The always-amazing blog Geek Feminism has a series called "Wednesday Geek Woman," where they solicit guest posts about women, past or present, who represent excellence and passionate devotion in their field of interest. For the most part, the series has focused on women in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and math), fields that are notoriously hostile to women and...[ read more ]
Or, everything you always wanted to know about drinking but the LA Times won't tell you! So, I spent several years teaching alcohol education and harm reduction at one of the top "party schools" in the US. While my program's primary goal was to reduce problem drinking among students, our harm reduction focus meant that anything that reduced alcohol's negative...[ read more ]
1) This little girl is complaining about the very thing I was getting out in Bad Santa Part II: gender policing. Yay for her supportive dad! 2) Feminists and family therapists take note: Sick [heterosexually-married] men get support from their wives. Sick [heterosexually-married] women get... divorced. (Gay people don't exist, and single people die in a ditch, I guess.) 3)...[ read more ]
Yesterday I started in on ruining Christmas for everyone, or at least Jimmy Kimmel and some of his fans, by pointing out that his "Give your kids a terrible present and film it" challenge was... not actually that funny, when you realize that the humor goes way over the heads of most of the kids being filmed, and probably made...[ read more ]
So, as I recently Tweeted about, comedian Jimmy Kimmel has been asking viewers to play pranks on their kids and record the results. For Halloween, he encouraged people to tell their kids they ate all the Halloween candy. The results are fairly predictable - the kids are shocked, disbelieving, angry, tearful. The Huffington Post called it "hilarious," and said "Yes,...[ read more ]
