I’ve been spending time recently trying to understand is how it’s possible for people to overlook the harm their political stance is causing. These people aren’t sociopaths, but they can ignore the injustice of “let’s talk about the looting, not the murders” and the real harm (including deaths!) being caused by “open early” and “I…
This story makes me unbearably angry. I mean, obviously what a woman wears cannot be consent – but even if it could, even if we accept that ridiculously corrupt and intellectually bankrupt argument as completely true… it still doesn’t mean that she consented to him. I don’t care if someone shows up to a bar…
My friend Meghan Hyland pointed this video out to me a couple days ago. Here’s how I responded to Meghan: “Brilliant stuff, Meghan. I love the mix of openness, brutal self-awareness, and calm empathy, spiced with a delicately fierce brand of humor. Thanks for sharing, I’m certainly going to check out more of her stuff.”…
I’ve seen a lot of conspiracy theories that Facebook or Google are eavesdropping on our conversations. And there’s been a lot of mockery over the privacy concerns about people putting the Amazon Echo into their living room. But at the same time people seem totally fine with carrying a camera and microphone around with them…
Language is interesting. I just learned, uncited on Quora, but I choose to believe it because I want to… The modern word female is not derived from the modern word male. In fact, female derives from the latin word “femina,” from which we retain the idea of feminine; male derives from the latin word “masculus,”…
So what does that mean, “a social construct?” I think of it as something that a group tacitly agrees to think, do, or believe which is exists solely because of that agreement. You can sometimes tell if something is a social construct by evaluating if it varies significantly between different groups. For example, the concept…
Dunbar’s number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person. Informally, this is “the number of people you would not feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a…
