Initial thoughts on “Blogumentary”
– The issue of a “filter bubble” or an “echo chamber” — if you shout into the void, who actually hears you other than other people shouting similar things? Influence is hard to measure. – Blogs as more realistic and more human than mainstream journalism, perhaps because it doesn’t pretend to be absolutely true or […]
Read more "Initial thoughts on “Blogumentary”"Why women leave tech: It’s the culture, not because ‘math is hard’
Important article about implicit biases and microaggressions that continue to perpetuate gender inequality in the workplace.
Read more "Why women leave tech: It’s the culture, not because ‘math is hard’"Student reported rape list at UChicago
This raises a lot of issues around rape and rape culture that are worth discussing. It is true that the student-distributed list is unofficial and therefore open to accusatory revenge-motivated public shaming, but the fact that students felt there was a need for it perhaps reflects a systemic failure in the institution to punish rapists. […]
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Originally posted on queeringmedia:
When I was little, I hated math. It was, by and large, my least favorite subject. While I didn’t realize what was going on at the time, I think that most of my frustration stemmed from the fact that every math teacher I had seemed to hold the belief that boys…
Masculinity and Asianness, re: UCSB shooting
The UC Santa Barbara shooting has gratefully faded from news coverage, but I’d like to consider it again in light of how we as a society tend to view shootings or acts of terrorism (notably the UCSB incident was never reported as “terrorism” but more often as “massacre”). A perhaps different perspective through the lens of […]
Read more "Masculinity and Asianness, re: UCSB shooting"Race and Casual Sexism in STEM
Two things I’ve been reflecting about vis à vis gender and race during my time at MIT. 1. As a Course 16 (aerospace engineering), my foremost impression of the department is one of whiteness. During rush, when I introduced myself to an upperclassman as being interested in aerospace engineering, his first question was “Are you […]
Read more "Race and Casual Sexism in STEM"Genderswapping Advertisements
BuzzFeed parodied three commercials by simply switching the genders of everyone in the video, with amusing results. The tropes explored and overturned are the submissive/man-pleasing girl, the geeky guy/attractive woman pairing, and the sexualization of food. Things to think about: In BuzzFeed’s genderswap, are the men sexualized in quite the same way as the original women in […]
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Fascinating work on the sorts of classifications and snap judgments we make about people based on everything from clothing to race to perceived class. “How I Rebuilt Tinder and Discovered the Shameful Secret of Attraction” by Anne Helen Petersen “But maybe what we call the argument of one’s genitals is, in truth, incredibly — and both […]
Read more "Race and Attraction on Tinder"Ferguson: Racism, Negrophobia, or both?
Stanford University junior Brandon Hill writes: “A few nights ago, I noticed a dark spot in my periphery. Suddenly it twitched. My stomach dropped. The dark spot was a five-inch spider, looking as if it had muscle and bone. There was no possible way I could sleep soundly until the behemoth was neutralized. I scrambled […]
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Overcoming Biases 