:) are you seeing any changes? I was wondering since the internet is playing imo a bigger and bigger role also in transporting socially critical views and since feminism lately has become sort of "trendy" in some bigger parts of the online community

not your "honey". what's your point?

Don't be arrogant, I did "travel around europe" probably more than you have, I was just pointing out that not every uni in europe is as diverse as maybe in the US - which is imo a bad thing (that there is little diversity here) so who are you even attacking?

I do hang out with progressive people which are my friends here. My boyfriend was from romania though, and although many women are in STEM/Tech, the culture is extremely patriarchal - and at least the women I met which were progressive when it came to other topics than sexism were not really sensitive to sexism -…

Switzerland, in the middle, not poor..

Are you from the region? I hope I don't come across as disliking people from the region (which would be silly since generalizing anyway), but I have been with an eastern european for 2 years ..and in this time I have seen things I never thought of possible ever. Like the worst sexist jokes are considered normal and no…

forget it. I have never ever come accross a eastern european woman who did even endorse feminism a little bit. Don't say there are none, but the general culture is like here in the 50's

Also, since some time we have eastern european students in our department - and I have never ever experienced such an amount of sexism. Women are called "d*cksuckers", men who don't behave as they approve "pussies", "gay"..but the worst thing is no one ever except me speaks up, and when I do their answer is basically…

studying here in europe I never had a non-white co-student...never, ever.

Sort of (pleasantly) surprised that Jezebel puts up a critical article and does not defend it as "empowering" by blurring the line between empowered sexualization and objectification of women and the reduction of our value to our bodies.

omg I'm shocked..the first time I saw that I did not realize that this is actually about one of my (formerly) favorite interviewers...I remember quite some good interviews with female artists..how horrible..and how deceiving people can be...hui..

No I'm glad to be reminded that some people are just not very bright, it brings things into perspective. Ps, Im a neuroscientist, but good try with the binary sexed pseudoscience

geezes christ...do you really believe what you are saying? guess just trolling? yeah everyone only sees 1 commercial ever, its not that we are constantly bombarded with such imagery with very clear and stereotyped gender roles. Please go and educate yourself

so wrong because commercials have an enormous effect on shared ideals, stereotypes, expectations etc. and hence do affect things as how much people would pay an employe with the same qualifications depending on which sex the employe has (which was shown ca 2 years ago in a double blind study where just the male name…

You know, the sad thing is, that he is not alone with this view. If he would be, we could just ignore him as some idiot, but the truth is that many, many people share his view - conscious or unconscious.

No it's not. The only thing which is giving feminism a bad name is ignorant conservative people. "Don't give women a bad name " - sorry that line was already used when women fighting for suffrage. It was never feminists, if someone really cares about equality and about feminism, he or she is not just put off by one or…

me too, and it is actually often used as one of the prime examples why women left more and more computing to men: the consoles were just advertised directed at men, which lead to women/girls having less access to computing at home etc. see one of the articles here (didnt find it, got to scroll down but it is there): h…

This whole turkey killing thing remembers me of a book I can highly recommend which is called "the sexual politics of meat" - a study of the intersection of how we treat animal and how we treat women...

It's the story of every woman's life. It's unbelievable how our behavior is policed. Lately I got into an argument with a sexist a***, who played out the "I am more dominant/assertive - you are just a silly little woman" against me - and there was basically no way I could react to gain back my ground - even I would…

If only discussing things would be enough, I guess there would be no cheating, no lying...