The Pointed Stick

the-unknown-friend:

from the Astronomicum Caesareum

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3dela:

thisgenderedlife:

thesexuneducated:

typingfrantically:

Let me talk to you about books.

Specifically, one book. This book.

This book should be a best seller. This book should be required reading for graduating from high school. Before you get that diploma, you read this book.

This book deals with debunking “Neurosexism,” which is a very fancy term for all of that evolutionary psychology bullshit that people spill about those “brain differences” between boys and girls.

This book debunks such myths as:

• Boys are better at math than girls
• Women make crappy lawyers/business CEOs/etc, as their brains are not cut out for aggression.
• Men make crappy counselors/primary school teachers/primary parents/etc, as their brains are not cut out for empathy.
• MEN ARE BUILT FOR GOING OUT AND HUNTING WHILE WOMEN ARE BUILT FOR STAYING HOME AND BABYMAKING IT’S NOT SEXISM IT’S JUST BIOLOGY
• And many other such myths.

Furthermore, this book covers topics such as: 

• Neurosexism and gender perceptions in multiple races (as this is not a singularly white experience, just as the western world isn’t a singularly white experience)
• Sex discrimination in the workplace, and how women are (or, more often, are not) allowed to behave
• How science is used (badly) to support many of these claims
• Experiences of trans* people, both through interviews and empirical studies.

AND FINALLY - It is all brilliantly researched, cited, compiled - and it’s easy to read! Cordelia Fine actually manages to be funny while writing this, which I think is important, because it makes all of this information infinitely accessible.

Delusions of Gender has reinforced what Oberlin taught me: The gender binary is stupid and arbitrary, and dangerous. And it is a self-perpetuating bias that needs to be addressed to be overcome.

Summer Reading! 

Someone buy me this book???

I am adding this to my summer reading list…I hope it is available on Kindle :D

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nicollemaroulis:

I’ve gotten one of these before. So dope.

Awesome.

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nerdydyke:

face—the—strange:

stfuhypocrisy:

rationalthinker:

UK Politician tweets about Christianity

pwned.

Oh snap!

milkfloat:

Moebius

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agrand:

Finally finished and sick of it.

fuckyeahlesbians:

[Image: Photo of a woman in a bikini top at a protest march, her back towards the camera, showing off her tattoos of multicoloured butterflies. Text to her side reads, “No fairy should be ashamed of its wings.”]

Butterfiles and Signs (by Alix King)