The Steubenville Case, a microcosm for a culture wide problem
…that those alleged sexual assaults are equivalent to ‘forcible rape’. There is always a justification, always an excuse for why it was understandable for that man to force that woman…
Code of Conduct Reading List
…the weaknesses of whisper networks and allowing victims to direct our responses to harassment. My Theory of Codes of Conduct https://the-orbit.net/almostdiamonds/2015/12/07/my-theory-of-codes-of-conduct/ The premises behind work on codes of conduct. (Snarky…
Carli’s Story of Survival (Aurora Shooting)
…for me and helps me deal with it all: I was saved by natural selection, and tear gas. That’s right- tear gas. I guess I’ll start my story by boring…
About Thought Experiments
…flawed results can become highly influential, especially when they reaffirm already held erroneous beliefs. Descartes’ rationalist (in the counter-empirical, all-knowledge-comes-from-reason sense[3]) thought experiments stuck the world with Cartesian dualism[4], an…
Bias Against Feminists
… I want to briefly describe one study to illustrate (Roy et al., 2009). In this study, people read a brief description about a woman who was not chosen for…
Your Point of View is not the Default. Context Matters.
…you don’t think that the residential real estate attorney should be paramount in a legal employment concern? The employment attorney’s opinion, viewpoint, knowledge, and experience should be paramount with the…
Opportunity and Access in the Freethought Movement
…with the same preferences and equal formal rights, the disproportionate exercise of these rights by men erodes the political and civic standing of women, a group not yet equal in…
Atheist Women Leaders Surprisingly Not Hard to Find
…because sexism is so obviously “irrational”! It’s not rationalism per se, but the uses of rationalism which have often been no friend to women. Rational people do irrational things all…
“We only have one chance to get it right:” an interview with Fallon Fox
…weapons of hand-to-hand destruction in female form. They had what men were allowed to have––what I would have been socially allowed to pursue when I lived in male bodily form….
New Atheist Charity Provides Secular Avenue to Safety, Stability, and Autonomy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Noelle George 323.723.3069, secularavenue@gmail.com New Atheist Charity Provides Secular Avenue to Safety, Stability, and Autonomy Initial focus on those unsafe at home January 20, 2015 –…