Tag Archives: gender

sexism and the equality of persons

This post at Over­com­ing Bias caught my eye the other day: I Am Sex­ist Basi­cally, Robin Han­son points out that a com­mon def­i­n­i­tion and usage of “sex­ism” — hav­ing a “belief or atti­tude that one gen­der or sex is infe­rior to, less com­pe­tent, or less valu­able than the other” is flawed. It makes sci­en­tific obser­va­tion

madeleine albright thinks I'm going to hell

The other day, I saw a Madeleine Albright quote in my Twit­ter time­line. I don’t know if this Time mag­a­zine inter­view is the orig­i­nal source, but this is the quote (bold): What advice do you have for women who want respect from their male col­leagues? Dana Philbin, CHICAGO Women have to be active lis­ten­ers and