|
Debunking Myths about Gender and Mathematics Performance?
2011-12-22 06:16:00 There is an amusing paper in the forthcoming JANUARY 2012 NOTICES OF THE AMS (American Mathematical Society) which purports to show that it is only oppression of women by society which causes females not to do well in mathematics. The paper was of course zealous to rule out genetic differences but that does ...
Gender-Policing Ron Paul
2011-12-16 19:35:00 My best friend from Harvard is gradually winning me over to support Ron Paul's presidential candidacy over Obama's. The feisty libertarian is holding his own in the GOP race despite derision from self-styled experts in both parties and some suspicious poll-doctoring by the major news networks. Anyone with so wide a range of ideological enemies is probably putting his finger on some uncomfortable truths about our country's asset bubble, military over-spending, creeping police state, and substitution of "culture wars" for genuine solutions. The site Ron Paul Myths gives a good overview of his actual positions and how they've been misrepresented. This morning my friend called my attention to this generally favorable Washington Post article, which nonetheless treats the Texas congressman as something of a sideshow act. As Hillary Clinton found, gender-policing is one of the tools that commentators use to undermine a candidate, making it seem ridiculous, even unnatural, for this pers...
By: Reiter's Block
Gender reveal party haters! What you got against cake?
2011-05-26 03:51:00 Me, I like to party (see previous). Oscars? Sure, I haven't seen the movies, but I'll don a hat and eat movie style popcorn in a living room. Superbowl? Not a huge football fan, but I bring the magic every here and yay with some brews and a navy/orange eye make-up combo. Spring Martha from Jail parties? Oprah's never coming back so let's dance parties? Block parties, deck patries, mock the royals parties and theme parties of all kinds? LOVE THEM!So I don't understand why are people hating all over gender reveal parties.A bakery in New York has upped its business lately by selling "gender reveal' cakes to expectant parents. Sayeth the New York Post . . .Instead of hearing the...
Review "Orlando": Love Story Transcends Time, Gender and the Ruhl
2011-03-29 01:29:00 Boy meets girl. Boy falls for girl. Boy wakes up as a girl. Oh boy or girl, its a gender-bender tale of discovery. Court Theatre presents ORLANDO based on the novel by Virginia Woolf and adapted to the stage by Playwright Sarah Ruhl. Woolf wrote ORLANDO as a fantastical, love letter to, not her husband but, her mistress, Vita Sackville-West. In the Elizabethan era, a teenage boy catches the eye of the Queen. She amply rewards him for his good looks and charm. Orlando continues to captivate the ladies of the court until he falls hard for an ice skater. She breaks the ice and later his heart. He goes on a sexual bender to forget and wakes up seven days later as a woman. His sexual identity continues to be an ageless mystery. A thirty-something Orlando lives on to present day as an androgynous poet. ORLANDO is "Benjamin Button" meets "Victor/Victoria" during the "Crying Game." It's a love story that transcends time, gender and the Ruhls. Playwright Sarah Ruhls and Jessica T...
Gender-Based Toy Marketing at Target and Wal-Mart
2011-03-14 03:41:00 Gender-based toy marketing contributes to bullying
Gender JUST releases Mayoral Scorecard
2011-02-16 19:50:00 Being a queermo can making voting in elections really hard. Even the LGBT newspapers often rate and endorse candidates based on values that many queers don't share - like hate crimes legislation and same-sex marriage.Grassroots queer youth organization, Gender JUST has just released its own scorecard on Chicago's mayoral candidates. This is the first scorecard I have seen that shares most of my values as a queer person. CHECK IT OUT!...
Pick The Gender of Your Baby.com
2011-01-16 01:39:00 Pick The Gender of Your Baby.com Guaranteed to give you the baby of the gender of your choice. Pick The Gender of Your Baby.com The Gluten Free Bible – An Insiders Guide to Going Gluten Free An step by step guide for people beginning a gluten free diet. The Gluten Free Bible – An Insiders ...
