Posts tagged “Equality”
Too poor to pay taxes
Conservatives I know keep bitching about how half of Americans don’t pay taxes.* I think their position here is kind of horrible: they see “46% of Americans don’t pay federal income taxes” and demand that they pay “their fair share.”** Isn’t a better question why are half of Americans so poor they can’t pay income […]
Another reason not to read Willpower
I’ve criticized Baumeister and Tierney’s Willpower for it’s lack of substance. It’s also pretty sexist. Sir Henry Morton Stanley is introduced as a paragon of self-control with these lines: If self-control is partly a hereditary trait – which seems likely – then Stanley began life with the genetic odds against him. He was born in […]
ESA Interviews – Juliana Mulroy
I interviewed awesome ecologists at the 2011 Ecological Society of America meeting in exchange for reader donations, which paid for my conference attendance. This is one in a series of posts about those interviews. Last year at ESA I interviewed a bunch of awesome ecologists and promised to blog about those interviews. I wrote up five of […]
A most Impudent School-Mistress of Alexandria
You know you’ve lived life well when the Christians start calling you names. See The History of Hypatia, a most Impudent School-Mistress of Alexandria: Murder’d and torn to Pieces by the Populace, in Defence of Saint Cyril and the Alexandrian Clergy from the Aspersions of Mr. Toland.
Santa baby
Based on the title, I bet you expected this to be a post about shoes. It isn’t, but now that you’re all excited, I’d hate to disappoint: As lovely as these shoes are, they aren’t what you should get me for Christmas. What I’d really like is an end to street harassment. When I put […]
Big City Pride
The Pride Festivals I attended before this weekend were literally walled off events. The festival would rent part of a city park and surround it with chain link fence, then plaster the fence with signs. You couldn’t see in or out. These events were trying to carve out a safe space and do a little […]
Street Harrassment
Tonight is artwalk in my town and the sidewalks are full of people making their way downtown for free wine and cheese and bad Western art. I was enjoying the small town atmosphere and pleasant weather when the first guy leaned out his car window to comment on my ass. I was wondering what to […]