- The OTW and the EFF released two public responses to the U.S. Copyright Office today. They’re related to the DMCA Anticircumvention Hearings earlier this year. This merits a whole post if someone wants to take it on.
- If you’re in Seattle, check out these free astrobiology lectures at the University of Washington, noted by Timmi Duchamp on Ambling Along the Aqueduct, the blog for Aqueduct Press.
- An awesome open letter to Glenn Beck by Verite Parlante from Whose Shoes Are These Anyway? Verite outlines how Beck is a public figure and that the site in question is clearly a satire.
- Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings, from Wired. Always do your multiple comparisons corrections to separate signal from noise!
- Holy Discontent, Batman!: Rosepixie reviews a clever vintage equal-pay advertisement featuring Batgirl.
- Gail Carmichael blogs about the first girl geek dinner in Ottawa.
- Carla Schroder has an editorial on sexism in FOSS over on Linux today, which lists off a bunch of real life stories of issues women have encountered in free/open source software communities. (Unsurprisingly, there’s some incredulity in the comment section.)
Tag Archives: subtle sexism
The Left Hand of Link Roundup (Sep 9th, 2009)
- Technology for “keeping kids safe” unsurprisingly sometimes serves a dual purpose, as Lauredhel points out: Your kids’ ’secure’ online chats being sold to marketers
- Pink Brain, Blue Brain: Claims of sex differences fall apart. Newsweek describes Lise Eliot’s book Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps—And What We Can Do About It, in which she reviews evidence that parents cause the differences in infant behaviour that some people claim is innate.
- Bitch magazine: Princess synergy: Disney’s acquisition of Marvel is good for boys, but what about girls?: “My concern is that the resulting products will continue to be two unfortunate sides of the same gendered coin: Good-Girly Princess and Oversexed Superheroine.”
- laughingrat on Impostors: “I wonder if, for instance, my college adviser would have been able to get away with pretending I was too stupid for graduate school–he said as much to me in a slightly gentled-up fashion–if I hadn’t myself learned to be so self-deprecating.”
- Azurelunatic on women-only spaces, being one of the boys, GRS, and the Vorkosiganverse.
- FemaleScienceProfessor asks people to start seeing micro-inequities, those little niggling incidents that are so easily written off as probably not sexist, just someone having a bad day, or being a jerk.
- Webcomic A Softer World takes on I don’t see gender, I just see people.
- Greta Christina discusses sexism and racism in the skeptical and atheist communities, and about how being white and male-dominated will perpetrate itself in unhelpful ways. There is some overlap between these communities and geekdom, so it isn’t surprising to hear that some of the defensiveness is similar.