I think this is a really great point, and agreed, a too-oft overlooked one. But the feminist critique is about why is it [almost] always the mother who stays home instead of the father. The logic behind career = feminist is that feminists have had to fight tremendously hard to get careers, while men have always had…

Personally, I'm married to a wonderful STEM person, but that doesn't make me a devotee. I'm so offended at how our society grovels at the feet of the quadratic and acts like artists and teachers and historians aren't contributing to this society. Why don't we staple green cards to people who come here for those…

The H-1B program isn't stalling women out of STEM jobs, women are kept out of STEM jobs for a host of reasons that people fight over a lot. The point is that increasing H-1Bs for STEM jobs kind of results in creating a man-visa. Pramila Jayapal wrote a nice discussion of the gender imbalance in our immigration…

The TV show is considerably more sexist than the books. The books give much more thought-time to female characters, while the TV show swaps most of that for on-screen nudity time. Not that the books were some kind of feminist vision, but yes, the misogyny of the TV show is apalling.

Actually, most exonerated people are offered very little. Not even an apology, in most cases, or reparations, and certainly there's just no way to give you back years of your life. For some reason our society seems more willing to accept that injustice than to be "soft on crime." Perhaps because they don't expect…

Ugh, Hanna Rosin's article was basically a lot of reactionary railing against collective action or identity. Good for her that she doesn't find women's unity useful, she should go be a hermit and stop trying to undermine the people who are actually seeking change. The world is bigger than each individual, and the…

Ditto.

I think it is what Boehner is saying to women.

Best sentence of the day: Lil Poopy, the diminutive lyricist future classics professors will discourse at length on when teaching students about the decadence of the late North American Empire...

I was mostly single for a long time, because I'm picky and I wasn't interested in settling for something that wasn't great. Single life is great, so a boyfriend better be a fucking improvement, and many of them are not. Therefore, I usually took a pass.

I don't know much about business schools, but that does seem to be the drill. I guess DC is like one big business school, and the business is federal government, so there's not even diversity of enterprise.

Oh, that's awful. I hope you told him that you in turn were also disappointed to learn that he was such a shallow piece of trash!

Ha, so glad I ditched that place, but now when I describe it to the lovely nerdy schlubs up here in MA people think I'm being really hyperbolic. They have no idea.

Well, I really appreciate my male friends who educate themselves about feminism enough to identify and point out issues on their own. That certainly doesn't mean I think they know everything, but it builds a lot of trust.

As to your first point about at least a fair bit of responsibility being with the Academy, I agree. Actually I don't know anything about McFarlane but I'm willing to take everyone's word for it.

The best way not to be the target of that anger is to be an outspoken ally.

The first 3-5 names would be people I work with and know personally who aren't public figures or known outside their communities. No I've never heard of Lemkin or Laber. "Human rights" are very broad.

Because of that I never tell non-white people that they look like someone I know, even when they really do. It's maybe an overcorrection, but it's not the most interesting conversation to have anyway.

That made my day.

The studies are really unambiguous about the value of pre-school down the road - lower teen pregnancy, lower crime, better grades, better jobs, better wages. Obviously it doesn't roll out exactly that way for every person. But it's unquestionably an important investment that our government should be making, and a…