Egalitarian Beliefs neuter gender differences?
2010-12-27 14:00:00 Example of Neuter Gender Differences One thing that tends to come up ever so often that I can never seem to wrap my head around is the concept about people wanting to 'neuter' gender differences. How is that possible - to neuter gender differences? It isn't as far as I know. By the time we are a young child we tend to realize the differences, and everyone acknowledges them for the rest of our lives. There is no way to 'neuter' this. I have to admit some complementarian views do make me giggle when they speak about egalitarians views of the human race. I realize it makes others upset, but to me its so ridiculous I find it rather humorous. You see, when people are truly committed and consistent egalitarians, they have to defend their denial of essential differences. In doing so, they will advocate a education system in the home, church, and society which neutralizes any assumption of differences between the sexes. In doing so, men will not be trained to b...
Gender Preferences
2010-09-30 13:16:00 Lately, a survey about gender computing preferences crossed my desk top. The survey cover a lot of areas from what men and women do differently when online. Machines can?t differentiate between...
By: Light Within
Gender Disappointment
2010-09-18 22:37:00 This was supposed to be an article about matching sister dresses.After navigating the capricious world of dating, accomplishing the feat of a happy marriage, overcoming the sometimes heart-wrenching process of creating a home and getting and staying pregnant with a healthy baby a person should be happy, right? But for some, a dark, unsettling doom comes in an unexpected form: Gender Disappointment.I'll admit I was fully expecting news of a boy to come of this pregnancy, probably because I grew up in a two-child home with a brother. I entertained the idea of a little man to dress up in jon-jons and christen with an animal hippy name but c'est la vie. The moment I found out our second baby...
Gender reveal party ideas! (Parties of two count.)
2010-09-03 04:10:00 Our big scary ultrasound was pushed back to October, so instead of sitting on my curiosity for five whole weeks I scheduled a little gender peep show at Golden View Ultrasound on Belmont for this afternoon. I'll get to that in a minute.When we were half way through our pregnancy with Bianca, we had a blow out of a party. The night before, I made two layer cakes, one with pink filling and one with blue. Then I frosted the outside identical yellow and created a little duckie head. (Recipe here.) At the appointment, I had the tech put the baby's gender in an envelope to be opened later by my sister-in-law at a big family BBQ. She read the note...
Gender Divide Still Divides Workplace
2010-08-31 20:20:00 By Dennis McCafferty on 2010-08-30 A much higher percentage of women than men feel that women don’t get equal pay for doing the exact same job ? a finding that is echoed by similar sentiments over promotions, flex-time benefits and even loans, according to a recent poll from Harris Interactive. There is also a notable difference ...
By: News for Greens
Gender Equality denies differences between male and female!
2010-08-13 22:19:00 I just finished Woman this is WAR! By Jocelyn Andersen author of another book called, Woman Submit! It was Chapter 20 called, Smokescreens, Mantras and Slogans that truly resonated with me today. I think that is because we see these parroted statements all the time, and yet there is no foundation to it. In fact if you truly stop to hear the statements, and not just take some ?organization? or ?authors? word for it? You can see and feel the twists and turns they take to make a point out of pretty much lies. Gender Equality denies differences between male and female! From the time we are born it doesn?t take your parents to point it out to you that there are indeed differences. I mean seriously? What a silly statement! There are intrinsic differences between the genders that would be impossible for anyone to change. You can deny it all you want to, but with most people if you do claim this? They are going to wonder about your sanity. CB...
