Posts in: Race, Gender & Identity
- How to tell when a woman wants you
- Sometimes I love attention from men. But when it’s respectful and when I clearly indicate that I want it. Guys, here is how you tell if a girl is interested: if she makes direct eye contact with you, smiles, and asks you questions, then she probably wouldn’t mind getting to know you. (If you’re British [...] [21 Aug 2010]
- How exclusion happens
- Now, I’m privileged enough to have a lot of access, but just a few years ago, I certainly didn’t have a social network that connected to Silicon Valley venture capitalists, despite having a relatively large network. And I still don’t know the first thing about sports, so a sports analogy only emphasizes that I’m not [...] [17 Aug 2010]
- On marriage and gender
- A law against spousal rape. A law against spousal murder. A paycheck of her own. And egalitarian marriage. Once women got political power, they insisted on being protected by the ordinary privileges of citizens of a modern democratic society rather than a husband fenced in by the medieval kind of marriage to which Douthat and [...] [10 Aug 2010]
- On blacks in Mexico
- American anthropology professor Bobby Vaughn, who runs the website Afro Mexico, says research shows that Afro-Mexicans outnumbered those of European descent up until 1810 and by a factor of roughly 2:1 until the 1700s. From Mexico’s lost culture on Global Post. [10 Aug 2010]
- How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer science? Hint: it doesn’t.
- How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer science? Hint: it doesn't. View more presentations from Terri Oda. [27 Jul 2010]
- On code-cowboys and developers
- I believe CS and Web Development currently select for certain masculine qualities that are largely unrelated to someone’s prowess as a coder. I believe it is these tangential code-cowboy qualities women are unable or unwilling to emulate, and not their skill or capacity for abstraction, problem solving, creative thinking, or communication — All of which [...] [27 Jul 2010]
- On blacks and gays and gals in New Orleans
- Big Freedia and Galactic at the Fillmore from Big Freedia on Vimeo. As far back as the ’40s and ’50s, it was a really popular thing. Gay performers have been celebrated forever in New Orleans black culture. Not to mention that in New Orleans there’s the tradition of masking, mummers, carnival, all the weird identity [...] [24 Jul 2010]
- On race and class
- I’ve avoided the temptation to say that, in the United States, poverty is white. It’s true, however, that there are twice as many poor whites as there are poor blacks. While a larger percentage of the African-American population lives in poverty, the sheer number of poor whites — 24.1 million — overwhelms the number of poor blacks — 12.1 million. (Interestingly, there are also more poor [...] [16 Jul 2010]
- On parenting
- A few generations ago, people weren’t stopping to contemplate whether having a child would make them happy. Having children was simply what you did. And we are lucky, today, to have choices about these matters. But the abundance of choices — whether to have kids, when, how many —may be one of the reasons parents [...] [9 Jul 2010]
- Le Scandal de Football
- During the 1990s, it was only the French extreme right that ridiculed the idea that multiracial sport could facilitate racial integration in France. Now the derision directed against the indiscipline of a “black” team and the implicit failure of sport’s integrative role in French society rains down from across the political spectrum. From Le Scandal [...] [2 Jul 2010]