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Feminism versus bad science: In October, Maria cited this as “bad science” in a link roundup: Professor Stuart Brody concludes that unprotected heterosexual sex can significantly boost men and women’s mental wellbeing. Conversely, Mr Brody claims that heterosexual sex with a condom is associated with poorer mental health, problems with dealing with stress and even conditions such as depression. A couple of commenters quickly stated that the article hadn’t explained Brody’s methodology enough (and couldn’t be trusted to report accurately) to support ... READ MORE

A Thursday Interruption: Tamara Wellons, Jenny Owen Youngs, and a Single Ladies Devastation: I heard Tamara Wellons perform this cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” at a performance of Gesel Mason’s Women, Sex, Desire: Sometimes You Feel Like a Ho, Sometimes You Don’t. Their goal was to take a song detailing Kurt Cobain’s anxieties about fame and use it to examine women’s relationships to their sexuality. Poke around the show’s site! This cover of “It’s Getting Hot in Herre” features an abominable snow monster. That’s…. really all I needed to see. <3 The ... READ MORE

Pathological misogynist on a mission to explain how stupid women are: A remarkably lengthy comment recently failed to make it through moderation here at Hathor. I thought it might be fun to post it here and take it apart, but as I was researching some of its “points” I discovered – it’s already all over the web. Rather than post the content here and give him the attention I suspect he craves, I’ll just link to it in a forum. Note how he gets ignored, because he’s bizarre and lecturing – not ... READ MORE

Gender bias derails a conversation on organization: Unclutterer is a popular blog for people looking to de-clutter their homes, schedules, possession and lives in general. It covers topics ranging from housework to making technology work for you on the job. Imagine my surprise when a recent post gave me fodder for an article. In Gender stereotypes and uncluttering, Erin talks about: In the comments to last week’s post “10 more uncluttering things to do every day,” a few readers were upset because they believed the list ... READ MORE

Introducing What Privilege?: In 2006, I found I had some things to say about privilege that didn’t quite fit on Hathor, so I started another website for that discussion. At that time, I was still just discovering many of my own privileges, so I didn’t publicize the site or prominently link it to Hathor. What if I said something that, upon reflection, was so intensely privileged that it wrecked my reputation and took Hathor down with me? It turns out that’s a lot more ... READ MORE

Down syndrome is Fox’s idea of a good joke: By now you’ve probably heard that the Fox animated sitcom, “The Family Guy” recently made a really mean joke about Sarah Palin. But that’s a highly selective take. The entire episode is really about how amusing Down syndrome is and how even women with Down syndrome are just high-maintenance bitches like all other women. (Oooh, almost a win there, with the suggestion that someone with Down syndrome might have a personality of her own just like everyone else, except they ... READ MORE

Gender segregating public schools does not work: There’s a move afoot to gender segregate public schools in the United States. Actually, it’s already started. No, you read that right: In 2002, only 11 public schools in the United States had gender-segregated classrooms. As of December 2009, there were more than 550. The movement is based on the hypothesis that hard-wired differences in the ways that male and female brains develop and function in childhood through adolescence require classrooms in which boys and girls are not only separated by gender, ... READ MORE

You can live on $40k, as long as you have a wife-servant: CNN interviews this dude who’s written a book called “How to Survive (and Perhaps Thrive) on a Teacher’s Salary.” I’m sure he may have some good tips for living on $39,900 a year, as he claims, but that’s not what he’s doing. The interview begins by explaining that he’s a teacher with a wife who stays home with the kids. They pitch this as if it’s a luxury his wife gets to enjoy because they’re so smart with his income. But ... READ MORE

Child molestation – it’s the modern thing to do: We get our fair share of troll comments. They usually call us names and accuse us of taking positions we’re firmly against. Most of them are just drones of low intelligence on autopilot. But once in a while, we get one like this, and it makes me pause and go “whoa” before hitting the “spam” button: You seem incredibly biased against liberal and modern thinking, and the way things are moving to these days. Kids are becoming mature far earlier than they ... READ MORE

Music that’s better than Katy Perry: Originally I was going to do a bunch of album reviews, but I’ve been too busy listening (and rocking out!) to my Christmas gifts to blog about how totally sweet they are. Here’s a bit of what my friends got me. It’s MUCH better than Katy Perry, thought I guess that wouldn’t be hard. Lily Allen might be a closet feminist — “The Fear” and “22″ provide some great social commentary on women and desirability. I especially like Anjulie – she makes ... READ MORE