Blue Gender: The Warrior (2002)
2010-07-10 05:00:00 Movie: Blue Gender: The Warrior (2002) “” Director: Koichi Ohata Release Date: 20 November 2002 (Japan) Run Time: Japan:90 min Country: Japan Genre: Animation , Adventure , Drama , Horror , Sci-Fi
Race, Gender and Imported Schwag: Day Two of Census Training
2010-04-13 23:39:00 Then again, at least the Haitians and Bangladeshis aren't expressly told by the census that their origin isn't deemed a race, as those of Hispanic origin are told. And at least they aren't being referred to with a term considered derogatory and outdated--i.e. negro--for identification purposes, as the African Americans are. Something that seems so "Sesame Street" simple (counting) sure is complicated
The New Gender on ChicagoNow Radio
2010-04-04 02:14:00 In case you missed it, The New Gender was featured on WGN's ChicagoNow Radio today.Check it out.Special thanks to Producer, Matt Mattucci and Host, Alex Quigley for a great segment....
Gender Preferences
2010-01-28 19:22:00 Lately, a survey about gender computing preferences crossed my desk top. The survey cover a lot of areas from what men and women do differently when online. Machines can?t differentiate between...
By: Light Within
Chaz Bono explains gender on Good Morning America
2009-11-21 19:00:00 Chaz Bono, who is 8 months into his transition was on Good Morning America earlier this week to explain gender to the country. I can't do a better job of explaining, so watch this video. ...
Are Caster Semenya gender test results to be believed?
2009-09-11 16:03:00 Today an Australian newspaper based in Sydney is claiming that they have intercepted the test results conducted on runner Caster Semenya.Semenya came under scrutiny last month when she broke the Women's 800m race at the World Athletics Championship in Berlin by almost a full second. Quickly after her win red flags were thrown and foul was called as people were making claims that Semenya was actually a man.The IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) conducted a series of medical and physical exams on Semenya to get to the bottom of the case and determine if she was really a he! Initial reports came back that Semenya had 3x the normal limit of testosterone in her system.Today the Australian newspaper claims that:...
Gender Biased
2009-09-08 05:35:00 I must confessed that I am someone that is gender biased. I have 2 girls and a boy, no doubt I love them equally, but I can’t deny that deep in me I am one who is gender biased. Way before I am even a mother, I can only visualize myself having daughters and how ...
Gender Binary Versus Gender Spectrum: Implications for Gay Rights
2009-08-26 15:26:00 The "T" in GLBT causes anxiety for some gays and lesbians, or so I've heard. It's not only that a minority seeking mainstream acceptance may feel tempted to push some of its more flamboyant members out of the spotlight. Trans-people demonstrate the fluidity of gender, which potentially threatens one common argument for gay civil rights. Conservative Christians tout the dubious successes of "ex-gay therapy" to alter sexual orientation. Since change is possible, they contend, there really is no such category as homosexuals, and therefore they should not be a protected class under the law. Understandably, gay activists point to scientific research and personal testimonies suggesting that same-sex attraction is biologically based, innate and mostly unalterable. From what I've read about the ex-gay movement, it seems that the evidence is not on their side. Most participants merely learn to avoid acting on their undiminished desire for the same sex, and to conform to current stereotype...
By: Reiter's Block
South African athletics boss quits over Semenya gender bender probe
2009-08-24 22:00:00 AP Photo: Anja Niedringhaus Caster Semenya has been in the news quite often over the last week since the IAAF has requested a "gender verification test." Semenya shattered the current 800m Womens race at the World Athletics Championships by almost a full second and since then has been under constant scrutiny to determine whether she is a man, a woman or something in between. Several ChicagoNow bloggers like Anna Pulley of Sex and the Windy City and Dennis Byrne over at Dennis Byrne's Barbershop have added to the conversation. Anna thinks that because Caster is so good, they're calling her sex into question while Dennis Byrne boils it all down to race. But now, with all of the questioning...
Caster Semenya Gender Controversy (Photos, Video)
2009-08-21 13:56:00 Athlete Caster Semenya is involved in controversy regarding her gender after winning the women’s 800m gold medal at the IAAF World Track and Field Championships in Berlin on Wednesday (August 19). IAAF has asked the South African athletics federation to conduct a gender test after her muscular physique and amazing performances sparked speculation that she is, ...
