gender issues

Well, I know I'm putting myself out there for criticism here, but I first came to this site pondering balancing skepticism and faith, so that shouldn't be anything new :) I hope those of you I have interacted with here before will appreciate my efforts to be open and genuine and to listen to...

Taking this post from the Gender thread to avoid derailing it.... So in this post ten attributes are shown, and the poster seems to believe that these things are important to being a man. I just want to look a little closer and see if they are, or if they can be an issue. Stoicism (The...

The basic idea of 'Bad PR', a term created by Michael Marshal of the Merseyside skeptics is the use of numbers generated by poorly controlled/run studies to generate headline grabbing attention that is then used to publicize the organization named in the article. A classic example is...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/01/22/oxford-university-gives-women-time-pass-exams/ One would have thought that a prestigious university like Oxford would have done research before insulting women with their condescending "can't compete with men" policy change. But no, political...

You may have heard the recent news that the Boy Scouts will now start allowing girls to join. Earlier this year they had decided to start allowing transgender boys to join. The Girl Scouts did that a few years ago, around 2015 I think. It seems like a logical decision to me: instead of getting...

In a story published last Wednesday the New York Times included a new honorific, Mx. ["mix"], in a story that quoted one Senia Hardwick, a bookshop employee who didn’t want to be assigned a gender by the newspaper. Link. The Washington Post has decided to permit employees to use 'they' to refer...

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/29/nils-pickert-german-dad_n_1840290.html

What do you think of this article? 7 Ways You're Hurting Your Daughter's Future The 7 ways are: Are these things really harmful to girls? I'm not sure they necessarily are. I'll grant the "to the exclusion of everything else" part of 3, but that's sort of a given for any quality a child...

Link [/b]In other news: In response to the President's plunging poll numbers on his dealing with the Iraq War, the Bush administration has recently announced that all men not supporting the Iraq War effort are fairies. :D