Objectify This

Hat tip to Sabotabby of Punkassblog for the scoop on this one: the Russian Government has released a statement officially limiting children’s toys that are “psychologically incongruous” (thus, threatening irony in the next generation of Russian childhoods) and stating that, as Sabotabby has it, “Apparently, the Russian government feels it necessary to fight the growing [...]

According to Pulitzer-Prize winning feminist, biologist and journalist Natalie Angier, biological anthropology started out as an attempt to make a ‘science’ out of  objectifying women (mainly by conflating culturally determined elements of attractiveness with the work of evolution). Such research incites dispute because it supports oppressive cultural standards of beauty with pseudoscience, and thus presents [...]

Another reason (here‘s the first) that I quit the biology major came from a lovely misogynist Professor of Biology. This man is not misguided; he is mistaken. He believes that women were born to be objectified. I’m not kidding. When I was a sophomore, I made some bank by TAing the introduction to evolutionary biology [...]

I found this article on broadsheet about Empathy. Catherine Price writes “Here’s something that sounds like a joke, but isn’t: the Empathy Belly. “It’s a pregnancy simulator designed to “enable men, women, teenage boys and girls to experience over 20 symptoms and effects of pregnancy.” (The Empathy Belly is not to be confused with the [...]

Last semester, I reluctantly acknowledged that I was not a biology major. I did this after I had long ceased taking classes in the biology department that were required for the major and didn’t pique my interest. I didn’t think of myself as a non-Bio major, but I didn’t think of myself as a non-non [...]

Homosexuality has come up in some odd places recently.  One of them is over at $3.60, where my attention was brought to a CBS special on a new strategy by the Federal Government to create a Gay Bomb which would release a chemical hormone that would make enemy combatants irresistably attractive to one another. For [...]

There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. -Albert Ellis (Ironic Curtsy: Irrational Woman) In her essay “Sexual Difference and the Problem of Essentialism,” Elizabeth Grosz writes of the problematic implication of “patriarchal frameworks, methods, and presumptions” in contemporary feminist theory and rhetoric.