BurningbirdThe importance of supporting diversity
Two things today: Jonathon posts an apology to Dorothea and Tish that I thought was well done. And both Tish and Dorothea deserved it. Sheila has much good to say about feminism and girlism. As does Suzanne in my comments to the posting “Looking Glass Self”. She writes: Okay, so I took some time to follow the thread a little and I have […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. New voices are entering the discussion on feminism and girlism. Brave souls. AKMA has joined the conversation, but carefully, aware that the discussion related to this topic has achieved a level of emotion and engagement that transcends previous topics: One reason I haven’t joined in earlier lies in my fondness for everyone […]
Commenting and cross-commenting associated with Mike Golby’s posting. Lots of words to get to core of the matter: Mike wants to discuss the issues without someone experiencing personal affront. He says that I am being defensive. I rant and rail and point and link until I slow down (hitting a wall does tend to slow you […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Mike Golby wrote a posting that asks several very complex questions, leading to one stated goal: he wants to understand why I (and Dorothea) fight these battles about sexism and gender bias and equality, such as the one about girlism this week. I’m not asking these questions because I have nothing […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In the comments attached to the Girlism post, an Assistant Professor of Computer Technology, Dr. Elizabeth Lane Lawley mentioned effort at Carnegie-Mellon to understand why there is such a large discrepancy based on gender in the computer sciences. I found a web site devote to this project and have been spending some time reading publications associated […]