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Ann Bartow of Feminist Law Professors asks, "What If They Had 'A Culture War Around Sex,' But Nobody Came?"
It defies quotation but suffice to say she begins her piece by citing an article on sex and feminism at The Village Voice by Rachel Kramer Bussel, and takes it from there. Bartow references a few feminist blogs in her piece as well—pop over and have a read.
Dr. Violet Socks at Reclusive Leftist blogs about an article from The Washington Post that quotes Ben Barres, a neurobiologist who underwent a sex-change operation, and who has "published a highly personal critique of the Larry Summers school of essentialism, which claims that differences between the careers of male and female scientists are due to innate differences between male and female brains."
Dr. Socks goes on:
"Of course, women in the academy (and in the corporate world, for that matter) have been saying all this for some time. We know that gender bias is pervasive. Yet our observations are routinely dismissed by men (and some anti-feminist women) who claim that we are unable to accurately assess our environment. Which is rich, since it's the reverse that is obviously true: men, particularly white men, are the ones who are blind to the social realities. They sail through life totally unaware of the enormous privilege they enjoy purely by virtue of being male. And then, having convinced themselves that they really did hit that triple, they stand up and tell women that the reason there aren't more females in the sciences is not because of ten thousand years of patriarchy, not because the modern feminist revolution is barely 40 years old, not because of a massive and pervasive gender bias that privileges men—but because of innate differences between male and female brains."
You really must go over and read the rest at Reclusive Leftist.
And finally... there is a new satirical blogger in our midst: Phemisaurus Terribilis serves up her own brand of feminist humor at They Thought I Was Extinct.
Self-described as a "masked avenger of the feminist blogosphere", the anonymous blogger skewers patriarchy via a small plastic dinosaur. You've got to see it to believe it!
Hat-tip for this link to Screaming into the Void.
Photo credit: They Thought I Was Extinct
BlogHer Contributing Editor Melinda Casino also writes at Sour Duck.
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