Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Tuesday roundup

Argentinian women have had it with violent machismo.

Can the Indian government yoga away the gay?

Right-wing extremists are a real threat (wild as the ideology appears, I have a friend who actually subscribes to it).

Some things can and should be medicated; libido is not one of them, no matter how many "feminists" the pharmaceutical industry coopts.

Before you jump into an online (or IRL) conversation about marginilization, read this.

Michael Eisen on why Tim Hunt's mistake wasn't so harmless or innocent:

When I am thinking about what happened here, I am not thinking about how Twitter hordes brought down a good man because he had a bad day. I am instead thinking about what it says to the women in that room in Kashmir that this leading man of science – who it was clear everybody at the meeting revered – had listened to their stories and absorbed nothing. It is unconscionable that, barely a month after listening to a women moved to tears as she recounted a sexual assault from a senior colleague and how hard it was for her to regain her career, Hunt would choose to mock women in science as teary love interests. 
Another great response here.

Keep your antsy kid out of nice restaurants.

Dudes: we ladies love it when you take initiative and plan things. It's irresistable.

The gif at the bottom of the story says it all.


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