- Does anyone know if a new carnival owner was found for the Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans? There was a call for help up at Free to Good Home: The Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans
- Natania at Geeks Are Sexy posts Never assume anything about a geek girl debunking some common assumptions
- Women Women Blah Blah Blah: Tara Hunt is hearing that talk about gender balance at tech conferences is boring, and she agrees… but it’s also necessary.
- The Atheist Movement Ladies’ Auxiliary and Sewing Circle: Greta Christina hears that the atheism movement needs more women so as to be less confrontational… and proceeds to be confrontational.
- Nobel winners call for gender balance in science: Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider addressed gender balance in science while in Stockholm to accept their Nobel Prize.
- The Discovery Channel: “Not for Women’s Eyesâ€: The Discovery Channel is marketing itself as “Not for women’s eyes. Discovery Channel has television men want to watch. Exciting, smart, interesting, adventurous, and most of all real. Watch for yourself.”
- Revolution is knocking on the door. About FSCONS and feminism again: Christina Haralanova draws out similarities between the Free Software movement and women's movement.
- Prejudice vs. biology – testosterone makes people more selfish, but only if they think it does: female subjects given either testosterone or a placebo adhered to stereotypes… if they believed they’d been given testosterone.
- Is the mixing of personal and professional a creative class luxury?: Rachel Hills writes about being “free to be me” on the web: "As an editor, I can wear the same clothes to work as I do on the weekends, but a lawyer or an investment banker can’t do the same…"
- Feynman was not being arrogant when he told people, “You’re wrong!â€: More meritocracy discussion. Restructure! discusses research showing that when the topic is stereotypically feminine, men are tentative and women are confident. She also argue, in essence, that the merit-and-confidence/pushiness-ocracy is correct and desirable, and women need to be more uppity.
- (trigger warning) Glee: Mattress: meloukhia strongly critiques an episode of Glee that used domestic violence as a plot device to portray an abusive character as sympathetic.
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Fiction, Part 1: The first part of a series in which Arachne Jericho talks about portrayal of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in fiction: getting it right and getting it wrong.
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