Tag Archives: gender issues

Gender and the census part 2

Posted on March 9, 2013 by

Others have posted on the 2013 Census gender issue.  Read them! Atheist Pinko Sluts Monthly notes the actual, stated reason why “male” is listed above “female”: because people get too confused if “female” is listed first.  What does that tell … Continue reading →

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Gender and the census

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

Question 25 of the 2013 New Zealand Census asks: Are you: male female Spot the problem. In response to queries on the topic, the very-helpful 2013 Census Twitter account @2013Census has said: We just ask that people mark the response that … Continue reading →

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Oh, aren’t you clever?

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

Recently, in two different spheres, I’ve seen the delightful little appropriation of social justice comments best summed up as: But you keep saying gender and race shouldn’t matter, so you’re a hypocrite for promoting diversity!!! How convenient. The two spheres … Continue reading →

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Monday warm fuzzies: cosplay edition

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

And with the simple utterance of “cosplay”, I lose half my readership, but probably gain aaaaaaaaaaall the bumps to my Googleability. One day, Chaka Cumberbatch started the first big cosplay race war by having the gall to cosplay as Sailor … Continue reading →

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Marriage equality and the “protecting existing religious freedoms” derail

Posted on June 4, 2012 by

Louisa Wall’s Private Member’s Bill on marriage equality is now out – huzzah!  Check out the link to NRT for the pdf. However, before it came out, I was a little concerned about this statement, also reported at NRT, from … Continue reading →

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More on cigarette packaging

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

NRT continues to support the “plain packaging” of tobacco products, a subject on which he and I disagree. To [the tobacco industry], packaging is simply a means of circumventing advertising restrictions and of marketing to people they shouldn’t be marketing … Continue reading →

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Maybe he was PMSing

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

Alasdair Thompson, creepy bullying sexist pig extraordinaire, has lost in his (and his wife’s!) complaint against the Broadcasting Standards Authority.  A complaint which basically reads “how dare you quote my exact sexist words, you’re making me look sexist!” The lack-of-self-awareness … Continue reading →

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And this goes for you geeks, too

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

blue milk and tigtog have beaten me to it – so if a third recommendation is required, consider this mine for this post at Skepchick and this addendum by Kate Harding. … it’s the consequence of a sexist culture, in … Continue reading →

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Women react predictably to mainstream social cues: must mean we evolved to be bitches

Posted on December 6, 2011 by

Yeeeeeeeeah. The results were depressingly predictable. “Participants displayed a strong negative reaction to the attractive female when she was dressed provocatively,” said study author Dr Aanchal Sharma. … This research provides support for the innate roots of female conflict. How?  … Continue reading →

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If only our silly feminine intuition counted as “proof”

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

No Right Turn has the skinny on what happens when you call National’s bluff on the gender pay gap: … in order to get evidence that a gender pay gap exists, you need evidence that a gender pay gap exists. … Continue reading →

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