A/C: Chicago Week, Coetzee Reads, Gender Bias in the Theater
2009-08-13 16:00:00 Chicago Week, a collaboration between Gapers Block and Wall Blank is well underway. Each weekday this week, an interview with an artist and a corresponding print will be made available for one week through Wall Blank. 10% of the proceeds will benefit the Chicago Artists' Coalition. So far, featured artists include Dmitry Samarov, Sharon Parmet and Mark Hansen. Check A/C Thursday and Friday afternoon for features by David Schalliol and Clare Rosean, respectively.Elsewhere on ChicagoNow, Amy Guth is looking for local literary tweeters.Zach Dodson, one of the founders of featherproof books, interviews Amelia Gray, author of featherproof's latest title, AM/PM.Carl Giometti headed down to Millennium Park in order to review the Zaha Hadid and UNStudio's Ben van Berkel pavilions for the Burnham Centennial before the temporary closure of the van...
Gender Relations in Iran
2009-07-29 12:18:00 Often, it's hard for people in the United States to comprehend gender relations in comparatively socially conservative countries like the Islamic Republic. In turn, this leads to an overall confusing situation in which faulty accusations are made and realities are disregarded in place of elitist criticism and crucial misunderstandings.As simple as the following statement may seem, it's fundamental to understanding Iranian social structure: Iran and the United States are different. They have different histories, religious beliefs, cultures, and social structures. So trying to judge the two very different countries by the same standard is just wrong.What Iranians want is popular sovereignty and the right to live their lives without being told by the West that they are inferior and medieval...
Hetero Gender Identities Are Totally Queer
2009-07-16 20:54:00 What is the problem with hetero gender identities? Why do the majority of people in the world feel threatened by a ?man? in a skirt or a ?woman? in a suit? If I wear a tie (I would be labeled a ?woman? when defined through the binary) does this somehow offend you? Ok, maybe if I was wearing an orange tie with a purple shirt, that might be offensive, but who wants to clash anyway? So what the fak does it matter to you? read more
By: What the FAK
On gender difference & political correctness
2009-07-01 21:18:00 I’m ambivalent about gay marriage in part because, in studying the history of the institution, we learn it is defined by gender difference. Up until the 1990s, those cultures which have recognized same-sex unions either called them something different than marriage or, if they did call them marriage, required one partner to live in the ...
By: GayPatriot
Illinois' Abbott Laboratories sued for gender discrimination
2009-06-19 05:54:00 A longtime employee of a pharmaceutical company based out of north surburban Chicago is suing her company of 27 years, claiming she suffered gender discrimination and retaliation after she reported the discrimination. Olga Jasinsky alleges that her employer Abbott Laboratories did not promote her for 11 years, and that she "received significantly less pay than her similarly situated male colleagues."...
Is It A Boy Or A Girl? At-Home Test Predicts Gender
2009-06-10 20:33:00 Instead of waiting the traditional 16 to 20 weeks for a sonogram, a new test claims to let a woman know whether she is carrying a boy or a girl as early as 10 weeks after conception.
Thump and Pummel
2009-06-09 03:00:00 The other morning at summer camp, The Mayor greeted another boy with a chest thump.The two of them actually jumped into the air and bumped into each other, on purpose, chest first.This was a greeting.[Odd animals, these things called boys.]Similarly, we went away a few weekends ago with a family that we don't often see.They have a boy who is 18 months older than The Mayor and, though they've met before, this weekend was the longest they've ever spent together.They acquainted themselves with one another through a series of elaborate wrestling maneuvers, gut punches and general body thrashings.When they weren't doing bodily harm to one another they were shooting each other with guns fashioned from drinking straws, twigs, tinker toys -- anything they could find -- because despite my politically correct, Mom 2.0-ness...WE DO NOT PLAY WITH GUNS IN THIS FAMILY! GUNS ARE NOT TOYS!GUNS ARE DANGEROUS!...my child can and does pretend that anything he is holding is a gun.Through all their ...
