“Calling them a racist is sort of a way to end a legitimate and thoughtful discussion and that’s unfortunate.”

Since when does compassion mean “rampant lies on my campaign video, taking away working people’s weekends, doubling my state’s income inequality, and slashing university budgets by 250 million all while eliminating thousands of government jobs that require post graduate education” ?

I haven’t been to China but to lump me in with your friend is just rude. You don’t NEED to go somewhere to know a thing or two about it if you’re a curious person. It’s classist and gross to disparage someone for not having the luxury to travel the world.

No. No, this is not “squee.”

It is absolutely true, in my experience. It goes hand in hand with a “math and science are completely objective therefore I am too!” attitude. Here’s an anecdote. In the mid-90s, I worked on a grant that was designed to improve TA classroom teaching in STEM fields in order to address gender bias. During one workshop…

“Gadot, who starred in a couple of the male-dominated Fast and the Furious movies, said that she hasn’t faced much sexism”

I think it’s sad that Kathryn Winnick was left off of this panel. Her work as Lagertha on Vikings is maybe one of the best characterizations of a woman who kicks ass on TV right now. She’s a mother, a farmer, a strategist, and also a killer warrior—she manages to be all things, and she works hard for every one of…

I remember something a professor of mine said once about the more she learned the more she realized what she didn’t know. I try to take that attitude because I realize there is a lot of stuff I don’t know about. There are several ways of seeing things and finding answers. I can't assume my way is right.

THIS. Once, as I was literally sitting there working on my master’s thesis in biological anthropology, a guy who was an engineer, and who had never taken an anthropology course, asserted that men are “naturally” more ambitious and “naturally” breadwinners because of some bullshit evopsych nonsense. I said that wasn’t…

I once had a libertarian landlord with whom I got into a discussion about whether or not Government had ever done anything good. He said that anything the government did, private industry did better. When I pointed out that DARPA had invented the internet, that he worked with every day, his response was that the…

This is true among atheists/skeptics, too. Dawkins is of course the most high profile example, but the misogyny and the outright refusal to examine or admit it because they believe they are perfectly rational is depressingly common.

Oh totally I’ve seen this. Something about working with “rational” systems with provable rules makes people who work in STEM seem to, more often, believe that there is an easy rational answer to normal life, or that, as you say, their training makes them immune to subconscious bias.

Take a class in Japanese calligraphy. Really helps. And remember, it doesn’t have to be your own menstrual blood, so long as it’s obtained in accordance with the rites.

Couple that with cognitive dissonance and it can be a real shit show.

“We call it an embryo, not a baby because it’s an embryo. Not. A. Baby. Words mean things.”

I, on the other hand, not so much.

One time I was doing a show and some dude sitting in the front row kicked his feet up onto the edge of the stage like he was in a fucking la-z-boy. I am Patti Lupone and totally just kicked his feet off on my next pass downstage.

I am also a little appalled that the stupid’s stupid…

I’m a family law attorney, and my office has been up in arms about this all week.

Never forget.

There’s a moment in the trailer that I hope gets expanded upon, where a girl discusses not ever being able to talk about race at home because of how her parents will react. You learn to not ever talk about race, and then maybe your parents’ views start seeping into you. I’ve known people who grew up in environments…