Gender roles
Sometimes I look at my role within my family based on the tasks I’ve taken on and see that it’s pretty traditional. For example, I do the cooking and the laundry, both tasks traditionally taken on by...
View ArticleWhy I didn’t finish reading Wikinomics
After Christmas, I took a bookstore giftcard and purchased a cookbook and Wikinomics. I started reading it and got to chapter 3, which is a fairly interesting discussion of how IBM came to embrace...
View ArticleOMG Miss America is so conservative
I got sucked into another reality show: Miss America Reality Check. In theory, the show is about changing Miss America contestants from glitzy, makeup-wearing airheads to something more representative...
View ArticleOn being a bad feminist
Bitch, Ph.D. wrote on Friday about feeling like a bad feminist because she’s doing the stay at home parent thing. Here she has a Ph.D., is perfectly intelligent and capable, but is choosing to do...
View ArticleThe Dongle Incident
So, there was yet another incident involving a woman at a tech conference enduring unpleasant comments that were insensitive. Sexist, some say. Crude, very likely, if indeed the word dongle was used in...
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