BurningbirdThe importance of supporting diversity
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. David Weinberger wrote about turning down attendance at an event because the guest list ended up being all men. When I told the organizers why I wasn’t coming, they replied that they had invited three women who turned out to be unavailable. After our conversation they have invited some more women. But, […]
The first of the new Catholic Inquisitions is happening in St. Louis today. Many people in this community, and that includes many Catholics, have been saddened and disillusioned by this, the Church’s new witch hunt. Personally, I think this will hasten the end of the Catholic Church in modern times–all thanks to the appointment of a homophobic […]
Oh my: Would you rip files at a high or low bit-rate? Do you prefer AAC, WMA or MP3? If you are completely baffled by these questions, you are probably a woman. And the article goes down from there. I don’t like pink, I am not fond of round corners, can program a VCR — […]
One last gem for Friday, Slashdot writes on a soon to be released report from Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Ulster University that, well, read for yourself. From the Independent: Men are more likely to win Nobel prizes and achieve excellence simply because they are more intelligent than women, an outspoken male academic has claimed. Richard […]
But I don’t knit. I agree with Lauren. Sigh. Other good takes on the interview: Home Cooked: “What these comments consistently fail to do is explain why women’s activities have been forced to take place in the realm of the domestic, and how their talk has been dismissed as trivial compared with the seriousness of the […]