Not even remotely joking, my son, who is getting his degree in engineering personally witnessed a professor tell a female student that she was “too pretty to be an engineer”.

That makes no sense. You don’t induce empathy by making boys see girls as the competition (even equal competition). You induce empathy by raising boys to see girls as equally human and complex...which isn’t going to be solved by a science contest. Also, sexism is not just a problem with boys. Women also internalize…

Sadly, I realized that in pre-school and hated the fact that I was a girl.

*IF* the judging of the competition was done blind (that is, the judges did not see the competitors or the competitor’s name in relation to the project being judged, and did not know the gender of the competitors) - then I think this is fine. On an even playing field, women can win on the merits - NO PROBLEM. They…

Giles Corey is one of the more dramatic moments at the Salem Witch Museum. Badass.

The big ones I’ve heard from historians was that the Salem case was the daughters of the local church governance accusing people associated with the local goverment’s family right as the hard power of governments were eclipsing the soft power of norm-setting groups, so the whole thing was somewhat like how student…

They should really rename it 6 Dozen Moms. That would probably be more accurate.

Actually, what happened in Salem (actually what was then called Salem Village, now Danvers) is VERY relevant to what’s going on today. The histrionic claims of the teenage girls would have fizzled out with little damage if it weren’t for the damned minister (man, I hate that creep with the heat of a million suns) who…

I had a bit of an obsession with the Salem Witch Trials when I was in middle school after my sister left out an R.L. Stine book (the Fear Street Sagas) that was very loosely based on that time period (the book starts with a girl and her mother being burned at the stake). Morbid little me was fascinated and spent years…

I’ve read some books on the history of witch trials and some of the records show that accusations could be for really minor stuff. So and so looked at my cow and now its acting weird. So and so dumped out their bucket too close to my house and I’ve got a headache. Or I had a sex dream about So and So, she must be evil.

Yes! I live near Salem and this cognitive dissonance has always baffled me.

You point it out when you see it. Shut shit down when racist jokes get thrown around. Don’t tolerate racist attitudes. Educate yourself. Then educate others. You won’t be an expert, but you’ll know enough to try.

I’m sorry Evan. Nobody should have to deal with this.

I actually work at a local ABC/FOX affiliate. We hate seeing this stuff on the news. How do you become an ally without being obtuse? I’m dancing around the sentance “I’m white and have no idea how to help this situation” but there you are...

It kills me everytime I…

To borrow a phrase from my Irish grandmother, holy Mary, Joseph, and the sweet baby Jesus.

How very Christian of them to cut off food and shelter to mothers and babies. I remember something in the Bible about Jesus being in favor of that...

When I first read about the bill I thought, “huh. They’re going to include all of the independently wealthy women who get inseminated too?”

If old white Republicans spent as much time worrying about the environment as they do vaginas, we might actually move past that fact it was 60 degrees in NYC yesterday IN FEBRUARY.

But this is setting up the defense for that! If a baby isn’t legally a person then Republicans can’t feel bad for forcing it to be born and not providing any kind of assistance. How convenient.....

White people - what the ever loving fuck is wrong and why are so many white people losing their fucking minds right now? - Ex: Trump. Oh, and I love the ONE exception: artificial insemination.. because that’s almost exclusively white women who get that. Goddammit, is it Friday yet?