By: Oh, The Joys
Sotomayor on Ethnicity & Gender
2009-05-27 21:55:00 Prodigal Son left this comment yesterday: Do you have a problem with the fact that she thinks Latina women make better judges that white men? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/-15/us/15judge.html I don?t have a problem with anything else that she has said (that I have heard), including the policy-making issue. But reverse discrimination kinda bugs me, because ...
By: BuffaloPundit
On gender difference & sexual attraction
2009-03-17 20:58:00 Yesterday, while working out, I posed a hypothetical to a straight friend of mine, asking if he’d rather be funny-looking, but a nice guy or handsome and unkind. He hesitate for a bit, then answered that he’d rather be funny-looking. I had asked the question after seeing this well-built guy walk by, a straight man who ...
By: GayPatriot
Gender-Related Issues in Russian-British Couples
2009-03-02 09:00:00 The equality that Russian women want, differs from that desired by Western women. Russian women see themselves as far more traditional in their dealings with men and their views on domestic life (Richmond 2003:59). As it was argued earlier in this work (see chapter 2.1.1), Russian women would prefer not to work if the economic ...
Intercultural Differences in Gender Roles
2009-03-01 09:00:00 Many issues in mate relationships are directly or indirectly concerned with gender imbalances. Gender roles have changed tremendously in the last thirty or forty years both in the United Kingdom and Russia. Both British and Russian societies have large numbers of two-earner families. In both countries, younger men are gradually becoming more involved in household ...
Family Finances And A Shifting Workforce Gender Balance
2009-02-17 20:19:00 News reports throughout the nation and the world are making note of a surprising trend in the American workforce. As economic difficulties deepen, it seems as though men are suffering the brunt of the layoffs, and if this trend continues, we could soon reach a historic tipping point, in which the number of women in ...
Division of Gender Roles in Russia
2009-02-06 09:00:00 Biological differences between men and women are beyond debate. Every society, culture, and individual translates them to practical differences in social roles or functions. Traditionally, these differences have existed with men generally being more assertive, dominant and the primary wage earner. Women have been perceived as more nurturing, caring, and primarily concerned with the family ...
Hair Color and Age
2008-11-24 20:00:00 The color of your hair, your age, and even your gender have an impact on how many hairs are on your head. These modifiers even have a say in the denseness, and rate of growth of your hair. For example male hair is more dense than female hair, and females hair grows slower than males. ...
By: Factsbuffet.com
Gender Analyzer
2008-11-19 15:52:00 If you have a blog, here's a fun website to try. Enter your web address and the Gender Analyzer will determine whether the author is a man or woman.According to the analyzer, they think that Sean's Ramblings is written by a man (74%). I figured the number would be much higher as I don't know of any woman who would wait over 5 hours to earn free burritos for a year!If the pregnant man had a blog, would the Gender Analyzer break?
By: Sean's Ramblings
Once again, on Gender Difference & Marriage
2008-11-18 02:06:00 One of the great difficulties of having a serious conversation on marriage with the great majority of gay marriage activists is their refusal to understand the significance of the social change they are proposing. Yes, a number of cultures throughout history have recognized same-sex unions, but such recognition has been the exception, not the norm. In ...
By: GayPatriot
The Spin Room: Gender, Politics and Media in the 2008 Election
2008-11-09 17:38:00 "Confirmed panelists include Arianna Huffington, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post; Geraldine Ferraro, former U.S. Representative and the first female Vice Presidential nominee; Marie Wilson, President, The White House Project; and Lesley Jane Seymour, Editor-in-Chief, More magazine. Moderated by Carol Jenkins, President, The Women's Media Center."New York Women in Communications, Inc.
