12 Podcasts to Obsess Over If You Like ‘You’re Wrong About’
Image: Podcast logo The Bechdel Test is a criteria first developed by cartoonist Alison Bechdel in the ‘80s to assess gender bias in fiction. To pass the test, a work…
Viral Video Of Sexist Question To Two Prime Ministers
Ardern and Marin were taken aback when a reporter suggested they met as they were both young women (File)It’s the first time a Finnish prime minister visited the prime minister…
There’s No Such Thing As a ‘Normal’ Body Count
A lot like “virginity,” a “body count” is an arbitrary metric used to define a person’s sexual experiences in a rudimentary way, simply referring to how many people someone has…
The Sexist Pseudoscience at the Heart of Biology
For years, studying zoology made me feel like a sad misfit. Not because I loved spiders, enjoyed cutting up dead things I’d found by the side of the road, or…
15 Great Feminist Movies That Fail the Bechdel Test
Screenshot: Fargo/Prime Video A recent Twitter dustup called into question the whole point of the Bechdel test, a set of criteria to help gauge the representation of women in popular…
With Crude Hema Malini Analogy, Maharashtra Minister Joins Hall Of Shame
Actor Hema Malini is the BJP MP from Mathura (File)Mumbai: Token efforts to weed out the embedded misogyny in Indian political circles suffered yet another blow this week when a…
French Court Orders Twitter To Reveal Anti-Hate Speech Efforts
Six anti-discrimination groups had taken Twitter to court in France last year. (Representational)Paris, France: A French court on Tuesday ordered Twitter to give activists full access to all of its…
Why Are There So Few Women in Wargaming?
Becky Esteness was fed up. She was at a local wargaming convention, where enthusiasts schlep their pewter armies to beige conference halls for a long, meditative weekend of stone cold…
How defining women as baby-makers backfired spectacularly on science
In Guynecology, Rene Almeling argues that moving away from gendered ideas about reproduction could improve our health and transform our societies Health 26 August 2020 By Jessica Hamzelou Men’s reproductive…
The Lady Astronaut series tackles historical sexism brilliantly
Two recent books imagine a different history of science, but one handles the prejudices of the time much better than the other, says Jacob Aron Space 5 August 2020 By…