Posts tagged ‘skepticism’

Do women and startups mix? Was Battlestar Galactica that good? Is dressing up in Leia’s slave costume empowering? All linkspammed today.

Black and WTF: photographs of suffragettes. In 1912, Scotland Yard detectives bought their first camera to covertly photograph suffragettes. A bit of an oldie, but relevant to our recent Google+ discussions: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ...

Warning for quoted misogyny, Islamophobia and descriptions of violence against women and harassment, not to mention Oppression Olympics. On June 20, Rebecca Watson of Skepchick posted a video discussing a panel she spoke on at ...

Counting Colored Cash: there’s plenty of successful media with central characters of color, there’s plenty of whitewashed/all-white media that flops. So why the myth that all-white/whitewashing is just good business? Trigger warning Resistance Is Useful: ...

Mystery and the Modern Woman: Tara Hunt writes about heterosexual dating, and men who are intimidated by heavy social networking “full disclosure” women. Closing the Venture Capital Gender Gap: Astia’s CEO, Sharon Vosmek, writes about ...

Anna’s What a crock post about Gamestop’s instructional training videos for how to treat female customers is worth a look Wired published an article critical of the anti-vaccination movement. Skepchick (trigger warning for quoted misogynist ...

Jennifer Ouellette at Twisted Physics blogs about people playing the Doctor Who theme on two Tesla coils Women 2.0 startup weekend creates 19 startups Alaya Dawn Johnson takes the creator of TV’s “Supernatural” to task ...