When people say “gender is a social construct” they mean “gender roles are a social construct.” The idea that women should stay home and watch the kids and serve their husband is a social construct.

And this is why I left academia for tech. I discovered I made more than my advisor who was chair of the department with the job I’d picked up to help pay my way through school. My advisor who had a PHD from Yale. And was tenured. Then I found out the adjuncts who taught many of my classes made less than I did with a…

Every single student who applies to a PhD program needs to be given a hard lecture about their chances of making anything out of it. This system is designed for each and every one of them to fail, then make themselves feel inadequate for doing so. Higher education is an abusive spouse in a country club with everyone…

I tell all of my advisees to work after college for at least 3 years, preferably 5 or more.

Seriously, either unionize of quit the profession.

There is NOTHING stopping universities/colleges from paying adjuncts more than they do.

ABSOLUTELY and it’s been reported right here https://jezebel.com/fathers-and-childless-women-in-academia-are-3x-more-lik-1758704068

The show’s an okay idea, but that pun’s top notch.

Here’s to hoping Dale follows in the footsteps of his distant cousin Chris and pitches ABC on a sting show where he arranges to meet white supremacists and nationalists he meets online...

I served in the military during the Vietnam war, and my foot hurt too, but I served anyway.

Unfortunately all of our white grandparents aren’t like him.

It’s how I win Gran Turismo races, so it must be legit :)

That’s the best passing spot in Gran Tourismo! Just ram the other car straight into the wall and at the same time your car will bounce back just ready for the turn.

Huh. I ended up hanging out with a bunch of the Corvette Racing (and Continental Tire) folks Friday night; we were staying at the same hotel in Monterey (well, Seaside). Nice folks, mostly. I had no idea there were races happening until I pulled into the Embassy Suites parking lot and saw a gazillion Vettes and a…

When people ask me when I’d go back to (and I’m a white European woman) I’m like, ‘errr... 1997 was quite nice, maybe?’. Because being a woman before around 1990 pretty much sucked compared to how things are even now.

Hell, even if there was somewhere that wasn’t racist, you’d just get dysentery. Time travel is definitely overrated. I’d go back about a decade and sell before the 2008 crash and that’s IT. Okay maybe I’d take a list of Superbowl winners too.

I’d say make it two taps. Once for “suspend” (or whatever you want to call the current pseudo-off) and a second time for “off”.

It’s a bit complicated. He did free his slaves, he did teach freed slaves, and he worked pro bono for slaves attempting to gain freedom in court. He was also highly critical of slavery as an institution in public. But, it’s important to note that he was also anti-abolitionist, and rejected the idea of freeing slaves…

I’m gonna be so salty when time travel is finally invented and I can’t go anywhere.