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Feminist Frequency and the Truth About Video Games

Since 2013, the Feminist Frequency series Tropes vs Women has been an important voice in examining and reshaping how female characters are portrayed in video games. Featuring executive director Anita…

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10 min

Culture & Media

The Task Facing Masculinity.

“I think everyone would agree the world would be a better place if we had less testosterone.” My friend shared this quote with me in bemusement after he heard it…

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7 min

Culture & Media

Time to Call a Truce in the Gender Wars

Posted on November 5, 2017December 30, 2017
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byAR Devine

If you are a news and current affairs junkie like myself, you could quickly come to the conclusion that men and women are at war with each other across the…

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4 min

Culture & Media

Is Cordelia Fine’s Award from the Royal Society an Escalation of the Culture Wars?

Posted on September 23, 2017September 24, 2017
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byAndrew Sabisky

One occasionally hears it said, generally by intelligent people who have turned their brains off for a moment, that science and politics don’t mix, and shouldn’t. This is of course…

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6 min

Politics

In Defense of the Google Manifesto

James Damore, the Google employee who wrote the viral Google manifesto, was fired yesterday for “perpetuating gender stereotypes.” From the various reactions I’ve read, you would think Damore wrote the next…

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9 min

Culture & Media

If Gifted Children Exist, Does a Meritocracy Still Make Sense?

Posted on August 2, 2017September 8, 2017
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byJonathan Gleadell

The lamentable and dangerous myth persists that there is no such thing as innate talent or a gifted child. Whilst we might concede that if you are not born with…

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21 min

Science & Tech

Sex and Gender Are Dials (Not Switches)

Posted on August 1, 2017September 8, 2017
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byDavid P. Schmitt

It has become more and more common for young people around the world to describe themselves not as a “man” or a “woman,” but as “something else.” One term for…

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3 min

Science & Tech

What Science Has to Say About Gender Identity

Posted on July 29, 2017September 8, 2017
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byGregory Hickok

A few days ago, President Trump announced that transgender individuals would not be allowed to serve in the U.S. Military. This follows a previous Trump reversal of guidelines put in place by President…

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Gender Trouble: Gender Feminism and the Blank Slate

Posted on March 16, 2017September 9, 2017
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byMalhar Mali

“There is no reason to assume that gender also ought to remain as two. The presumption of a binary gender system implicitly retains the belief in a mimetic relation of…

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Gender

Feminist Frequency and the Truth About Video Games

The Task Facing Masculinity.

Time to Call a Truce in the Gender Wars

Is Cordelia Fine’s Award from the Royal Society an Escalation of the Culture Wars?

In Defense of the Google Manifesto

If Gifted Children Exist, Does a Meritocracy Still Make Sense?

Sex and Gender Are Dials (Not Switches)

What Science Has to Say About Gender Identity

Gender Trouble: Gender Feminism and the Blank Slate

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