Seriously, do people really think our brains are the same? Wow. Stephen Pinker tells it like it is: From The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker: “Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology. Gender feminism is an empirical doctrine committed to three…
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A VERY interesting comment from the bottom of this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/the-great-american-gender-debates-of-2013/282419/ Mortarmouth Let’s see… gay marriage, women, women, women, women, women, women. Ad nauseum. All I see in most of these debates is a lot of bitching and moaning predicated on dubous feminist doctrine as to what’s “good for women”. Leaning in? Great! Opting out?…
Read moreThe Great American Gender Debates of 2013
A VERY interesting comment from the bottom of this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/the-great-american-gender-debates-of-2013/282419/ Mortarmouth Let’s see… gay marriage, women, women, women, women, women, women. Ad nauseum. All I see in most of these debates is a lot of bitching and moaning predicated on dubous feminist doctrine as to what’s “good for women”. Leaning in? Great! Opting…
Read moreStop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School
More news that points out the obvious. by Jessica Lahey – The Atlantic Magazine Something is rotten in the state of boys’ education, and I can’t help but suspect that the pattern I have seen in my classroom may have something to do with a collective failure to adequately educate boys. The statistics are grim….
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