ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

I used to write, all the time,  about Trump's inane statements, about his ignorance, his lack of interest in learning and about his ex...

1.  One study strongly suggests that sexism played some role in Elizabeth Warren's performance in the primaries: Data for Progr...

Two years ago Donald Trump , Our Leader Extraordinaire: ordered the shutdown of the White House National Security Council's entir...

The New Sex/Gender Norms And Roles Survey:  Main Results The UN Development Program (UNDP) has published new near-global survey result...

I have the flu.  I have the flu after I got the flu vaccine.  This is the third year in a row (vaccine-flu, vaccine-flu, vaccine-flu).  So...

Have a singing and dancing Finnish parrot, Nakke: My own current parroting/writing abilities are taking a vacation right now.  No joy i...

Last weekend I traveled to New York City and for various reasons, largely laziness, ended up drinking a lot of tap water and coffee and te...

1.  Tomboys .  Where did they go? The New York Times article on this topic notes the disappearing tomboys : But this kind of tomboy...

1.  This is fun if you like making fun of song lyrics. 2.  Nancy the Ripper.  That's what I saw someone call Nancy Pelosi after she...

I came across this picture somewhere online.  It's a joke about how the way we acknowledge expertise has changed over time: The ...

This post is a giant cupboard full of tiny snippet thoughts and links that I have gathered but have not had the energy (yet) to work into ...

George Orwell, 1984 : To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hol...

Or put in politer language, an age-old solution to rape in many cultures has been to make the rapist marry his victim.  That way the cracks...

    I have been clearing out old archives and stuff, and came across my Book Project: How The Media Popularizes Sexism In Its Coverage Of ...

Yesterday I came across the one-year-old news that Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) had changed its definition of domestic violence ...

1.  There's going to be a real mansplaining conference !  This conference is aimed at us ladies.  The audience is expected to be ful...

1.  This is the time to remember  Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking Glass : “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a ...

This may be more of a rant than an advice column, because it is based on my recent deep immersion in all sorts of online worlds (1), almost...

The anal analyst would be me, because I will dedicate this post to the study and dissection of one particular piece published in Teen Vogue...

I wish you all a more clear-sighted, calm, rational and compassionate new year.  Also chocolate and love and all the other important things...