadly, my time clock thinks it's roughly 4am tomorrow and the poor avatar I (the godd...

Women On Stilts. A Repost

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A fairly recent one .
Tuesday, August 07, 2012

How The Buttocks Came To Be. Echidne Does Evolutionary Psychology.

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This post is a very early one!  Most of the links are dead, sadly, and I don't have time to work on those right now.  It's just mea...
Monday, August 06, 2012

The Thirty-Percent Solution To Scarcity of Women in Politics. A Repost.

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I wrote this post in the past and my views may have evolved slightly.   But I still agree with its basic arguments.  I have come to apprec...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

A Repost: The Decline Effect

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I recommend this as a complement to my critiques of EP studies and such.
Saturday, August 04, 2012

Why Selective Popularizations of Gender Science Matter. A Repost.

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Linked to the previous post and the earlier summer reruns of my gender science series, this pos t is well worth reading and thinking about...
Friday, August 03, 2012

The Gender Studies Which Don't Get Popularized. A Repost.

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This is a fun example of the kind of study we won't find screaming at us from every single channel when we wake up.
Thursday, August 02, 2012

How To Judge Social Science Research

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This post is still pretty much how I think of the salient points.  I should note that the promotion of papers before they are at all avail...
Wednesday, August 01, 2012

On The Quest For Unattainable Perfection. A Repost.

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 This rant is adapted from here . The topic of this post is the view of eating and exercise as a moral or religious enterprise or a comp...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

A Repost: Why Would Wal-Mart Hire Any Men?

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This is actually a pretty important post because a commonly heard argument from some people is that women can't be discriminated again...
Monday, July 30, 2012

A Repost: Your Inner Glass Ceiling

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This post also addresses the possible reasons for the gender gap in wages.  Like it's your own fault and so on.
Sunday, July 29, 2012

There Is No Gender Gap in Wages, Silly Women. Part 2.

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The second post in this series can be found here.
Saturday, July 28, 2012

There Is No Gender Gap in Wages, Silly Women! Part 1

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This is the first of two posts which add to the arguments in the gender gap series.  It's based on more recent political debates than...
Friday, July 27, 2012

The Gender Gap Series: Addressing the Wingnuts and the MRAs

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The third and last post in this series discusses the politicization of the gender gap concept and why almost all the treatments of it are t...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

The Gender Gap Series: Empirical Evidence

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In this one I look in great detail at one study .  It's somewhat outdated by now but the point of the post is to explain how these kind...
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