By: weblogART
Sarah Palin Upsets Left?s Narrative on Gender, the Current Presidential Cam
2008-09-13 01:00:00 In the Hill yesterday, Byron York asked, “What is it about Sarah Palin that seems to have driven so many smart, thoughtful Obama supporters around the bend?“ He lists a number of the most outrageous things liberals have said about the Alaska Governor, including Wendy Doniger’s contention that Palin’s “greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that ...
By: GayPatriot
Gender differences seen in brain connections
2008-09-11 04:21:00 Human brains appear to come in at least two flavours: male and female. Now variations in the density of the synapses that connect neurons may help to explain differences in how men and women think. Even when intelligence levels are equal, women and men excel at different cognitive tasks. But although brain size and neuron density differ between the sexes, these don?t seem to correlate with cognitive differences. So, Javier DeFelipe at Complutense University in Madrid, Spain, and colleagues counted the number of synapses instead. The brain tissue they analysed came from the left temporal cortex, a region of the brain involved in emotional and social processing, of four women and four men with epilepsy. The tissue itself was healthy, having been removed to allow doctors to access underlying damaged areas.
Dwelling on Race, Gender & Sexual Orientation
2008-08-28 01:57:00 For as long as people have been criticizing Hillary Clinton, we’ve been hearing her supporters retort that the only reason we dislike the former First Lady is because we can’t stand (or fear) strong women. Which means that some of my friends, acquaintances and family members are self-haters. But, then, we gay Republicans know it’s ...
By: GayPatriot
SBC: Gender issues office engenders unease within us
2008-06-10 16:22:00 Within the Southern Baptist Convention, there is a centralized gender issues office whose sole purpose is to ?inform, educate and encourage our people to be proactive and redemptive in reaching out to those who struggle with unwanted same sex attractions.?...
By: Good As You
West Point Songs Go Gender Neutral
2008-06-05 17:29:00 Associated Press, June 5, 2008 - The U.S. Military Academy will now honor its daughters as well as its sons in two of its beloved songs. Gender-neutral lyrics were incorporated into West Point’s “Alma Mater” and “The Corps” - replacing lines like “The men of the Corps” with “The ranks of the Corps.” West Point ...
Tackling Africa's gender gap
2008-06-04 16:17:00 Top female and male leaders from across the continent launched an Africa Gender Parity Group at the 2008 World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town.
The Politics of Gender Identity Disorder
2008-06-03 14:00:00 Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is a clinical term referring to a persistent inability to accept one's own gender. Diagnostic criteria include: a persistent and strong cross-gender identification as well as a strong persistent discomfort about ones's assigned sex (gender dysphoria). While primarily diagnosed in children, cases of GID have also been identified in adolescents and adults. Intended as a diagnostic category to address problems experienced by transsexuals and transgendered patients, GID was first included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980.There is an active controversy concerning use of the GID diagnosis and many activists argue for its removal from the DSM. They maintain that the existence of the diagnosis stigmatizes transgendered people (and, by association, all sexual minorities) by identifying GID as a mental illness. Other transgender activists acknowledge the value of the GID diagnosis for patients seeking sexual reassign...
By: Providentia
The Politics of Gender Identity Disorder
2008-06-03 14:00:00 Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is a clinical term referring to a persistent inability to accept one's own gender. Diagnostic criteria include: a persistent and strong cross-gender identification as well as a strong persistent discomfort about ones's assigned sex (gender dysphoria). While primarily diagnosed in children, cases of GID have also been identified in adolescents and adults. Intended as a diagnostic category to address problems experienced by transsexuals and transgendered patients, GID was first included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980.There is an active controversy concerning use of the GID diagnosis and many activists argue for its removal from the DSM. They maintain that the existence of the diagnosis stigmatizes transgendered people (and, by association, all sexual minorities) by identifying GID as a mental illness. Other transgender activists acknowledge the value of the GID diagnosis for patients seeking sex...
By: Providentia
[Amusing] Seattle University squashes ?douchebag party?, citing gender bias
2008-06-03 04:54:00 (US News) |
|
 |
|
 |
