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The Rape Index: Statistics Speak for Themselves

In the words of Harper’s Magazine editor Roger Hodge, the magazine’s monthly Index is “a statistical poem.” He presumeably meant that it allows the reader to experience it and come to his or her own conclusions. Today, instead of explaining a position, I offer a ‘statistical poem’ about rape. Each statistic is preceeded by the [...]

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: Notes on Gender Inequality, Part 1

The New York Times recently published an item about economic gender inequality that’s quite appalling. The report states that “nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job.” It continues, [...]

Um, Cum Again? I'm a Frayed Knot: Polyhedral Shapes in Sex

I’m still in the process of cleaning out my room after college. Bear with me — I know I graduated (ahem) more than two weeks ago, but I also am doing a deeper cleaning than I’ve done in my room since, well, I was about eight, apparently. I recently came across a Valentine that local [...]

Equality: Not Satanism, Last I Checked

Recently I stumbled upon this website run by that beacon of truth and goodness, the Christian Right. In fine form, they announced at the beginning of the page, “FEMINISM IS EVIL! Beware of the feminists, many are LESBIANS!” Ah, yes, such tolerance and open mindedness is exactly what we have been taught to expect from [...]