“We don’t occupy their imaginations the way they occupy ours.” Black scientist about his white colleagues (from the movie “Black Cake”) Yeah. Now imagine that ten-fold for a female scientist.
July 2026 archive
Jul 14 2026
from The First Political Order: How sex shapes governance and national security worldwide, Valerie M. Hudson et al.
Part I is a must-read. Excerpts follow. “Men seeking their own security attempt to construct strong male-bonded alliances, typically based on patrilineal (agnatic) relationships … [Women] biologically reproduce the group, providing brothers and sons for this male alliance. The fraternity’s dependence on women … leads to the necessity for men to control them.” p2 [This …
Jul 12 2026
from When the Moon Hits Your Eye, John Scalzi
“…as someone whose sexuality so far had expressed itself as ‘possibly asexual or maybe just unimpressed with the local talent’ …” p187 “Jody Bannon was worth, what, a couple hundred billion dollars? Think about how much money that is. He could have spent a million dollars a day, on anything, and it would still take …
Jul 07 2026
from Doughnut Economics: 7 ways to think lke a 21st century economist, Kate Raworth
too long to copy, but a great synopsis of neoliberal economics in the form of a stageplay with characters – p59-61 ditto, the alternative – p62-3 “How productive would your workforce be if it hadn’t been toilet trained?” Alvin Toffler p69 “if women were paid the going hourly rate for eac of their roles—switching between …
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