Archive for August, 2010

This was originally posted to my personal blog This post entitled Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men was making the rounds when I got back from camping yesterday. It’s a “just do ...

Shira Ovide over at the Wall Street Journal’s Venture Capital Dispatch wrote a blog post on Friday that’s got a few people in a tizzy over the visibility of women in tech. Ovide’s piece is ...

Oh noes, we’re due for an Open thread. But myself and my family are sick and stressed. What shall we do? I know, we shall copy-kitty a Hoyden About Town regular feature, and post some ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! People who consider themselves fully rational individuals are ignorant about basic psychology and their own minds. It is easy for white men in science, technology, engineering, and math ...

[Trigger warning: as you probably realized from the title, this post discusses the (overuse) of rape in fantasy settings] I’m going to start with saying that I thought the Penny Arcade comic was actually pretty ...

Alice Adams writes about What women want and how not to give it to them, which includes a list of things companies do that cause their attempts at hiring more women to be ineffective. Chantaal ...

[Trigger warning for discussion of sexual assault in games and comedy and sexual slavery] Wednesday’s Penny Arcade told this joke where a hero insisted on leaving a rape victim in his own personal hell. Why? ...