All Posts From the Category: Bias (Institutional, Cultural)

Bigoted board members at Sydney University block formation of men’s health group

Surprised? I'm not. Here's the news (my comments are interspersed): For the first time in over a decade, the Board of the University of Sydney Union (USU) has rejected an application for a new student society. Good heavens, has it really been over ten years? What extreme actions was this group engaging in? [...]

Chancellor Rebecca Chopp: why does the University of Denver honor Radical Feminist Robin Morgan?

Publisher's note: the following letter is addressed to Dr. Rebecca Chopp, chancellor at the University of Denver, who took her position there in mid-2014. Before this she was president of Swarthmore College, and is named nineteen times in a January 2014 lawsuit by John Doe alleging he was wrongly expelled three months [...]

08/27/2014|Bias (Institutional, Cultural)|

No, Yvette Cooper, teaching misandry in British schools will not solve teens’ problems

From the Daily Mail, a UK publication, we hear this: Schoolboys need to have lessons in feminism to help teach them out to treat women, Labour claims. That is like saying we need schools to teach white nationalism to help curb gang violence. Compulsory sex education classes should be held [...]

Ben Sullivan, and things they do (slightly) differently in the UK

President of Oxford Union not charged with rape due to lack of evidence Ben Sullivan, the president of the Oxford Union, will not be charged as a result of allegations of rape and attempted rape due to insufficient evidence.  Thankfully for him, this will be the end of the matter as [...]

Wearing Thinner: The “But Men Get the Majority of Stem Degrees” Deflection

Welcome, dear readers. School is now in session. Before we begin the lecture please do a brief preclass exercise by spending a minute taking a hard look at this set of graphs on graduation rates by sex over the past forty years: Source: National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, Table [...]

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